WordSharp Editing and Proofreading

Doctoral dissertation editing, proofreading and APA

PROOFREADING
agreement errors
adjective and adverb use
beginning a sentence with a conjunction
comparison of absolute adjectives
countable and uncountable nouns
countable and uncountable quantifiers
dangling modifiers
double negatives
duplicate pronouns
faulty parallelisms
gerund/infinitive use
incomplete comparisons
infinitives without ‘to’
limiting modifiers
misuse of ‘like’ and ‘as’
misuse of ‘much’
misuse of quantifiers
misuse of subordinate clauses
misuse of ‘these’ and ‘those’
missing question marks
modal verb use errors
noun strings
preposition at the end of a sentence
pronoun-antecedent agreement
pronoun case agreement
redundant pairs of words
run-on sentences
sentence fragments
sequence of tense
sequence of words
squinting modifiers
subject-verb disagreement
unbalanced or misplaced punctuation
unnecessary infinitive clauses
use of articles
use of ‘other’ and ‘another’
use of subjunctive
vague pronoun references
verb choice
verb form use
verb tense
wordiness caused by circumlocution
wordiness caused by determiners and modifiers
wrong prepositions

Punctuation Examples
comma splices
comma usage
commas after introductory clauses
proper end-of-sentence punctuation
semicolon use
misplaced punctuation
unbalanced punctuation

Misspellings/Typographical Errors

Hyphenation/Dashes
hyphenation of phrase
hyphenation of words
en dash versus hyphen
en dash versus space
compound words

Spelling Consistency
preferred spelling
spelling variations
accents
numbers in sentences
common typos
phrases to avoid or consider
contractions

Abbreviations
in two forms
defined in two ways
used before definition
defined twice
without definitions
not used
used only once
phrases in capitals
headings in capitals

Bullets/Lists
Bullet punctuation
list punctuation
bullet capitals
list capitals

Tables, Boxes, and Figures
punctuation in tables
capitals in tables
consistency of tables, boxes, figures,

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