Month: July 2019

  • Proofreading numbers: less about maths, more about common sense

    Proofreading numbers: less about maths, more about common sense

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    by

    Helen Stevens

    Do you love figures, calculations and graphs? Or would you rather avoid numbers if at all possible?​If you’re an editor or proofreader who routinely works on mathematics or science material, you’ll be used to dealing with figures, percentages, tables and graphs. But even editors who work on other texts (academic, business, and even fiction) will…