Editing

I provide a range of editing services for your report, manuscript or thesis. 

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Copy Editing

Editing to ensure correctness, accuracy, consistency, and completeness. It includes

• editing for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage

• checking for consistency and continuity of mechanics and facts

• editing tables, figures, and lists

• developing a style sheet or following one that is provided

• correcting or querying general information that should be checked for accuracy

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Stylistic Editing

Editing to clarify meaning, ensure coherence and flow, and refine the language. It includes:

• eliminating jargon

• establishing or maintaining the language level appropriate for the intended audience, medium, and purpose

• adjusting the length and structure of sentences and paragraphs

• establishing or maintaining tone, mood, style, and authorial voice or level of formality

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Structural Editing

Assessing and shaping draft material to improve its organization and content. Changes may be suggested to or drafted for the writer. Structural editing may include:

• revising, reordering, cutting, or expanding material

• writing original material

• determining whether permissions are necessary for third-party material

• recasting material that would be better presented in another form, or revising material for a different medium (such as revising print copy for web copy)

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Costs for editing vary depending on the level of editing required. Please contact me to discuss the details of your project, and I can provide a more accurate estimate. 

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The preceding definitions of editorial services have been modified from those provided here.