proofreader
- noun
- /ˈpruːfˌriːdər/
- A good proofreader will often catch errors that even the writer overlooks in their work.
- proofreader and editor
So you have to go from being a novel writer to actually being ChatGPT proofreader and then curator of creative content.
- So you have to go from being a novel writer to actually being ChatGPT proofreader and then curator of creative content.
- I want people to act as proofreaders, but I don't want them, since they are my friends, to be unnecessarily nice.
- And then what ended up being a fan favorite, proofreader favorite.
- Hire a proofreader that's like that should be writing one-on-one for anybody, anywhere.
Examples
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"Look, sir, there's a vacancy in one of the proofreader positions," the eyeglasses man said.
Fiction book (2002) -
The remaining 39 transcriptions were then independently reviewed by both the researcher and the proofreader.
Academic text (2009) -
Anyway, did he expect me to decide whether or not I wanted to work as a proofreader?
Fiction book (2002) -
And what about the old proofreader that left, who was now working somewhere else as an accountant?
Fiction book (2002) -
Still, I have a great editor, proofreader, cover artist, and layout person.
Blog text (4) -
A minute before, he had said there were no job openings; now he said there was an opening as a proofreader.
Fiction book (2002) -
Publishers routinely use proofreaders, but Google does not want to pay individual attention to books.
Blog text (25) -
The researcher and the certified proofreader then reviewed the scoring rubric together.
Academic text (2009) -
Finally, in 1923, after years of religious study, Singer left the seminary to become a proofreader and eventually a translator for a literary magazine.
Fiction book (1999) -
An author creates a manuscript, and the publishing process—the interaction between proofreaders, editors, and designers—creates a book's final form.
Blog text (22)
Synonyms
A person who checks and corrects grammar, spelling, and style in written text before it is published
A person who checks text for errors or a machine that lets dough rise
A person or tool that finds and fixes mistakes in writing
A person who checks and corrects writing before it is published
A person who checks and corrects text before publishing
A person who checks and corrects articles before they are published
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Proofreader comes from the two parts proof and reader, where proof was a 'test copy' of a text and reader is 'someone who reads'. So a proofreader is someone who reads that test copy to find and fix mistakes before the work is published.