Most Common Dissertation Proofreading Mistakes

Dissertation Proofreading is a process of correction and perfection for your Ph.D., but, like any process, it can have been vulnerable to errors. The aim of proofreading dock and Dissertation proofreading especially – is to seek out the errors during a document and to correct them with civil discourse, so it’s perhaps alarming to hear that the method of correction can itself be subject to error.. Unfortunately, this is often the case, and there’s only really a method to minimize the danger of proofreading error the maximum amount as possible; to seek out the simplest proofreader possible. 

Spelling Mistakes:

 The easiest error for a proofreader to form is to miss minor errors which will not be highlighted by a spell-checker because they’re, in a sense, correct. These errors are usually typos or that happen to form other words that are also correct like ‘lead’ without the ‘a’ as ‘led’, or mistyping ‘has’ as ‘as’. Such mistakes are easy for anyone to form. Even the simplest proofreader’s fingers might slip while she is typing and may be corrected only with rigorous checking and a keen eye for detail.

Inconsistency:

 Similarly, other forms of error aren’t particularly obvious. Most important is inconsistency, that could be it in spelling, referencing style, or grammatical choices. Inconsistency seems minor, but are often very irritating to a marker if she notices it. Examples would include using the serial or ‘Oxford’ comma (the comma that occurs before the last item in a list) sometimes but not all the time or variably separating author name and date within the brackets of in-text Harvard style references. Again, spotting these errors requires a very high level of care, concentration, and competence on the part of the proofreader. These are no obvious mistakes, and the proofreader needs to have the faculty to make a checklist of the styles chosen within the document to make sure that they’re equivalent throughout. The other sorts of common Dissertation proofreading errors takes place not due to distraction, but due to incompetence, and are for that reason far less forgivable in away.

Grammatical Mistakes:

 Proofreaders who aren’t of the specified standard are susceptible to miss spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, wrongly used homophones, misplaced apostrophes, pronoun agreements, and an entire host of other things that it’s the task of the proofreader to get rid of. Such errors are particularly pronounced in Dissertation proofreading, where additional qualifications are required: Dissertation proofreading must be conducted by a English proofreading service with experience in Dissertation writing, which may be idiosyncratic. A proofreader without this familiarity is prone to ‘correct’ things that are correct in Dissertation writing but seem strange in other kinds of writing, resulting in a document with needless errors. There is one simple way to avoid these kinds of errors/mistakes in your writing. Work with a highly qualified and highly experienced proofreader(in area of your thesis)!

Human error:

 In short, then, there are two major categories of general proofreading error: minor mistakes which will be described as human error, and major mistakes that result from the inabilities of the proofreader. The first category of error is a red alert. If only people could be perfect! 

But we do everything we can to mitigate it, firstly by asking our proofreaders to check over their work thoroughly, and secondly by instigating our own rigorous quality control system to ensure that all the work is checked multiple times so that we can return it to you error-free.