Professional, experienced writer, editor and proof

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You have more important things to do today than worry about whether a writing project is fully capable of sending your message to readers. Choose to have a professional proofreader or editor put the finishing touches on your text. You will find peace of mind and possibly be saved from an embarrassing error. Remember, you don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression.

A professional editor or proofreader polishes text and improves readability through several methods. Content editing, line editing, and copyediting (or copy editing) flags inconsistencies, gaps in logic, and errors in word choice, verb tense, grammar, spelling or punctuation.

Your professional must be well-versed in multiple areas: examples are grammar, spelling, technical terms, style manuals, and fact-checking.

Your professional editor can review your manuscript on several different levels, from a light edit to major editing:

Light editing is perfect for manuscripts that have already been reviewed. Proofreading can also be used at this stage. Your professional editor checks for uniformity of headings, figures, and fonts, misspelled words, and proper capitalization and punctuation, and conformity to the designated style manual.

Copyediting, the next level up, looks at the same aspects as in light editing or proofreading, and scrutinizes readability, suggesting rearrangement or rewording of potentially confusing areas.

Content, or manuscript, editing is an overall study of how well the author’s ideas are communicated to the reader. This heaviest level of editing involves checking for clarity and consistency of ideas. Confusing text and awkward transitions are reworded. Word choice and verb tense come under close examination. All aspects of light and copy editing are including during a heavy edit.