I have a confession to make: with a colleague, I proofread secondary-school reports. Not OFSTED reports – the ones that schools send home to students and their parents. I say ‘confession’ because when I mention this to friends and family,…
Monthly Archives: Oct 2017
School proofreading: Do teachers need a safety net too?
Tagged with: report writing, School proofreading, school reports, teachers
Posted in School proofreading
Posted in School proofreading
Six ways to improve your author–date (Harvard) reference list
If you’re writing a PhD thesis, your reference list could be longer than an entire journal article. Taming that monster can be tedious, but it’s worth taking the time to get it right. A reference list that looks cared for…
Tagged with: APA referencing, author-date referencing, CSE referencing, dissertations, Harvard referencing, theses
Posted in Academic writing
Posted in Academic writing
Desk bikes – the Tour de Your House
Last Wednesday was National Fitness Day in the UK. Keeping fit’s a doddle if you work from home, isn’t it? You start the day with yoga. Go swimming at lunchtime. On sunny days you put down your pen (or keyboard)…
Tagged with: desk bike, desk cycle, editing, freelancing, proofreading, Wellbeing, Working from home
Posted in Wellbeing, Working from home
Posted in Wellbeing, Working from home
Laura Ripper | Copy-editing and Proofreading 