Specific things to look for and other hints and tips will also be provided to help you make the time you spend on editing and revising and proofreading well worth it. Emails have become the primary means of rapid and informal communication in the business environment. Just in the past 2 years, I see more and more organizations moving towards email even for formal communication with capabilities such as e-signature and multi-layered security systems.

They define editing as work that is done on a sentence level, addressing problems with spelling, grammar, punctuation, or word choice. Proofreading is the act of reviewing the almost final document for spelling or grammar errors, spacing, punctuation, and overall appearance. In Microsoft Word, this means that you right click a sentence that is highlighted for a grammar problem and choose the question mark in the pop up box.

Immediate sending capabilities, availability to the recipient whenever it's convenient to read it, and easy distribution to multiple people at the same time. For example, it isn't appropriate to delegate an important project, to point out a significant error, or discuss personal issues by business email. As you probably know many online mediums of communications such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and texting have developed their own vocabulary, and colloquialism, and abbreviations.

Certainly, those who work in marketing can add to our conversation in terms of color and font, paper choice and graphics. I will address some considerations in making your document more visual appealing, more easily read, and more meaningful to your readers. Your graphics can be tables, graphs, flow charts, infographics, drawings, photos, and a wide variety of other objects.