Grammar checking- Proofreading Services for Students

If you go through the assignments, dissertations or descriptive answers, you will find most of the students concentrate their effort on keeping the content right, ignoring the fact that writing correct answers requires them to write the same in error-free language also. Not only the error-free language but the assignment writing and dissertation writing are also required to be represented in proper format and with sentences which are logically correct. To make the answers perfect, lots of other aspects, except the contents, should be taken care of. We will restrict our discussion to the grammatical aspect of the answers and why proofreading is extremely important to make the answers grammatically flawless.

Oxford Dictionary defines grammar as the way in which the words are put together to form proper sentences. This definition is simple enough to reflect the importance of grammar in your communication, be it verbal or written. If you just put together the string of words without proper grammar, then your communication loses one important thing, logic. The string of words without proper grammar opens your communication to different interpretations or no interpretations! So when writing the answers you should, at first, take care of the grammar of your answer, as otherwise, your answer could not be properly interpreted and evaluated by your examiners. Here lies the importance of proofreading. 

An efficient proof-reader can help to improve your Assignments or Dissertation 

Improving the consistency in using ‘tense’. In most the cases it is found that the entire assignment/dissertation is full of inconsistent application of tenses which definitely hurts the integrity of the write-ups

• Improving the use of Articles like ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’. The students, especially commit mistakes in using ‘a’ and ‘an’

• Improving the logical construction of the sentences,

• Improving the use of Voice. Sometimes students tend to use the Passive Voice instead of the Active. It is always better to use Active Voice, wherever possible, than Passive one

• Helping to remove the capitalization errors

• Improving the use of Preposition by eliminating the wrong ones

• Improving the use of Infinitive, Gerund or Base form of the verb

• Helping to remove the errors in using Adverbs and Adjectives

• Correcting the Subject-Verb agreement. Sometimes students commit mistakes in this area very frequently thereby downgrading their assignments or dissertation work

• Improving the order of the words that should be used to make the sentence more logical and grammatically correct. This usually happens when the assignment is being written by the student in a language other than his/her native language. Usually, words are used in different orders in sentences in different languages. 

• Helping to rectify the mistakes in using Plural Nouns like using ‘children’ instead of ‘children’

• Helping to remove the errors in using incorrect Comparative or Superlative Degrees 

• Eliminating the errors of omission especially Verbs, Prepositions or Articles while writing the sentences. 

• Improving the use of Conjunctions. Very often students start sentences with conjunctions like ‘while’, ‘whether’ etc. Proof-reader will help to ensure that the assignments of the students are free from this kind of error.

• Correcting the wrong use of certain terms like ‘fairly unique. Here students commit mistakes in using ‘fairly’ before ‘unique’ as the word ‘unique’ is used to mean there is only one of its kind. Moreover, some mistakes in using words like ‘quote’ and ‘quotation’ are often found in the writing of the students. Students forget that ‘quote’ is a verb whereas ‘quotation’ is a noun. 

Conclusion

Thus a lot of grammatical mistakes could be rectified by resorting to an efficient and experienced proofreader. The grammatical mistakes, if overlooked, will definitely make your answer ambiguous enough to score a low grade, even if you have good subject knowledge. A proofreader can make your assignment free of any grammatical mistakes and can help you to submit an assignment writing which is clear, concise and transparent enough to boost your academic performance.