Editing and proofreading
Unless you were supremely confident and assured of yourself, you wouldn’t go to a business meeting wearing a towel on your head, a luxurious dressing gown (no underwear underneath) and socks, would you? So why send your words out like that? Yet many people do, with commas in the wrong place, capital letters appearing where they shouldn’t, and 130 words saying what 50 could.
Unfortunately, unlike conversation, you do not have the right of reply when you write something and put it out for people to read – you cannot go back and correct yourself. Once the text is read, that’s it.
Our editing and proofreading service is here to make your written work clear and well received. The service is ideal in the following situations:
- You think your prose could be much snappier and better structured
- You’re not 100% confident on grammar and punctuation
- You just need some professional proofing before your work is published
We have extensive experience of editing letters, leaflets, brochures, articles, policies, magazines and web content for clients. We have also made many saves at the 11th hour, just before the job heads off to the printers, by spotting errors that had gone unnoticed by others.
If you think of language and words as part of a complex machine, consider us your language and word mechanic that can tinker with what you have written and enhance its performance, providing you powerful written work that contains all the right messages.
The service is flexible to your needs: you can use us on an hourly basis as and when you need to, or you can retain Substance for ongoing advice.
Need an entire job written from scratch? You may find our copywriting service useful.