This service produces a clean electronic document from material you provide. The inclusion of a large number of charts, graphics, tables, or outlines may increase the hourly rate. Any typesetting, formatting, or font changes that deviate from standard formats are treated as a formatting service.
This service meticulously corrects spelling, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Essentially this service provides a final review of an already-edited document, checking for any remaining errors and inconsistencies.
This service includes proofreading, but also checks for consistency, confusing or awkward sentences, and clarity.
This service includes proofreading and copyediting, but also provides an intensive holistic analysis and content assessment of the entire document, providing substantial revision and reorganization as needed. This service checks for repetition, organization, and appropriateness for the intended audience.
This service formats a document that has already been edited. Formatting includes the determination and application of appropriate graphic styles, fonts, spacing, margins, tables, graphics, headers/footers, and other stylistic elements required by the document. The preparation of PowerPoint presentations is considered a formatting service.
This service includes a reading and evaluation of a manuscript to identify strengths and weaknesses. A report is provided with suggestions for improvement in general areas such as grammar, format, tone, and style. A manuscript evaluation of a fiction work includes comments on such elements as plot, characterization, setting, use of conflicts, climax, and point of view.
