Objective
To enhance the quality and efficiency of the final deliverables.
Reduce the risk of too many errors.
Gain customer loyalty.
Maintain consistency by following the same information, methods, and skills in a consistent manner. Ensure the document’s content, style, and format are of high quality..
Revise the written material to improve readability and suitability.
Ensure that the text is free of grammatical and factual errors.
Tools of the QC Check
- Formatting is an important part of QC that includes styles, page layout, pagination, headers, and footers.
- General: grammar check, spellings, abbreviations, table of contents.
- Consistency includes synopsis, summary, and conclusions versus the main body of the document, tabular data in the text.
- References: correct citations, format in-text citations, and reference list.
- Tables are properly formatted, and the layout is checked. Consistency in style of tables throughout the document, clarity of presentation, caption style, cross-references, sources are correctly cited, and content is matched to the source.