Quality
Personalised care, three levels deep
Every document receives our utmost personalised care — and every service has its own quality control department to assure error-free output.
01
Language editor
First scrutinises your document and makes the edits.
02
Senior editor
Reviews your files before and after editing against our strict quality guidelines.
03
Chief editor
Oversees the final output so your deadline is met and our standards are maintained.
Language and copyediting services
Professional copy editors and proofreaders refine the language and produce high-calibre, on-time, error-free manuscripts that strictly follow the relevant style guides. As far as possible, we assign the same editor to each client for a consistent standard across papers.
Your document will feature
- Accurate language usage and style
- Correct grammar and punctuation
- Better text flow
- Conformity to specified English spelling
- Improved overall readability
- Enhanced quality — with confidentiality assured
English Language Editing involves
- Refining language usage
- Correcting grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Improving text flow
- Conformity to British, US or other English forms
- Rearranging sentences and paragraphs where needed
- Raising overall readability and clarity
Proofreading involves
- Correct word usage and language style
- Punctuation
- Conformity to British, US or other English forms
- Spelling, typographical and grammar errors
- Typographical and mechanical errors
- Formatting, design and layout issues
Copyediting involves
- Accurate spelling and punctuation
- Good sentence construction and rhetoric
- Apt choice of words, style and terminology
- Proper grammar and word usage
- Uniform headers, formatting and paragraphs
- Consistency in typeface
Substantive Editing involves
- Extensive language and scientific editing of structure and content
- Consistency in English forms, spelling and syntax
- Clarity of thought, flow and conciseness
- Revision, rephrasing and refining
- Resolution of content ambiguity
- Readability to publication standards