(845) 217-7441
880 Aileen Street, Oakland, CA 94608

Your words, sharpened to the point.
Your words sharpened, to the point.
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Specialty:
Working with English text written by authors whose first language is not English

Services

• Light editing:  Your manuscript will be free of misspellings (including the ones overlooked by spell-checking programs), grammatical errors, stylistic problems (such as capitalization and punctuation issues), and typos—which look unprofessional and sloppy, distract from the content, and might cause some readers to question unfairly the value of the content you are presenting. Light editing—not at all to be confused with line editing, or substantive editing (see below)—ensures that your manuscript is considered professional.

 

• Copyediting:  Your manuscript will have all the benefits of light editing, and—in addition—it will be free of problems of usage and parallelism, discontinuities, ambiguities, triteness, and awkward phrasing. Copyediting ensures that your manuscript is both professional and coherent. [See further definition and samples.]

 

• Substantive editing (line editing):  Your manuscript will have the benefits of light editing and copyediting, and—in addition—it will be free of wordiness, poor transitions, organization and retrievability problems, lack of directness, lack of concreteness, and lack of emphasis. Substantive editing, also known as line editing, ensures that your manuscript is professional, coherent, and compelling. [See further definition and samples.]

 

• Other services:  Indexing, copy writing, research, publication packaging, brochures, website development and cleanup, and so on depend on the work needed.

 

 

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