Saving Time and Taking Your Time with Spell-Checkers

Complete trust in your spell-checker can land you in trouble. Here’s a New York Times article with two words that should be a single word:

A comprehensive survey released last month … revealed that while the publishing industry had expanded over all, publishers’ mass-market paperback sales had fallen 14 percent since 2008.

An overall success is far more modest than triumphing overall competitors. Spell-checkers can’t recognize this kind of context in your sentences. That’s why it’s important to carefully proofread your documents, testing them word by word.

Spell-checkers save time, but they require patience. Clicking Ignore All once too often in a Word file can mean that repeated misspellings remain in your published document.

Misspellings can distract your readers and diminish your credibility. But careful spell-checking and proofreading can help you keep your readers’ attention and their respect.

Do you have an important document but not enough time to double-check your spelling and grammar? Just use Write It Well’s editing services to make sure your readers follow your ideas and respect your voice.

Write It Well’s book Essential Grammar includes a chapter on commonly misspelled and misused words, including twelve proofreading tips.

We’ve made all the book’s exercises available as a free download here to accompany the e-book, which is now available on Amazon.com!