Professional editing services

A full service to guide you from your first draft to polished final version ready for publication

Proofreading

An integrity check to correct inconsistencies of style, language and design elements in your final draft.

  • Checking your work for errors in formatting, spelling, grammar, sentence structure and punctuation.

  • Ensuring your document is complete with appropriate headings, pagination, referencing and contents.

Copyediting

In addition to proofreading, a deeper type of edit to ensure clarity of expression and that the document is fit for purpose, including accessibility.

  • Checking your language is appropriate for the audience and your tone sounds right, including respectfully highlighting any content that may not be inclusive and/or sensitive.

  • Ensuring your style is applied consistently. Also, imposing a house style if you have one.

  • Correcting formatting issues.

  • Suggesting improvements to design, including accessibility.

  • Ensuring citation and reference style are consistent and correct.

  • Cross-referencing in-text citations against reference lists.

  • Correcting the overuse of italics, bold, capitals and exclamation marks.

  • Querying doubtful facts and weak arguments.

Writing assistance

Eliminating language and grammar barriers that inhibit your argument or message, especially if English is your second language.

  • Rewriting for Plain English.

  • Ensuring inclusive and accessible language.

  • Removing repetition and avoiding overstating the point.

  • Correcting citations and referencing.

Substantive editing

An overall structural review to assess the conceptual integrity of your work.

  • Determining how the content can be rearranged, expanded or summarised to achieve the most logical structure.

  • Assessing whether additional material or rewriting is required to ensure your document fulfils your intended objectives.

  • Ensuring a logical flow and appropriate weighting of discussion.

Formatting

Clean, consistent and professional layouts for print or digital.

  • Corrections or insertions of margins, page numbers, spacing, fonts, alignment, headers/footers, table of contents, and section/page breaks.

  • Formatting of other visual elements like tables, charts, figures, images, footnotes/endnotes and lists for consistency and polish.