Editing

We provide a range of high-quality editing services for general documents as well as scientific reports and academic theses. Services range from quick proofreading to copy editing and more thorough substantive editing. Proofreading is a quick check of spelling and grammar, while substantive editing involves also looking at document structure, style, language, references and fact checking. We can even arrange back-of-book indexing.

Our experience is diverse, and covers corporate reports, training workbooks, conference papers, journal papers, family history books and academic theses.

As qualified editors, we can advise on making your publication more readable and presentable by looking at:

• structure
  • Is the document arranged logically?
  • Is the importance of information portrayed appropriately with text formatting and graphics?
  • Do the table of contents and list of figures correspond with the text?
• language
  • Does the style of language suit your intended audience and make people want to read it?
  • Is there any sensitive language that could offend some readers?
  • Are there any technical or colloquial words or phrases that people might misunderstand?
  • Is there consistency in terms?
• grammar and spelling
  • Does the document conform to conventional grammar?
  • Is the text worded properly so that it sends the right message?
  • Are words spelled correctly? (i.e. Australian, British or American English)
• design
  • Is the text arranged to be read quickly and easily?
  • Do illustrations and photos support the text?
  • Are tables and charts presented clearly?
• references and appendices
  • Are all references included in the text and reference list?
  • Is the right information included in appendices?
  • Has the correct citation style been used in the text, footnotes and reference list?
  • Are references cited properly?

Scientific and academic editing

With more than twelve years' experience in scientific writing, and publishing conference and journal papers, we can assist with editing your corporate report, academic thesis or paper. Editing covers the citation styles of the Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS) Style manual, Australian Guide to Legal Citation, American Psychological Association (APA) Publication manual, Modern Language Association of America (MLA), Harvard, Vancouver and Chicago. Academic theses are copy edited in accordance with Editing Research Theses by Professional Editors (PDF 40 kb). Other services include:

• presenting statistical data (tabular and graphic)
• fact checking of text and references
• graphic editing (maps, illustrations and images with Adobe Illustrator® and Photoshop® CS3).

Formats

Documents can be edited electronically with 'track changes' in MS Word, 'review' in WordPerfect, LaTeX, PDF or RTF. Documents can also be edited as hardcopy markup with proofreading symbols (suitable for theses). If you'd like to try us first to see how your document would be edited, we offer a sample edit with our quotation.