I am a professional copy-editor, web editor and proofreader. My skills include excellent communications skills, attention to detail, working to deadlines, and a guarantee that the work completed will be accurate.
COPY-EDITING:
My responsibilities to my clients include the following:
•* Correcting, or raising queries about, the author's spelling, word use, grammar, punctuation, and
sentence structure
* Standardising the presentation of the material in respect of its 'editorial style' and conventions
* Ensuring all elements of the work are tagged correctly
* Indicating where items such as tables, figures, and illustrations should appear in the text to
ensure that they are introduced in appropriate places when the pages are assembled
* Cross-checking the material to ensure that elements identical or related match
cross-references and lead the reader to the right destination, and note numbers refer correctly to
the notes themselves
* Monitoring the factual integrity of the material
* Correcting the electronic file accurately or marking the typescript clearly to ensure that the
material can be set in type or converted to digital format with minimum difficulty
* Being alert to material that has unsuitable cultural references, or seems preferentially defamatory,
blasphemous, or contravenes copyright, or that is not inclusive
PROOFREADING:
My responsibilities to my clients include checking and correcting the following:
* Inconsistencies in the use of names and numbers
* Typographical errors
* Errors in punctuation and grammar
* Spelling errors
* Inconsistencies in the formatting, spacing and font