Week1

The importance of Editing and proofreading.

I never realized the importance of this so much until this past summer. I always knew I had to know this stuff and make sure I had it down for my classes. My writing for mass media class tested us over this, which I liked because it made me study it. I knew it would be hard to study such a large book of spelling and grammar if it wasn't required for me. This is why I studied it really really hard. I went threw almost the whole AP book. I think I figured it out pretty well, but then I went a summer without studying it and I forgot almost all of it.

During my internship with Box Talent this summer I thought it almost was a joke. I had to answer phones and sort out the mail... all the little stuff. Every now and then I would get a bigger task such as communicating with a client about a band they were trying to book or something like that. All of the sudden, one day an agent was writing a promotional letter to send out to potential clients. She wrote it and was ready to send it out, but then turned to me and asked me to proof read it. I was so scared that I would forget something or correct something that really didn't need to be corrected.

After looking over her paper for awhile I realized that I was able to correct a few things for her and I knew they were correct due to the knowledge I had with the AP Style Book. She didn't just ask me to proof read her letter because she wanted some random person to read it, she asked me because she knew I was a college Public Relations major and I had been practicing writing correctly for a couple of years. I really felt proud of myself after I did this and I knew she was impressed with me because of the great corrections I made for her!