Proofreading Exercises
Learn how to proofread by working through our library of proofreading exercises.
- Post author By Duncan Croker
- Post date August 24, 2020
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In a digital world, it’s more important than ever to make sure your communications are error-free – you don’t want to be responsible for a press release that goes viral because of an awkward misspelling.
That’s why we’ve put together this collection of proofreading exercises to test your skills. Work your way up through the difficulty levels until you feel confident that you’ve mastered the required proofreading skills.
Download each exercise PDF to get started, then print it out or copy-paste it into Microsoft Word; once you’ve finished editing, cross-check the mistakes you found with the relevant answer sheet.
Answer sheets follow AP Stylebook conventions (where appropriate) and use British spelling. New proofreading exercises will be regularly added to this page. Note that the original sources contain the correct text – all mistakes have been added in for the purposes of the exercises.
Easy Proofreading Exercise 1
Exercise details.
Format: News Article
Source: ‘NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance hits back after claims Sydney ferries won’t fit under bridges.’
Easy Proofreading Exercise 2
Source: ‘Now is the time to buy in the Melbourne property market.’
Easy Proofreading Exercise 3
Format: Blog Post
Source: How to Find the Noosa Fairy Pools
Easy Proofreading Exercise 4
Source: Marketing for Small Businesses
Medium Proofreading Exercise 1
Format: Annual Report
Source: Rio Tinto Annual Report 2019 – Strategic Report
Medium Proofreading Exercise 2
Source: The 11 Best Foods to Support Your Immune System
Medium Proofreading Exercise 3
Format: Online Article
Source: A Better Way to Map Brand Strategy
Medium Proofreading Exercise 4
Format: Online Publication
Source: Telstra s 87B Undertaking
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Hard Proofreading Exercise 1
Format: Academic Journal
Source: Passafaro, P. (2020). Attitudes and Tourists’ Sustainable Behavior: An Overview of the Literature and Discussion of Some Theoretical and Methodological Issues. Journal of Travel Research, 59 (4), 579–601. DOI: 10.1177/0047287519851171
Hard Proofreading Exercise 2
Source: Demirkol, S., & Cifci, I. (2020). Delving into the Role of Celebrity Chefs and Gourmets in Culinary Destination Marketing. European Journal of Tourism Research, 26 , 2603. https://ejtr.vumk.eu/index.php/about/article/view/1934
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Duncan is a copywriter with a background in editing and storytelling. He loves collaborating with brands big and small, and thrives on the challenges of hard marketing.
4 comments on “Proofreading Exercises”
This is great. It’s really helpful to see practical exercises. Thanks for putting this together!
Fantastic exercises, thank you for providing these!
These exercises have been really great. Thank you. I’m using them with my A level student in preparation for University where proofreading will be essential! The content is just right for his interest level too and short enough to keep his interest.
Hi Geraldine, it’s great to hear you and your student are finding the exercises helpful. We’ll hopefully add some more in the near future.
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Paragraph correction worksheets terms of use, beginning level paragraph correction worksheets.
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- Beginning Paragraph Correction Worksheet 1
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Intermediate Level Paragraph Correction Worksheets
- Answer Key - This is the answer key to intermediate level worksheets.
- Intermediate Paragraph Correction Worksheet 1
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Advanced Level Paragraph Correction Worksheets
- Answer Key - This is the answer key to advanced level worksheets.
- Advanced Paragraph Correction Worksheet 1
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View PDF. Proofreading: Halloween Scare. This funny paragraph has mistakes in spelling, contractions, quotation marks, and homophones (to/too/two) 2nd through 4th Grades. View PDF. Proofreading: Miniature Golf. This worksheet has mistakes in spelling, capitalization, commas, and indenting. 2nd through 4th Grades.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Yao Dao Primary School P5 English 2019-2020 2nd term Worksheet (connectives) Name: _____( ) Class: P5 _____ Sally is doing a proofreading exercise. Underline the mistakes and help her to correct the errors by using the correct connectives. e.g.
Below you'll find our lists of printable paragraph correction worksheets. On these worksheets, students must choose the best way to correct errors highlighted in the given paragraph. They are tested on their knowledge of punctuation, spelling, syntax, symmetry, vocabulary, and verb tense usage. Each paragraph correction worksheet is 8 questions ...
Download File. These free proofreading practice exercises are suitable for adults and children, including key-stage 4 pupils, keystage 5 pupils, high-school students, middle-school students, college students, university students and ESL students. And if you don't find these exercises particularly challenging, it could be you're a proofreading ...
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of mistakes you may miss when proofreading your own work. That means you should practise with similar activities as often as you can. You should also take special care to check this aspect when proof reading your own work. Activity Three First identify the type of mistake in the passage, then correct the 10 mistakes. Russell blanched for a moment.
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Proofreading Exercise 5 Welcome to ESL Printables , the website where English Language teachers exchange resources: worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc. Our collection is growing every day with the help of many teachers.
This fantastic resource offers three different activities to test your children's abilities with proofreading. Each activity asks children to read the passage, identify the type of mistake within it, and then correct the mistakes.The three activities feature a passage from the same story, but they have different kinds of mistakes and a different amount of mistakes for children to identify. In ...
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