online class in legal proofreading

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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Dr. Hogan

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.

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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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