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01/06/2020

A recent customer testimonial!

"Great service and fast turnaround time. I have used a bunch of different proofreading services ..."

04/08/2019

New Blog Post!

I never intended to become an independent contract proofreader, working from a lounge chair in a tropical forest on the Pacific coast of Mexico. But I love words and water, so that's what happened.

01/12/2019

A while back, Julia H. wrote a post about the challenges of writing idiomatic English, particularly for non-native speakers. This time, we’ll consider a phenomenon that trips up even native speakers. Indeed, it has its origins in the spoken language and the imprecise way in which it sometimes tran...

12/04/2018

We’ve all been there. We’re writing along, solidly in the groove, when the Formatting Wall appears around a seemingly safe corner. Abruptly halting, you wonder: How the heck am I supposed to format this title?

11/20/2018

11/15/2018

A new blog post from ProofreadingPal!

Sometimes the word you want isn’t in the dictionary; that’s why there are so many dictionaries. Everybody has a preferred resource for determining spelling and usage. Here at ProofreadingPal, we default to the current version of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary as our reference for Amer...

08/16/2018

A new blog post from ProofreadingPal!

I spend a lot of my editing hours at ProofreadingPal dealing with wayward italics, so let's talk about times when they are used properly and when they aren't.

03/16/2018

Here's a new blog post from our new owner, ProofreadingPal.com!

http://proofreadingpal.com/proofreading-pulse/editing-tools/3-tips-for-using-a-thesaurus/

When used correctly, a thesaurus can help you punch up your writing by using just the right word when you want it. Here's three times a thesaurus can come to

11/27/2017

ProofreadingPal continues to believe two sets of eyes are better than one, and that’s why we remain one of the few editing services that employ a two-proofreader model for documents under 15,000 words. After careful consideration, we are pleased to announce we have reduced our per-word rates to keep...

08/29/2017

Special Thanks to You -

Thank you for being a loyal ProofreadingPal customer. We have been able to work with over 11,500 unique customers from over 63 countries during the past seven and a half years. Our once little proofreading and editing business with just one employee and five proofreaders has grown to nine employees…

08/09/2017

Here's a new blog post from our new owner, ProofreadingPal.com!

Since January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has been an informative, chaotic maelstrom of information online. Since January 16, 2001, it's been viewed with skepticism, s