SERVICES

EDITING
• Substantive Editing
Preferred Words improves the document’s overall clarity and organization while preserving the author’s original intent and style. Such editing enhances an article or document by filling in gaps in logic, ensuring consistency in tone, verb tense, and flow, and maintaining appropriateness of language depending on the document’s intended audience.

Technical Editing
• Preferred Words corrects common writing errors made in spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax, sequencing and formatting, and/or vague wording. Such editing ensures that the author’s style and subject matter will be presented accurately and professionally without disruption to the reader.

PROOFREADING
• Mark and correct typographical errors
• Correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, verb usage, style, cross-referencing and formatting, spacing, and other inconsistencies. To be considered competent and professional, an author must ensure that his/her document is free of such errors.

COPYEDITING
• Ensures that the author’s message is clear and consistent. The document will be edited for syntax, straightforwardness, redundancies, variations/inconsistencies in tone, style, and verb tense, and awkward phrasing. It does not include fact checking or accuracy regarding legal references.

Documents will be reviewed for:
- Spelling
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Verb tense/usage
- Style
- Consistency

REWRITING AND REPHRASING
• Focuses on the author’s intended audience. The document will be edited to retain the author’s style and tone while ensuring that it properly presents the subject matter to its intended reader. Upon submission of an order, the client must state whether the reader is presumed to be a layperson, a group of academics, professionals, lawyers, etc. If a document is not written at the reader’s level of comprehension, it will lose its effectiveness.