If you want to learn more about editing and proofreading your work, university websites are often excellent sources for material about grammar, punctuation and all manner of English language issues that cause writers difficulty.  Why is this the case?  Let’s consider the proofreading service at Nottingham University.

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Nottingham University scores well in many of the league tables produced for assessing universities, both in terms of teaching quality and research.  Nottingham appeared as number 7 in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008, showing that the lecturers at the university are heavily involved in research and publish a great deal of new material.

The quality of teaching at Nottingham was rated by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) which scored Nottingham in 39 subjects, giving the university between 22 and 24 from a total of 24 points.  International ratings also place Nottingham highly, for instance it was ranked 10th best university in the UK by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

With campuses in Malaysia and China, it really is a university with its eyes on the global experience, preparing students to compete in a highly mobile and skilled workforce.  Staff and students are recruited from abroad.  Nottingham University is proud to have been the first foreign university to establish a campus in China (in 2005) and the university was given a Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2001 and a Queen’s Award for Industry  to celebrate its contribution to international trade in 2006.

The university began as a civic college in 1881, moving to its University Park campus in 1928 after a gift of 35 acres from the Boots the chemist heir, Sir Jesse Boot.  It became a university in 1948, but even before that transformation, distinguished visitors such as Gandhi, Einstein and H G Wells came to visit as guest speakers.

Past students at the university have gone on to win Nobel Prizes or excel as Olympic champions.

Today, the university has over 32,000 students at the UK campus, with 61% of these coming from overseas.  The campuses abroad cater for over 3,000 students in Malaysia and over 4,000 in China.

Professional proofreading advice

Could Nottingham University’s website help you with your editing queries?  Take a look at their excellent study skills advice with advice on grammar, punctuation, vocabulary and general writing skills.  All this should be invaluable to you as you improve your editing and proofreading skills.  Although the original reader of this material might be expected to be a university student writing essays, there’s no denying that this material is valuable for  anyone who needs help editing their written work.

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