Editing & Proofreading Services F.A.Q.
Frequently Asked Questions about editing and proofreading: what they are, how they are different, and what you can expect from an edit and/or proofread job from Andreas.
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1) What is the difference between "editing" and "proofreading"?
2) Can you "just take a quick look" at my document?
3) What if my document is formatted differently than the formatting you use for your price calculations?
1) What is the difference between "editing" and "proofreading"?
2) Can you "just take a quick look" at my document?
3) What if my document is formatted differently than the formatting you use for your price calculations?
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1) What is the difference between "editing" and "proofreading"?
In a nutshell, proofreading is the final or near-final step a document goes through to catch those last pesky typos. Editing happens before proofreading. Editing looks at everything from flow and readability, to grammar and syntax, word choice, style, purpose, and voice. Editing can be light work, or it can be major work! A heavily edited document may, for all practical purposes, come out the other end of the editing process looking nearly unrecognizable from the original document across various literary counts! Proofreading at the end should catch the final "they're's" and "their's" and those final clingy typos that have staied on until the last minute - yeah, stayed is intentionally misspelled in this case to make this point! Fine, I know that's corny!
In a nutshell, proofreading is the final or near-final step a document goes through to catch those last pesky typos. Editing happens before proofreading. Editing looks at everything from flow and readability, to grammar and syntax, word choice, style, purpose, and voice. Editing can be light work, or it can be major work! A heavily edited document may, for all practical purposes, come out the other end of the editing process looking nearly unrecognizable from the original document across various literary counts! Proofreading at the end should catch the final "they're's" and "their's" and those final clingy typos that have staied on until the last minute - yeah, stayed is intentionally misspelled in this case to make this point! Fine, I know that's corny!
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2) Can you "just take a quick look" at my document?
Not a problem at all - for initial review and a price quote! I don't "just take quick looks" at documents for editing & proofreading purposes to "see if it all sounds good," however. I use to, early on in school, when I was gaining the reputation for being "the guy" to go to for editing and proofreading of documents, until I realized that it was just a cheap way for someone to pawn off an editing or proofreading job on me (facepalm) (facepalm) (facepalm). It took me awhile to realize this - yeah, laugh all you want, sometimes I'm slow about stuff like this!
The scenario would almost always start with "Com'on, just a quick look to see if it 'sounds ok.'" Well, that may sound innocent enough to a novice, but then taken them up on the task, and, low-and-behold, there are changes that need to be made! And, pretty soon, you could easily find yourself up to your eyeballs in a totally unexpected heavy editing job, especially when giving a "quick look over" a poorly translated document, for example!
Not a problem at all - for initial review and a price quote! I don't "just take quick looks" at documents for editing & proofreading purposes to "see if it all sounds good," however. I use to, early on in school, when I was gaining the reputation for being "the guy" to go to for editing and proofreading of documents, until I realized that it was just a cheap way for someone to pawn off an editing or proofreading job on me (facepalm) (facepalm) (facepalm). It took me awhile to realize this - yeah, laugh all you want, sometimes I'm slow about stuff like this!
The scenario would almost always start with "Com'on, just a quick look to see if it 'sounds ok.'" Well, that may sound innocent enough to a novice, but then taken them up on the task, and, low-and-behold, there are changes that need to be made! And, pretty soon, you could easily find yourself up to your eyeballs in a totally unexpected heavy editing job, especially when giving a "quick look over" a poorly translated document, for example!
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3) What if my document is formatted differently than the formatting you use for your price calculations?
Not a problem! Just because these are the guidelines we use to calculate our costs, doesn't mean YOU are forced to format your work that way! When you give us your document for a price quote, the first thing we will do is MAKE A COPY OF IT (don't worry, after passing you the finished product we'll delete everything that we might have remaining our our end, unless you request or otherwise explicitly give us permission to retain a copy of your piece). For documents that you send to us that are not already formatted according to our pricing guidelines (double-spaced, 12-14 point Times New Roman or Calibri font, 1-inch margins all the way around), we will format a copy of your document in the following way:
- double-spaced, 13-point Times New Roman or Calibri font, 1-inch margins all the way around,
- delete all charts, graphs, images and works cited pages in the copy of the document, unless it is explicitly stated upfront by your that these should be considered as part of the job.
We will proceed with calculating a price quote once we have made a COPY of your document in this format.
If you accept our price quote and choose to partake in our services, then we will do the translation work using a copy of the document that follows your original formatting style.
Not a problem! Just because these are the guidelines we use to calculate our costs, doesn't mean YOU are forced to format your work that way! When you give us your document for a price quote, the first thing we will do is MAKE A COPY OF IT (don't worry, after passing you the finished product we'll delete everything that we might have remaining our our end, unless you request or otherwise explicitly give us permission to retain a copy of your piece). For documents that you send to us that are not already formatted according to our pricing guidelines (double-spaced, 12-14 point Times New Roman or Calibri font, 1-inch margins all the way around), we will format a copy of your document in the following way:
- double-spaced, 13-point Times New Roman or Calibri font, 1-inch margins all the way around,
- delete all charts, graphs, images and works cited pages in the copy of the document, unless it is explicitly stated upfront by your that these should be considered as part of the job.
We will proceed with calculating a price quote once we have made a COPY of your document in this format.
If you accept our price quote and choose to partake in our services, then we will do the translation work using a copy of the document that follows your original formatting style.
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