The Difference Between Copyediting and Proofreading
Countless times throughout your editing career, a client will ask you to “proofread” something. Then they’ll send you a Microsoft Word document full of grammatical errors, inconsistent capitalization, and heading styles that change from chapter to chapter. They don’t want proofreading; they want copyediting. And if you don’t know the difference between copyediting and proofreading,…
