Who Can Be A Freelance Editor or Proofreader?
Anyone can be a Freelance Editor or Proofreader. That is, anyone with a good grasp of the English language, or native language if you want to edit non-US documents. Do you cringe at typos and grammatical errors in newspapers, magazine articles, Internet articles and web sites? Do you find yourself correcting the errors as you read along? Then being a freelance editor or proofreader might be the home-based business for you. It’s true that many freelance editors have college degrees with an English Major. Or at the very least, they’ve taken a good number of English classes. However, having a degree is not a requirement for being a freelance editor. The only real requirement is a good, no a great, grasp of the English language. There are many successful freelance editors today, who have taken some classes, but have no degree. Those editors have a great grasp of the language. Be careful though. There are many confusing properties of the English language. There are many different parts to a
