Proofreading Checklist

You MUST proofread before handing in the paper. Assign the person in your group with the best written English skills the task of reading through the entire paper.

Remember - to proofread means to look for errors.

Proofread especially for

subject/verb agreement - remember third person singular eg XXXX
verb tense - When did/is/will the action take place?
excess - 'The ~~frequency rate of the~~ data transfer frequency rate...'
vague words - 'We did ~~some~~ tests to demonstrate that...'
redundancies - 'The accuracy rate plummeted~~, falling~~ 50%.'
spelling mistakes - You have a spell check tool at your finger tips!
avoid s/he - use the plural 'they' instead - example: 'Users ~~The user~~ navigates with... and ~~s/he~~ they can play against...'
page numbers
proper nouns - Check the previous literature and be consistent throughout your paper.
numbers - zero through nine, 10+ [Do NOT start a sentence with a number, spell it out - "~~500~~ Five hundred students participated in the simulation."]
hyphens - Hyphenate attributive and predicative compound adjectives, like "real-time processing" or "state-of-the-art machine learning models." For more information see