How to Write Error-free Content?

After the entry of search engine optimization (SEO) for content optimization and the increased competition among websites to land on top of SERPs, content writing and content writers are witnessing unprecedented demand. If you have novel ideas, skills to bring them to the table in the right form, and a little flair for technology, you can excel in the world of writing. And for this, what you need the most is to be an error-free content writer, which will eventually buy you more audience.

In this write-up on error-free writing basics, I will be taking you through some error-free writing tips and tricks, some tools that can help you create content free of error, and a small trick that I use myself in my writing endeavors. Ready? Here are the main topics covered in this blog:

• What is Error-free Writing?
• Top 8 Tips to Write Error-free Content
• Error-free Writing Tools
• A Small Trick That Can Never Fail You
• How to Be a Good Writer?

What is Error-free Writing? How to Be an Error-free Content Creator?

Many of us can write good content and make a living out of it. But, making our content error-free is a task! Since the world is moving very fast, the content that we create cannot wait to get published. Most of the enterprises creating web content, blogs, etc. are not in a position to introduce and maintain a copy editing stage in their content publishing pipeline. Many do not even have a proofreading final step. It is because either they cannot spend on human and tech resources on a large scale or they are in a hurry to publish things that they cannot afford to get delayed by involving the editing process.

Making our content error-free is a task!

However, even if you are running on a tight deadline, it is not a reason enough to write error-packed content. When you think from a reader’s perspective, you will realize the importance of error-free writing. If you are into making writing your career, then your key tool is writing error-free! There is nothing less to it! Therefore, to become an error-free content producer, you need to be a good editor too! Editing makes your writing error-free. But, editing your own writing is challenging. I will elaborate on this later in this blog. Be with me!

Tips and Tricks to Create Content Error-free

Without wasting time, let’s start with the top 8 tips to write error-free content.

1. Organize your content: Error-free writing guidelines not only involve grammar rules and sentence structure but also demand the accuracy of the facts and ideas you are trying to share with your readers. So, the very first step to start with your write-up is to research for data and organize it in such a way that the message can be conveyed flawlessly.
2. Keep it simple: The best way to appeal to the general audience is to keep your writing as simple as possible, avoiding the over usage of long and complicated phrases that make your readers exhausted. Remember that you are not James Joyce commencing with Ulysses unless your readers demand it!
3. Enrich your vocabulary warehouse: In whatever language you are writing, vocabulary skills are a must-have, especially when you are into constant day-to-day writing projects. You cannot write with a limited set of vocabulary as it tends to irritate readers to see the same words again and again. There are various ways to strengthen your vocabulary. My way includes three steps:
1. Read every day
2. Learn at least a new word every day
3. Deliberately use the word(s) somewhere in your writing the very next day
4. Edit your content yourself: Editing your content yourself is required to make it totally error-free. How veteran you are in any language, human efforts are usually error-prone. Going through what you have written will not only help you resolve language-based issues but will also prompt you to improve your usage, add missing points, and reorder the mess. However, this task is a little cumbersome mainly because you already know the message that you are conveying. So, there are high chances of missing out on minor details. Second, you will be so acquainted with your own writing style that you might not recognize the errors or inconsistencies in your writing that have been there for years.
5. Polish your writing with editing tools: For the issue I just mentioned, editing and writing tools can help you a great deal. Some of the top editing tools for improving your writing are mentioned in the next section. Also, the normal spell check available in word (F7) and other MS Office tools, including G tools, can save you in lots of situations if you use it with the accurate specifications set. If you set your language preferences, then they will provide auto-suggestions as well.
6. Share your write-ups with your peers: If you are a beginner in the writing field, then peer review is the most effective way of improving the quality of your writing. You can share your write-up with your peers, and since they are new to the content, they can approach it from a reader’s perspective and find errors that you might have missed out. You can also share your projects with your mentors, if you have any, as they can not only edit your write-ups but can impart valuable suggestions to improve your writing skills. Most importantly, you should be open to corrections and suggestions.
7. Be a good reader: Yes, be a good reader! What to read is totally your choice, but to read extensively is what you can include in your daily life to learn new words, master new ways of writing, understand the changing trends in the language that you use, identify the interest of the readers, and so on. From newspapers to fiction to blogs, anything you can try.
8. Keep on practicing: Finally, nobody cares if you wrote a great blog yesterday. What you can produce today and tomorrow is what counts! So, you have to be consistent, and consistency comes with practice. Every day, you have to spare time to write down anything, be it a write-up for your company website or a self-musing poem!

Before I reveal the secret tip that I use, let’s go through some of the editing tools that are on the market today.

Error-free Writing Tools

Next up, I will be listing out some of the top editing tools that can help you while producing error-free copy. Some of these tools are open-source, while some are paid tools. Some of the free tools include a paid version too, offering more sophisticated features. However, the most important thing you have to keep in mind while using these tools is that no tool can replace human skills entirely as there are so many intricate processes involved in human learning, starting from the days of gestation!

No tool can replace human skills entirely!

Most of these tools work on artificial intelligence technology and are prone to change in terms of suggesting corrections. At times, they also come up with suggestions that may not be matching with your context. Such suggestions have to be discarded. However, they learn every second and keep on improving. You need to identify these changing trends and catch up with them in implementing those in your writing. So, my point here is, these editing tools should be used as an aid that can support your writing skills and not as the final word to your writing issues.

1. After the Deadline: It is a free editing tool that makes use of various techniques of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to bring you editing suggestions on grammar errors, style inconsistencies, and typos. Its main advantage is that it can detect context-based typos. Thus, it is a lifesaver for those who mess up with “form” and “from”!
2. Ginger: Another AI-driven writing and editing tool, Ginger can help you modify your content by prompting you on textual errors, providing style and tone suggestions, and more. Instead of checking the content by individual elements, it scans it as a whole to come up with more accurate suggestions, especially based on the context in which you are writing. Moreover, its cross-platform nature allows you to edit any content that you write or publish, even if it is a tweet or an email!
3. NinjaEssays: NinjaEssays is a service provider in the domain of academic writing. It accepts writing assignments or editing projects from academicians and students mainly. Its services include content creation help, editing services, proofreading services, and formatting assistance.
4. PerfectIt: A proofreading tool from Microsoft, it caters to professionals such as lawyers, copyeditors, technical writers, medical writers, etc. Apart from the regular grammar check, it checks for consistency. The tool is customizable with in-house styles and also supports US, UK, Canadian, and Australian English versions.
5. Grammarly: Grammarly is a free grammar check tool, which is user-friendly and integrable with your browser. It has a Pro paid version too if you want to avail of more personalized service from the tool. Apart from being attached as an extension to the browser, it can also be run as a separate tool where you can paste your content for checking, keeping your original script unchanged and secure. This way, you can make necessary changes in your write-up, along with avoiding unnecessary bot suggestions. Since it is AI-powered, it can learn every day and come up with modified and more accurate suggestions as days pass.

A Small Trick That Can Never Fail You

Now, it is time to introduce you to the trick that I personally use. This might not be an exclusive trick invented by me as it was shared with me by one of my colleagues at Cosmic Strands, Sruthi. However, ever since, I could lessen much of the embarrassment that I have otherwise had to endure. Whenever I write, this has been my major issue: Missing out on the obvious!

Do you miss out on the obvious?

For example, recently I wrote to one of my friends, “I hope the blog is enough and appropriate for their requirements. Let me know when you here from them.” Luckily, before sending it, I read the mail twice and fixed it. Such errors can be caught in normal spell checks if the feature is available, but they anyway have caused me so much trouble in my career, and they are indeed powerful that, at times, they can turn out to be detrimental.

Let’s say, you are writing a mail to your client, and you type, “Its a wonderful experience talking to you.” Imagine, you realize the error after sending the mail! Awfully unfortunate, isn’t it?

This is where the trick that was passed on to me by my friend has helped me a lot. It is simply a “Ctrl+F”! Yes, the finding feature that is supported across various tools and platforms, including World Wide Web, has immense benefits to help you. How? Let's see.

First, you have to list out the common errors that you make while writing. For me, the list usually includes UK and US spelling variations, missing punctuation, subject-verb agreement issues, etc. Now, when you are done with the list, you can check your doc (of any length) for such issues with the finding feature, and yippee! You can quickly get away with them!! And as you do more, you will start exploring new ways of utilizing this very feature. I will show you an example to get it better.

Just 2 steps and you are done!

Step 1: Press “Ctrl+F” and type “one of”. As you see, you will get the results. Here, there is only one instance in this write-up.



Step 2: Now, you go through the instance closely and check if there is any subject-verb agreement issue, and you can see that there is an error there. You can rectify it right away by changing it into “ones”.



Clear enough? You can do the same for “some of”, “let” (if you confuse between “lets” and “let’s”), “its”, “it’s” and for constructions like “between...and” (as some tend to write “in the period between 1920s to 1960s”), and the list could be endless. But, do stick to the errors that you commonly make. Otherwise, this could overwhelm you and would waste your time as well.

How to Be a Good Writer?

Unlike other professional calls, in the writing field, there is no cheat sheet that you can refer to while becoming an error-free content provider. First and foremost, you should be well-versed and comfortable in the language you choose to write in. Since globalization, there is much liberalization happening in lots of fields, including languages. Lately, many online services have started their vernacular business sections as people want things in their own languages. Hence, content creation jobs in multiple languages, translation jobs, etc. are on the rise, and you can choose the language you want to create the content.

How to write error-free sentences?

Once you decide on your comfort zone, you have to start with your writing endeavors right away, and as mentioned earlier, once you are done with your content, go through it as a third person to find faults with it! This way, you will be able to dig out even minor errors and rectify them.

Hope this blog on how to write error-free content was helpful. If you have any suggestions, please comment below. Thank you :)