Units 223 Proofreading in the Legal Environment
Level: 2
Accreditation unit reference: A/504/9958
Credit value: 2
Guided learning hours: 20
Unit aim: The aim of this unit is to enable the
learner to develop the knowledge and skills to accurately proofread
documentation appropriate for the legal and business
environments.
There is one learning outcome to this
unit:
Outcome 1: understand how to proofread legal and business
documents to identify errors
The learner can:
- use a dictionary to identify commonly
misspelt words
- rectify pre-identified errors
- identify incorrect, missing or surplus
punctuation marks
- identify errors of consistency
- identify grammatical errors of agreement
in basic sentence structures
- identify presentation errors.