Services

Proofreading and Copyediting for SMB Business Organizations and Academia (Instructors and Students)

I am happy to work in Word, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, and Publisher. I will markup editing and revision suggestions with Word Track Change, utilizing the APA and Chicago Manual styles, as well as any in-house style you prefer or require. I will email your copies in Word and/or PDF format. I work on projects of all sizes, with long or short deadlines.

These are a few examples of the types of documents and projects I can help with: 

  • Company reports
  • ESL writers’ documents
  • Essays and theme papers
  • Formatting
  • Instructor course syllabi and lesson plans
  • Job resumes
  • Journal Articles
  • Mortgage and loan documents
  • Newsletters, e-blasts, sales brochures, flyers, invitations
  • Press releases
  • Short Stories
  • Website content

For a free sample of my editing, please email a portion of your document or material to me at [email protected]

Proofreading vs. Copyediting:
Proofreading is the final draft, the last step after copyediting and before publication or submission.
In the past, it was called typesetting and was done with a “galley proof” read-through to spot and fix mistakes.
Copyediting improves the quality of written material and ensures it is free from grammar and style errors. Copyediting is done before final printing and before proofreading.
Your spelling, grammar, punctuation, formatting, word use, and accuracy are checked during proofreading. Errors of ambiguity, hyphenation, headings, page headers, footers, missing or repeated text, captions, commas, and typographical issues such as italics, font, and line spacing are also reviewed.
Copyediting enables your writing to sound more native by observing fluency and consistency. The structure and meaning of your work, other than changes to make it flow better, are reviewed. I check your document’s tone, style, wordiness, logical transition, syntax, and formatting, including word use, tables and figures, and heading structure. Importantly, I check that the citations and references are correct per the style manual.