When your work is completed you should check it very attentively once more – such process is called ‘editing’. But not every student knows that one more important action should take place – proofreading.
 
So, if you want to be a good proofreader you should learn the rules which a thesis proofreader should know and the requirements which a thesis proofreader should meet.
 
First of all, we should remind that a thesis editor and a thesis proofreader are not the same. And also, it is very important to remember that some time has to pass between writing, editing and proofreading because if the actions take place one by one without any break, it is to be very difficult to find all the mistakes.
 
Here are the rules for the thesis proofreaders:

1. When editing process is finished you have to read carefully once more in order to pay attention to different misspellings and, probably, grammar mistakes. Though thesis proofreading must be done in some hours for better results.
2. If a thesis proofreader checks the work in a few minutes after he/she is done the results can not be positive, and a lot of mistakes might be omitted.
3. In the process of editing you are to pay attention to the meaningful connection, but thesis proofreader must notice any punctuation mistakes at once, or even the spelling of head letters.
4. Nowadays, the computers can check your spelling easily and that is why thesis proofreaders are sure that everything is correct. It is wrong.

Also, a good theses proofreader should have certain qualities, such as:

• attentiveness;
• awareness of the subject;
• patience;
• objectiveness;

If you do not consider yourself to be a good thesis proofreader you should know that here are a lot of professional proofreaders and they can always help you with your work.