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Do you need an editor?

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Editors and proofreaders look for mistakes. Mistakes that would make customers question your commitment to quality.  
Why waste money producing communications that don’t attract customers?
​A fresh pair of eyes can spot problems that you might miss, and offer a new perspective on your written materials.

Development editing

  • Ensuring content meets project objectives and standards
  • Checking content against proposed structure and subjects.
  • Identifying gaps in content and missing features
  • Improving the structure of the document
  • Identifying and querying errors
  • Liaising with authors
  • Collating comments and amendments from third parties
  • Contributing to the design brief
  • Compiling artwork and photo briefs within budget
  • Reducing wordcount to agreed lengths


Copy-editing

  • Correcting grammar, spelling and punctuation
  • Minor rewriting to improve clarity and flow
  • Cutting excess words
  • Checking language level 
  • Ensuring consistency of style and compiling a stylesheet
  • Checking for plagiarism and other legal issues
  • Checking facts and contact details
  • Picking up mistakes
  • Ensuring headings follow logically
  • Liaising with authors
  • Image briefing and sourcing
  • Formatting and marking up for publication

Proofreading

  • Checking grammar, spelling and punctuation
  • Correcting typos
  • Inserting page references
  • Checking design is as agreed
  • Ensuring consistency of style and compiling a stylesheet
  • Ensuring content is placed appropriately on the page
  • Checking captions, photos and figures are correct
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Kvk number

81584768

btw-id

NL003579879B03

Email

julia@wordfire.co.uk