If you've completed a manuscript of your own, you may wish to have it reviewed and marked-up by a professionally trained and qualified proofreader.

I'd be pleased to arrange for your manuscript to be checked by the proofreader I use myself on longer drafts demanding an 'academic publishing' level of accuracy. With degrees in both Classics and English, and professional training as a proofreader, she offers thorough and intelligent checking and editing.

We can offer 2 services in this area. As there is sometimes some confusion between them, it's worth taking a moment to clarify.

Proofreading involves reviewing your text for spelling mistakes and formatting errors, and identifying these to you. We do this generally by accepting a Word .doc file from you, and returning a tracked version of this, so that you are able to consider, and then accept or reject, the changes.

We are, however, also able to provide traditional proofreading, whereby your printed-out manuscript is hand marked throughout the text using standard proofreading symbols.

Copy Editing your draft

While proofreading involves reviewing your text for spelling mistakes or formatting errors, copy-editing is a procedeure in which changes are suggested to improve the flow and consistency of the writing, resulting in increased ease of reading and improved comprehension.

Copy-editing includes all the checks and corrections provided in proofreading, as well as: the querying of sentences that don't appear to make grammatical or logical sense; the breaking-up of long or confusing sentences and elimination of unnecessary words; the ensuring of consistency throughout your document in the treatment of names, titles, abbreviations and acronyms, numbers and dates, and variant spellings.