Product Description

Learn all the secrets of successful freelancing for publishers. The Pocket Book of Proofreading is a powerful new guide to earning your own living as a freelance proofreader. No previous experience required, work full or part time. A total of 26 chapters, plus appendices, glossary, index, and practical exercises make this a very useful 'pocket' book, just right for anyone considering freelance proofreading. You can learn about copy-editing too. It's a complete professional guide for only £14.99, plus you can download some mind-stretching proofreading exercises direct to your own computer! (Instant file download - PDF) Learn how to earn around £20 an hour with this new book and course.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34641 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-01
• Format: Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 262 pages

From the Publisher
The Pocket Book of Proofreading is just right. It offers so much more for much less. Learn the secrets of successful proofreading and freelancing for publishers, and how to earn extra income from home.

The optional instant file download (PDF) is a professional three-part proofreading and copy-editing course with free extra exercises. Uses BS 5261C:2005 (marks for copy preparation and proof correction).

The Pocket Book of Proofreading offers a comprehensive overview of freelancing for publishers and working as a freelance proofreader.

Note: If this book were simply turned into A4 pages and made into a proofreading and editing course (which in fact it actually was originally), it would make a course that could be sold at the same price as existing proofreading courses on the market. Hence the value of this popular book.

From the Author
The Pocket Book of Proofreading contains 262 pages and is complete as it is. You don't realy need anything more. If you are keen to learn more, however, the book tells you how to access a new downloadable proofreading and copy-editing course with FREE extra exercises (approximately 170 A4 pages, making a total of 432 pages!). It's all you need.

Learn Freelancing and its associated website offers a professional and comprehensive proofreading course, and you can learn about copy-editing too.

Many people have been successful as a result of taking this proofreading and editing course, and have found regular work as freelances, working from home full or part time, or are now working in-house for publishing companies.

There is competition naturally, so you need the best possible start. You'll find this with The Pocket Book of Proofreading.
NOTE: the book was proofread and copy-edited by a distinguished advanced member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), so you can sure of the quality and relevance of this material.

From the Back Cover
Learn the secrets of successful freelancing for publishers...

The Pocket Book of Proofreading is a powerful new guide to earning your own living as a freelance proofreader. You can 'read and make money' (around £20 an hour). No previous experience required, work full or part time.

The Pocket Book of Proofreading is also an essential book for every occasion where good English is really important whether you're writing a letter, an essay, composing a report, or perhaps even preparing a thesis.

This book will show you how to become a freelance proofreader, how to work from home as a freelance, and how to download a series of mind-stretching exercises so you can practise and progress your skills! This unique three-part course is available only online.

The Pocket Book of Proofreading is just right. It offers so much more for much less. Learn the secrets of successful proofreading and copy-editing for publishers, and how to earn extra income from home.

Customer Reviews

Good things do come in small packages!
I have been "doing a bit" of proofreading and copy-editing over the years. I have paid over two hundred pounds for a correspondence course and bought several hallowed tomes on the subject.

William Critchley has done a fantastic job of writing this excellent book. It covers everything I did on my correspondence course and brought the material fully up to date. It is a much friendlier read than some of the other books I have read on the subject.

There really is everything you need to become or improve as a freelance proofreader or copy-editor. The online material is an excellent adjunct to the book (and is very reasonably priced.) There is even email support should you require help.

There is a wealth of knowledge from someone who really has been there and done that! I highly recommend this fantastic resource and I shall refer to mine often.

Pocket Rocket!
This is a very useful skip through the various elements of proofreading.It provides guidance and advice, suggested further reading and must have books for those with serious professional aspirations.The humour helps keep the pages turning.Well worth the money.

The Pocket Book of Proofreading
An excellent book, it has made me consider my written work more carefully and look at books from the perspective of a copy-editor/proofreader. I have learnt so much and I hope it will improve my written work.