Copy editing & proofreading
Leave it with us.
We’ll check your writing hits all the right notes with your audience, flows well and does your work justice. We can also ensure your communications process is working in your favour.
Copy editing
Style
Check your overall language, voice and formatting is consistent. Work to your style guide specs.
Tone
Ensure your tone of voice works for you and won’t turn your audience off.
Grammar
Ensure all punctuation and spelling is correct.
Clarity
Check your work is succinct, reads well and makes sense.
Cross-check
Facts*, stats, links, and references.
* We'll check facts within your material to make sure you don't conflict with yourself. So if you tell us Mars is no longer a planet, we'll accept that choice and make sure that Mars always has a capital M.
Proofreading
Consistency
In language, tone, style, formatting and design.
Accuracy
Check changes against previous proof(s).
Grammar
Check for spelling and punctuation accuracy.
Formatting
Check your indexes, quotes and references are formatted and consistent.
Layout
Align margins, headlines, paragraphs, bullet points and images.
Process
Create
We’ll work with you to build a process that streamlines your organisation’s communications, so that each step of the process feels effortless and runs smoothly.
Execute
We’ll help you implement the process with as little disruption to your daily operations as possible.
Manage
We’ll be on hand to offer an ongoing review of your process and refine it in line with the changing needs of your business.
Among the words first found in Shakespeare are abstemious, antipathy, critical, frugal, dwindle, extract, horrid, vast, hereditary, critical, excellent, eventful, barefaced, assassination, lonely, leapfrog, indistinguishable, well-read, zany, and countless others (including countless).
BILL BRYSON