Services
Proofreading
- Comparing an edited or corrected document against an earlier version to ensure that corrections and revisions have been inserted.
- Reading an edited document for typographical errors and minor mistakes in grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc.
- Reading a formatted document to be sure that it conforms to a particular style or design.
- Checking hyperlinks on a website.
Copy editing
- Correcting mistakes and inconsistencies in grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, treatment of numbers, etc.
- Canadianizing spelling, punctuation and other conventions if the original text was written for American or British readers.
- If there is a preferred dictionary or style guide, ensuring that it has been followed.
- Editing tables, figures and lists for correctness and consistency.
- Checking accuracy of numerical material.
- Indicating placement of illustrations.
- Marking levels of headings.
Stylistic editing
- Clarifying meaning, polishing language, eliminating jargon.
- Ensuring that the language is suitable for the intended audience.
- Creating or recasting tables or figures.
- Checking or correcting reading level.
Structural (substantive) editing
- Reorganizing the structure or content of a document to make it more comprehensible to the intended audience.
Rewriting
- Creating a new document or manuscript (or new parts of a document) from the original material.
Writing
- Creating new content suited to your document or publication and the intended audience.
- The source may be your materials or subject matter expert or our research.
- Speech writing.
Formatting and design
- Developing a formatting style that is in keeping with the conventions of professional publishing (or applying a predetermined style).
Elements of formatting may include typeface, type size, spacing, paraqraph style and margins for each part of a document, such as the text, headings, quotations, lists, footnotes, reference lists, tables, captions for illustrations, and so on.
- We offer full graphic-design services through our network of colleagues and associates.