PROOFREADING

Any document you put into the public domain is going to be scrutinised. Your ethics, practice and service may be of the highest order but if your website, articles, reports and marketing copy are poorly worded, or contain typing and grammatical errors, then your target audience is judging you already.

I will ensure your professional image is maintained in the quality of your text. If you’re looking for major revisions rather than straight proofreading, you’ll need to look at my copy editing services.

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I am fully proficient in the use of the British Standard Proofreading Symbols; however, I primarily work on-screen, using annotations/sticky notes on a PDF or track changes in a Word document. Working on-screen saves paper and energy, and also means I am able to make full use of macros and software to help with accuracy and efficiency.

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Proofreading services

My proofreading services include checking for:

• British or American English consistency

• Problems with the layout, for example page numbers, mis-alignments, incorrect heading levels and broken links

• Punctuation and grammatical errors and consistency

• Sentence structure and clarity

• Typographical and spelling errors.

If your document needs to follow a specific style or brand guideline please let me know.

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Non-native English speakers

I have experience of working with texts written by non-native English speakers and offer copy editing, proofreading, and localising services for your documents, articles, product descriptions, website, or similar content.

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Interested?

Please get in touch either by phone or email to discuss your project. If you know the word count and the type of document you need proofreading and when you need the work completed by please include this in your message so I can send you a quotation and we can take it from there!