Unit 323 Proofreading in the Legal Environment
Level: 3
Accreditation unit reference: M/504/9956
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
and amend 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
The learner can:
- compare passages of text, figures and mark
up differences
- use a dictionary to identify commonly
misspelt words
- identify incorrect, missing or surplus
punctuation marks
- identify errors of consistency
- identify grammatical errors of agreement
in complex sentence structures
- identify presentation errors
- rectify identified errors.