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Proofreading

$25/hr Starting at $100

  • correcting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors
  • sub-editing text written by a number of authors to ensure consistent house style
  • working with IT-based publishing systems and databases, as well as via the internet or from paper manuscripts
  • liaising regularly with authors and publishers by phone and email
  • checking that authors have provided all the required materials and paperwork
  • resolving queries directly with the author, such as style and text inconsistencies
  • coding manuscripts for design features, such as hierarchy of headings, to instruct the production team
  • creating artwork briefs to detail the content of illustrations
  • ensuring that illustrations are correctly captioned and referred to in the text
  • producing or working to a style checklist to ensure consistency in hyphenation, capitalisation, formatting of references, etc
  • maintaining awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage with a view to ensuring they're appropriate for the readership
  • discussing and resolving any potentially libellous sections with the commissioning editor and author
  • retrieving articles from archives and rearranging within publications
  • preparing preliminary pages for the title, contents and preface of a publication
  • overseeing the work of indexers, typesetters and designers
  • typesetting and designing layout (increasingly for freelancers)
  • ensuring that publications are prepared on budget and to schedule
  • managing marketing and business activities (for those who are self-employed).

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$25/hr Ongoing

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  • correcting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors
  • sub-editing text written by a number of authors to ensure consistent house style
  • working with IT-based publishing systems and databases, as well as via the internet or from paper manuscripts
  • liaising regularly with authors and publishers by phone and email
  • checking that authors have provided all the required materials and paperwork
  • resolving queries directly with the author, such as style and text inconsistencies
  • coding manuscripts for design features, such as hierarchy of headings, to instruct the production team
  • creating artwork briefs to detail the content of illustrations
  • ensuring that illustrations are correctly captioned and referred to in the text
  • producing or working to a style checklist to ensure consistency in hyphenation, capitalisation, formatting of references, etc
  • maintaining awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage with a view to ensuring they're appropriate for the readership
  • discussing and resolving any potentially libellous sections with the commissioning editor and author
  • retrieving articles from archives and rearranging within publications
  • preparing preliminary pages for the title, contents and preface of a publication
  • overseeing the work of indexers, typesetters and designers
  • typesetting and designing layout (increasingly for freelancers)
  • ensuring that publications are prepared on budget and to schedule
  • managing marketing and business activities (for those who are self-employed).

Skills & Expertise

Analytical WritingEditingLayout DesignMicrosoft WordProofreading

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