Editing Services
(more than simply correcting spelling errors)


Light Edit (Copy Editing)
What's involved? A quick scan over text that has relatively few errors. Looking for and correcting obvious typos, errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation, and highlighting glaring inconsistencies.

This option is similar to final proofreading (Proofread Level 1), but allows greater scope for amendments. Note: changes in content, organisation or style are not covered in a light edit. Also, this level of editing is based on the assumption that the text to be treated is well presented and in an average condition).

Medium Edit (Copy Editing)
What's involved? Looking for and correcting spelling, grammatical, punctuation, syntax and general English language errors; establishing consistent use of abbreviations, capitalisation, hyphenation, spelling and usage; establishing clarity of expression and consistency in style and headings etc; suggesting improvements in overall layout and presentation or re-organising text/paragraph order to improve clarity and logical flow.

Heavy Edit (Sub Editing/Rewriting)
What's involved? As above, but also checking accuracy of references, picture captions, etc; writing or improving (if necessary) headlines, sub-heads/x-heads and picture captions; rewriting text to improve overall structure and expression (the original meaning will be maintained); highlighting ambiguous usage and/or conflicting statements and major inconsistencies; suggesting or improving areas that would benefit from further development or major revision; cutting word count to specified length.

Don't see what you need here? Just let me know what I can do for you, and I'll get right back to you.