Warm-up (1 minute): Open your Lesson 4 Proposal Draft. With a partner, read the first paragraph aloud and spot any obvious errors together. How would a spelling mistake affect a decision-maker reading your proposal?

This lesson teaches you to use your word processor's built-in spell-check and grammar tools to produce error-free documents suitable for emailing to teachers, parents, or project sponsors.

Portfolio Build: Turn your Lesson 4 Proposal Draft into a proofread **Polished Proposal v3** ready to email to a decision-maker.

Why Proofing Matters

Spelling and grammar errors make even good ideas look unprofessional. Automated tools catch obvious mistakes but miss context, uncommon Irish-language terms, or project-specific terms like your Something Real name.

The Proofing Process

1. Automated check: Run spell-check and grammar tools
2. Human review: Read every sentence aloud — your ear catches what your eye misses
3. Peer review: Fresh eyes spot what you can't see
4. Final polish: Check formatting, page numbers, your name/contact

Tool Limitations

• May not recognize uncommon Irish-language terms, project-specific acronyms, or rare proper nouns (depending on dictionary/language settings)
• Grammar suggestions can be wrong
• Always do human proofing after automated tools

Follow these instructions to run spell-check and grammar tools on sample text with deliberate errors. This teaches you the interface before working on your own Proposal Draft.

Open your Lesson 4 Proposal Draft from your Digital Portfolio folder. Run spell-check and grammar tools, then do human proofing. Save as **Polished Proposal v3**.

Success criteria:

• ✅ No spelling errors
• ✅ Grammar suggestions reviewed (not just auto-accepted)
• ✅ Read aloud — sounds professional
• ✅ Project terms/proper nouns correct
• ✅ Saved as {{code:Polished-Proposal-v3.docx}} in Digital Portfolio