Legal Proofreading Skills
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This course teaches essential legal proofreading skills
Legal proofreaders must master the same skills that are needed to improve general business writing: learning legal proofreading skills to identify errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, word usage, and sentence structure. However, legal proofreading requires additional skills, like correcting citations and the consistent use of defined names and legal terms.
We developed this legal proofreading course in partnership with a large legal firm to provide a grounding in core legal proofreading techniques while emphasizing the skills that legal proofreaders need.
Course Highlights
- Review all the important rules for language, grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and word usage
- Learn effective proofreading principles and techniques
- Learn how to locate errors and correct them
- Learn the correct formats for citations
- Learn how to check consistency and correctness of defined terms
Course Description
This course begins with a review of general legal proofreading principles and techniques, including thorough explanations of the proofreading process. We thoroughly review basic English usage to help you spot the kind of errors that even experienced proofreaders may miss. Then we continue with a review of English usage and end with lessons on legal definitions and checking legal citations.
When You Complete This Course...
- You will know the most important rules for correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, word usage, and sentence structure and how to identify them in the legal documents you proofread.
- You will have command of the basics of legal proofreading.
- You will be prepared to deal easily with the specific proofreading challenges of legal work.
- You will know how to proofread legal documents methodically for more accurate, correct results.
How It Works
Work Online
When you enroll, we give you access to all the online lessons and training materials. Each lesson builds on the lessons that precede it. We offer clear explanations for every part of our training and plenty of real-world examples of how to apply the skills you are learning.
Set Your Own Pace
You go at your own pace and submit assignments when you are ready. You don’t have to be online with other students or perform activities at specific times.
Instructor Feedback
Your instructor evaluates all your work, coaches you through learning the skills, and gives you personalized feedback on what you are doing well and what still needs polish. You can contact your instructor at any time if you have questions about your training, business writing, or the English language.
Certificate
When you finish the course within four months, you receive a graduation certificate.
Course Outline
Course pre-test
Lesson 1: Proofreading principles
Lesson 2: Proofreading techniques
Practice diagnostic test
Lesson 3: Omissions, additions, typos
Lesson 4: Number accuracy
Lesson 5: Transposition errors
Lesson 6: Abbreviations
Session 1 Optional Practice
Session 1 Diagnostic Test
Lesson 6: Abbreviations
Lesson 7: Word division
Lesson 8: Number expression
Lesson 9: Capitalization
Session 2 Diagnostic Test
Lesson 10: Commas
Lesson 11: Other punctuation
Lesson 12: Special punctuation
Lesson 13: Spelling
Lesson 14: Confusing words
Session 3 Diagnostic Test
Lesson 15: Subject/verb agreement
Lesson 16: Pronoun agreement
Lesson 17: Using defined terms consistently
Lesson 18: Checking citations
Lesson 19: Proofreading for format
Session 4 Diagnostic Test
Course post-test
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Writing Coaching by Dr. Robert Hogan
Dr. Hogan has been training writers for 40 years in universities, colleges of business, consulting companies, and professional writing companies.
Learn more about Dr. Hogan.Course Features
Course Materials: Online
Certificate upon Completion: Yes
Instructor Feedback: Yes
Letter of Recommendation: Yes
Lesson Count: 19
Practice Activities: 5
Exams: 21
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