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. There are many testimonials to be found at LearnFreelancing.com.
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.
Use as a reference book on your Kindle or, if you have or can learn the skills, earn extra income from home. It's a complete professional guide for just £7.20 (saving over 50% on the paperback price), plus you can choose later, if you wish, to download some additional proofreading exercises.
Learn how to earn £20 plus per hour with this new book (and course). Still right up to date for this year (2013). It contains helpful information about publishing, working as a freelance proofreader and/or copy-editor, with a complete list of current proofreading marks - and how to use them!
It comes with free exercises to work on, and you can also download a professional proofreading and editing course online if required.
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.
Use as a reference book on your Kindle or, if you have or can learn the skills, earn extra income from home. It's a complete professional guide for just £7.20 (saving over 50% on the paperback price), plus you can choose later, if you wish, to download some additional proofreading exercises.
Learn how to earn £20 plus per hour with this new book (and course). Still right up to date for this year (2013). It contains helpful information about publishing, working as a freelance proofreader and/or copy-editor, with a complete list of current proofreading marks - and how to use them!
It comes with free exercises to work on, and you can also download a professional proofreading and editing course online if required.
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.
