Golden Rules of avoiding typos

No matter how you put out your work, if you do not express it in a good structure shaped with well-selected and used words, it is not going to be as efficient as you would want to. People that will evaluate your writing need to be totally focused and not distracted by mistakes simply made when preparing your work.


English language — with a history of 15 centuries – includes more than 1 million words. 170.000 of them are in currently use where it is believed that one person uses 20.000 to 30.000 words. This very rich content of words paves the way for typos – making mistakes in written words accidentally or by unknowing the spelling of the word itself. Accordingly, it takes a bit further effort in providing comprehensive and effectual texts in English.



That is why, you have to care for the spelling and writing of the words to make yourself clearly understood. Otherwise, your work may not reach the aimed stage by getting lost in the errors made by not being mindful enough of the vocabulary. Following is a list of significant affairs that you need to follow through if you are looking forward to use accurate and impeccable English words when writing:



- Make sure that you are going for the needed word — the correct one. The pronunciation in your head may make similar words sound the same, yet you have to check it in terms not providing a semantic loss (e.g. there & their/ you’re & your / scent & cent / off & of).
- Similarly, several letters, when read unescorted, sound the same, so you have to either look up the words when writing it down or memorize the words as a whole. Hence, you would not misuse a made-up word instead of the one you need (e.g. captain & kaptain / license & licence / consensus & concensus).



- Besides the same sounding letters, there are also other called the silent letters. Since these letters are not read when pronunciated, they may be mistakenly not put into the words when writing too. Therefore, these words should, likewise, be taken into proper consideration when writing (e.g. know, psychology, scene, foreign, wrestle).



- There are several certain differences that may lead to having difficulties in spelling too. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia and a few other learning and thinking differences bring forth drawbacks in writing. In terms of tackling this struggle, people with such challenges need to work more in written forms rather than listening and speaking. They also need to take their time, not rush and slow as much as possible to have a writing full of words which are error free.



Briefly stated, misspelled – miswritten – words are a substantial factor of expressing yourself, and they should be retraced several times for finding the correct word and using it. Make your arrangement, go for the accurate words that you need, put them together in meaningful words and voilà! Here you have your bullet-proof writing.