While students do need to gain the technical knowledge to be able to edit and proofread their own work competently, there are lots of other ways in which we need to support them to become effective self-editors. Thanks for your honesty in this post. I8217;ve read some proofreading articles that make it seem like anyone can do it and become rich. So not true!! As a proofreader myself, I always tell people they HAVE to be trained before they can start working. From now on, if anyone asks me for tips on how to start, I8217;ll just send them to your site! When it comes to transcriptions, however, editing and proofreading takes a bit of a different turn. Knowing that transcribing is usually being done for technical industries like research, medical, or anything legal-related, editors are only given a limited window for editing. This is because it’s vital that they preserve the original thought of the speaker when the useful resource recording was made and depending on the intended use of the transcript.