Roles · Marketing and media

AI copyholder

Reads transcript or proof type setup to detect and mark for correction any grammatical, typographical, or compositional errors.

Ava Park“I mark copy to indicate and correct errors in type and grammar.”An example character, not a real person.
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Copyholder · What it does

Three tasks it takes off your hands

  1. Mark copy to indicate and correct errors in type, arrangement, grammar, punctuation, or spelling.
  2. Read corrected copies or proofs to ensure that all corrections have been made.
  3. Compare information or figures on one record against same data on other records.
Where these come from

The tasks of “Proofreaders and Copy Markers” (O*NET 43-9081.00), as O*NET lists them:

  • Mark copy to indicate and correct errors in type, arrangement, grammar, punctuation, or spelling, using standard printers' marks.
  • Read corrected copies or proofs to ensure that all corrections have been made.
  • Compare information or figures on one record against same data on other records, or with original copy, to detect errors.

Copyholder · Tools and industries

It works in the tools you already use

  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software

Industries it fits

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Role facts from O*NET 31.0 Database (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), CC BY 4.0), written in our words. Sources and credits

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