Technical Proofreading

Technical proofreading is not for the faint hearted. The proofreader who believes the sole purpose of their job is to add as much punctuation as possible and then run a spell and grammar check has no place proof reading technical documentation.

A Technical proofreader has to be aware that the document might be translated or read by someone whose language skills is not that good. They must accept that it is good practice to simplify everything and use the same words over again.

Factual content must also be checked, ensure that conversions of measurements for distance and temperature are accurate and that numerical punctuation is explained, for example a comma (,) in English represents a division of thousands, for example 1,000 but a comma in most other European languages denotes the decimal point. This could be quite significant if we are talking about accuracy to the Nth degree.

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