Copy Editing & Proofreading
Our editing and proofing services are designed for a diverse clientele ranging from students to academics and corporate settings. Our multiple services provide differing levels of interaction with your manuscript, based on your individual needs. We are available to work with you through email and telephone conversations, or we can come to you at your office or school in the Greater Boston area. Our editors use Microsoft Word to track changes and write comments to offer suggestions to help improve your written work. We will be happy to send you a quote or tailor our services to your needs; just give us a call or send an Email.
Rates are dependent upon service chosen and are based on a sliding scale. A 15% reduced project rate will be applied to manuscript edits over 100 pages in length
Line-by-Line Editing
With this option, our editors will give your piece of writing the works. We work with your manuscript one page at a time, catching any errors in grammar, spelling, language usage, and offer suggestions to help fix organizational problems.
We will also pay attention to the nuances of style. Each piece of work is unique, requiring different styles and formatting depending on the genre, audience, and organizational style. Your scholarly article needs to adhere to Chicago style? We'll catch it if your references aren't properly notated.
Expect lots of feedback, as we will pick over the piece and nitpick the little details, and then give you a critique of the whole piece.
Developmental Editing
You may have the perfect idea in mind for a book, magazine article, thesis paper, or website for your business. If you don't have a road map for your planned piece of writing, however, it can be difficult to develop your idea into a coherent and interesting piece of writing with the proper tone, structure, and content. As writers ourselves, we've certainly been there, and it sometimes takes a good editor to help you guide you through the process of developing good copy that can turn into a research paper, scholarly article, or a book.
We'll start with your idea, and get a feel for your "voice." At the same time, we can take a look at what you already have written and look for themes, patterns, and holes in your research and structure that you may not have anticipated.
We can help you by doing research, rewriting, and line editing your manuscript as needed. From there, we can point you in the right direction to help you decide where to take your piece next, and see you through to the final document.
Copy Editing
This is the option to pick if your manuscript is almost complete and you just need that last set of eyes to take a good look. We will give your manuscript a quick once-over, making final corrections to style, grammar, and citations.
Our copy editors will quickly make timely and professional changes that increase the strength and appeal of your manuscript, and pay attention to ensuring perfect grammar and spelling. If needed, transitions may be added, excess words may be deleted, or an occasional word or phrase may be flagged for reconsideration.
This is also a perfect option for small businesses that need a good last look at menus, marketing materials, email content, or press releases to make sure it's good to go in front of your customers.
Formatting
Our formatting service can help writers produce professional documents that adhere to industry, discipline, or institution standards. Some of these publications that require very specific formats include books, theses and dissertations, articles, brochures, and manuscripts intended for self-publication.
Some programs and publishers set stringent layout requirements for submission, and if your work contains photographs, tables, or other graphic elements, we can help you maintain the look you are searching for throughout your publication.
We'll give your manuscript a thorough edit, making sure it maintains proper and consecutive pagination, regular chapter progression, footnoting and reference layout, and other specific requirements depending on your needs. In addition, we can create and correct the front and back matter pages of your document, including title pages, tables of contents, indexes, reference sheets, and appendices. If you need help with a cover design, we can do that as well.
Proofreading
Our master proofreaders service will review and edit the grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax of your work at a fair rate.
In this option, we won't change your content, but we will make sure all usage and citation errors are corrected, including errors of capitalization and punctuation. We'll catch any problems with acronyms, country names, and addresses, and make sure your style usage is consistent. In addition, we will fix typos and delete entire sections of text that somehow makes it into your final piece of writing. We'll double check your front matter, index, and in-text and reference-section citations.
This option will not correct style errors; rather this focuses on making sure that the rules of standard written English are followed. It's the perfect option for international scholars and English as a Second Language (ESL) writers who are submitting or publishing work that has been translated into English, but that does not require major structural changes.