5 tips for blog- editing and proofreading

Given the widespread nature of the Internet, it’s easy for anyone to blog online. This means that any individual has the ability to engage with millions of people at once. While this comes with many clear advantages, the importance of properly proofreading and editing blog posts is often overlooked. Proofreading and editing services offer a convenient and rapid way to improve your blog post, but it is also important to know how to complete these tasks yourself, should you ever need to do so. Therefore, this article presents a few tips that you can follow to ensure that your blog posts are edited and proofread in the most effective way.

 

1. Editing for context

Depending on who you are, the tone and style of language that you use should be different. Furthermore, blog posts express something about an individual’s personality, and so it is all the more important to pay attention to the question of tone and style. The fact that any other person can find your blog post and read it online should also cause you to guard your personal details. With these issues in mind, you should edit your writing to remove thoughts, ideas, and phrases that you may not really want an audience to read.

 

2. Check your facts

There are no gatekeepers to publishing an article on the Internet. For this reason, you are not required to use citations or references in your article, and you do not have to conform to a specific writing or formatting style. Nevertheless, one of the basic requirements is to ensure that all the factual statements given in your blog post are accurate and correct. Therefore, as you proofread and edit your blog post before publishing it, remember to Google any of the factual statements you make.

 

3. Concision is key

When you write, edit, and proofread your blog post, try to think about what you want to see as a reader. If you do, you’ll quickly become aware that the shorter, the better. You may be familiar with the abbreviation “TL;DR” (“too long; didn’t read”), which is often used to indicate that the length of a blog post is excessive. If you’ve seen this phrase being used online, you’ll know what it signals as a reader, and so as a writer and editor, you should try not to fall into the trap. Do not fill in the gaps with, repetetive, padded out sentences and paragraphs.

 

4. Read your blog post backward

This is an age-old trick in the proofreading community. It might sound like something an inexperienced person would do to ensure that they proofread their work correctly. However, even the most experienced proofreaders still use the backward-reading technique to improve their accuracy.