A Proofreader on a Director’s Salary

It does feel good when a customer genuinely says "I love that! It saves me several hours a week."

This was the comment of a director in one of the big consultancies with whom I have been working for some years on raising report writing standards .  He has just started to see the enormous benefits to his team of ready access to answers to all their grammar questions.  It has taken some time for writers to realise how useful Grammar to Go is, and to start using it, but the results are beginning to show.  The line managers don't have time to sit and explain grammatical points, and are not always sure of the answer themselves - but they can say: "look it up in Grammar to Go - and if you can't find it email them your question".

There is now more consensus about what is right, and more people are looking words up rather than guessing.  The grammar checker is only useful if you know how to use it - and now more people are able to use it intelligently.

My client reckons that he personally is spending at least an hour a week less on correcting English - which means he can put the effort into reviewing content, which is what he should be doing. Some of the managers reporting to him are seeing benefits filter through as well.  Also, by the way, they are more confident about the quality of reports that are going out to customers.  How do you value beauty sleep?

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