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Are you finalising magazine articles or brochure copy before giving it to a designer? It's worth involving a proofreader at Word stage so they can resolve grammatical issues and help achieve consistency. Tidying up these issues before the content goes into design is less time-consuming.
Will you be publishing a text-based document? Perhaps you're writing a whitepaper, research report, press release or sales letter and would like it to be professionally proofread as a final check? |
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Professional proofreading for business and marketing content
If you have finalised your content and are ready to pass it over to a graphic designer, how about asking a professionally trained proofreader to do a final read through and tidy up any hard-to-spot issues? Finding and resolving these at Word stage is far more efficient than making text changes once the content has been designed.
It's so hard to notice missing words or a wrong spelling when you're the author. And on a final read through, there's no opportunity for those helpful stop-you-in-your-tracks moments (when you ask yourself if something even makes sense!) because you know what it should say, so it's almost impossible to spot a different meaning. When I proofread client content, everything is new to me – and I'll have the time I need to find those errors and inconsistencies while keeping an eye on intended meaning.
Using Word's track changes, I'll mark up text changes and add helpful comments to explain a change, suggest alternative wording or ask a question, where something isn't clear. I typically proofread text in Word, but if your content is in Excel or PowerPoint, that's fine too – just let me know.
If you're interested in how I proofread designed materials, take a look at the Proofreading PDFs page.
It's so hard to notice missing words or a wrong spelling when you're the author. And on a final read through, there's no opportunity for those helpful stop-you-in-your-tracks moments (when you ask yourself if something even makes sense!) because you know what it should say, so it's almost impossible to spot a different meaning. When I proofread client content, everything is new to me – and I'll have the time I need to find those errors and inconsistencies while keeping an eye on intended meaning.
Using Word's track changes, I'll mark up text changes and add helpful comments to explain a change, suggest alternative wording or ask a question, where something isn't clear. I typically proofread text in Word, but if your content is in Excel or PowerPoint, that's fine too – just let me know.
If you're interested in how I proofread designed materials, take a look at the Proofreading PDFs page.
I have worked with Jenny on a range of publications including magazines, client projects and various ad-hoc research reports – all with different requirements. Jenny is a consummate professional and understands the magazine production process thoroughly. She is efficient, flexible and I trust her judgement 100%. Her work is invaluable!
Mary Appleton, former Director and Editor in Chief, Changeboard (now Future Talent Learning)