Present Perfect Editing & Proofreading
Hands-on Editing: red-pen corrections on a manusrcript page
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Business Documents

     Proposals
    Correspondence

    Training Manuals
    Product Instructions
    HR Material
    Corporate Newsletters
    Press Releases


    Display Ads for:
        Print Publication
        Direct Mailing
        The Internet
    Brochures
    Product Descriptions
    Catalogs


ESL
(English as a
Second Language)
Material


    Business Letters
    Advertising
    Product Descriptions
    Product Instructions
    Web Pages


Websites
Blogs

Manuscripts:
Ficton
&
Nonfiction


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Services

   
      We provide a wide array of editing services for clients in a variety of fields. Whether you’re a business professional from an English-speaking country or one who wants to enter that market but for whom English is a second language, a foreign student struggling with English usage or a native speaker unsure of the specifics, a blogger, the author of a book, or any other writer who requires a little extra assistance in cleaning up the text you wish to present well, we’re here to help

      For a very reasonable price, you can gain some peace of mind about what you’ve written. We make having confidence in your own writing affordable. 

      Here are some examples of what we edit (click on the link to any category below for complete details).


  • Business Documents

    We can improve your bottom line by editing proposals, save you needless expenditures by proofreading training manuals, and safeguard your reputation by correcting correspondence and press releases.

    Of course, we also do HR material, newsletters, product instructions, and more.

     
  • Advertising

    We handle display ads placed in all kinds of media for all sorts of products; and we know how important this large investment is for any business, because we’ve been proofing advertising copy for years. Whatever outlet an ad is intended for, whether print publication, direct mailing, or the internet, your printer or webmaster probably can’t be bothered with your errors. Web developers and printers usually expect the customer to supply correct copy and take no responsibility themselves for publishing the most obvious mistakes. Fortunately, you can rely on us to take care of that problem.

    Compare the cost of your current advertising budget with the small fraction of it we’d charge to make sure the entire investment isn’t misspent.

    We also have special pricing for our Regular Business Customers.


  • ESL (English as a Second Language) Material

    If English is your second language, you probably have difficulty composing business letters, advertising copy, web pages, or product descriptions that sound natural to English-speaking readers — and this can cost you a lot of potential business.

    But that’s also where we can be of help. Let us increase your sales by making what you write sound more natural to the customers you want to attract.

    After all, it doesn’t matter how good your business is when your description of it isn’t.

    Our fees are modest. The price of correcting one page is far less than that of a single lost sale.

     
  • Websites

    You only have a few seconds per viewing to capture the attention of your potential internet audience. Blatant errors on a web page cause prospective followers, customers, and clients to simply move on to another site. They reason that if the creator of a web page doesn’t respect readers enough to eliminate spelling mistakes or poor grammar, then a reader has little cause to respect the content.

    Your website is probably your chief portal to the world. It’s how you introduce yourself to potential buyers, the primary form of advertising for your business; and, just like any other type of advertising, you only get one chance to make a first impression.

     
  • Blogs

    You put a lot of thought into writing a blog. Obviously, you’d like other people to read it.

    Unfortunately, when visitors are annoyed by conspicuous mistakes in the way you write, they usually don’t read much further.

    If you let us improve your punctuation and spelling, those thoughts will still be yours. The voice will always be your own, because we don’t rewrite what you think or alter it into something else. We simply fix the basic flaws in your presentation that can make it sound…well, thoughtless. More people will read your work when it isn’t riddled with common errors.

    So, if your blog is as important to you as we believe it is, consider letting us proof it before you post it.


  • Manuscripts

    After all the effort required to write a book, you should be careful whom you trust it to — even yourself. You may be a fine writer, but that doesn’t mean you’re the best choice for a proofreader, or that you should hire yourself to be your own editor.

    We provide affordable, conscientious editing and proofreading (combined, at one low price) for both fiction and nonfiction manuscripts.

    Nothing makes a worse introduction to a publisher (or any other reader) than a first chapter blemished by faults. If you’d rather avoid that, send it to us first.



    And here are some things we don’t do
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  • We do not specialize in medical or legal editing. For those who require a medical or legal editing service, or scientific editing for an article or thesis, we’d refer you to someone else. Although your manuscript would undoubtedly benefit from our corrections, the improvement would be solely in the communication of your ideas, not the more technical aspects of them. Perhaps you should seek out a service that concentrates on your area of expertise.

  • We don’t perform foreign language editing, nor do we do translations. Although we do read in more than one language, we’re not conceited enough to suppose we can offer the same conscientious service for any besides our own. English is our mother tongue, and it’s the language we’re qualified to edit. If you require editing in Spanish, French, Dutch, etc., we suggest you find a reputable service operated by native speakers who feel the same way. Services that offer editing and proofreading in multiple languages are probably relegating the work to a scattered, subcontracted staff.

  • We are not a resume service. If that’s what you’re looking for, plenty are out there, and we wish you well. Although we will proofread your resume for errors, we will not rewrite it for you. In our view, most professionals are competent to compose their own resumes, and it would be pretentious of us to suppose that we can describe the essentials of who you are or what you’ve accomplished better than you’re able to do so for yourself. There is no single correct format (many are available, all a matter of style rather than exact requirement). We suggest you just choose one and organize the facts of your background in a clear, concise manner, focusing, of course, on your best features. Those details are the essence of a resume; no one else can supply them, only you. So why not save yourself some money, compose your own resume, and let us simply check it for mistakes.

— Conscientious Proofreading at Affordable Prices 


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