The objective of this course is to provide you with the expertise and the tools you need to create nice related articles and writing to a high level. If you incorporate all the recommendations into a profile of a professional freelance writer, you'll be ahead of 90% of the rest of the ground. But before we move on into learning how to create these content styles for any particular niche, we need to talk a little bit more about overall quality. If I were to write down the important attributes of a successful freelance writer, it would look something like this. Of course on time delivery, and fulfilling customer requirements are important, as is over delivery, and communication. But if you scan down the list, you can see one feature That is really important to me, and it should be to use.
That feature is quality, quality in everything you do. Of course, overall quality is a combination of all of these elements, but it starts with the quality of your return work before the client sees your work needs to be of the very highest quality. The first line of defense for improving your quality is proofreading. proofreading not only includes spell checking, but also grammar, punctuation, the structure of your sentences and overall flow and readability. The following tools will help to improve your writing and ratio work up to the next level. Whichever word processor you decide to use, you will need extra tools to check spelling and grammar.
If you purchase word 360 Five, then these are not strictly necessary. That said, a double check is always a good idea, and it doesn't take long. Remember your quality grammar checkers can either be standalone programs installed on your computer, or accessed online. The best of these not only detect and point out errors, but also suggest improvements to your text. Grammarly is a very popular tool for freelancers, as it checks for multiple types of errors, spelling, grammar, and context. It also detects problems with sentence structure, and missing punctuation.
Errors can be corrected manually or automatically as you wish The pay to has a free option with reduced features. If you can afford the monthly subscription is a great tool that will definitely help raise your written quality standards. Slick right is a free online application that analyzes your writing, providing various reports on word usage and readability. It's a very useful tool for indicating over usage of common words and other structural issues that we generally don't think about. These issues can make your writing difficult to read. Among the extensive features, our readability index, according to us grades, sentence length and estimated reading time Language tool is another online proofreading tool with a free option and the distinctly different feature.
It can operate in 20 different languages. Not only that, but it can auto detect the input language. error detection is color coded. Simply click on the highlighted word to see the advice for corrections or replacements. There's even an option to add it to open office, which is a free word processor. This is the LIBOR office options shown on the screen.
The tools discussed give you a good capability as far as proofreading your basic articles go. But your arsenal of tools is not yet complete. Once you've produced your work, you need to communicate and organize. In the next lecture, we look at tools that will help you to do that.