Proofreading tips and symbols for supervisors
This post answers a request from supervisors at the Department of Science, Information Technology, Information and the Arts (DSITIA) who were looking for tips on proofreading for their teams.…
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Instructions
When you’re writing instructions or procedures, remember that your readers are just like you: they hate reading instructions. Mostly they are reading them just before they need to use them. They may be feeling anxious or they…
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When people with English as their first language ask me for help with tenses, it usually means they have been corrected at work for switching tenses.
For example, they have switched from past to present tense in one sentence like this:
When…
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Proofreading tips and symbols for supervisors
Write instructions or procedures
Watch your tenses