
Proofreading
Gale’s patient and painstaking proofread helped us to publish a complex, fully illustrated, high-quality book with complete confidence. The result speaks for itself.
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Alan Boyle, Leannta Associates


Proofreading involves the following:
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Checking your final draft for any remaining minor errors, inconsistencies or incorrect layout
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Investigating your otherwise unedited text for grammar, spelling, punctuation and other textual and layout inconsistencies
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Often confused with copy-editing, this is very much a final polish to your text and nothing more

Additional services

Rewriting
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Altering your material to adapt it for a specific readership
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Checking text written by authors whose first language is not English, to ensure it makes sense and expresses correctly what you wish to say
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Shortening text
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Anglicizing text where American usage is inappropriate for the proposed audience
Miscellaneous
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Ghost-writing. This very much depends on the specific project and is usually limited to the provision of additional text, rather than writing whole works
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Drafting cover blurbs, synopses and catalogue copy
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Assisting with query letters
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Reference-checking
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