Editing
I can do this myself. I should hire an editor.
The editing process involves a number of different stages, most often beginning with a line edit, and occasionally macro structural editing, when necessary. During the line editing process I analyse and address the creative content, voice, style and language use, at both the sentence and paragraph level. Ensuring that your content is clear, pleasurable to read, and both fluid and fluent in its exposition, I evaluate and recommend ways to improve your content to precisely convey your intended meaning to your intended audience, without clichéd trope, problematic generalisations or unnatural phrasing. It is during the line editing process that I avail to you my own decades of experience with language and writing, elevating the quality of any content to a professional academic level.
The copyediting service I provide follows an exhaustive and rigorous process demanded by my own professional standards and tendency toward perfectionism, addressing any imperfections in a document on an exacting technical level in accordance with industry standards. My obsession with details and consistency always ensure that grammar, syntax, spelling and punctuation are polished on every page, preparing any document for final publication. In this process I confirm every fact, date, name and claim within the document, providing all source references.
Desktop Publishing
With expertise encompassing the Adobe, Microsoft and Macromedia software suites (as well as QuarkXPress, Scribus and a number of web-based applications), I have extensive experience in desktop publishing (DTP) and document creation for both print and electronic mediums. Deadly with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), I take your content from the raw form it arrives in, to professional, polished product, ready for print or web release, with a remarkable turnaround time. Once the content has been edited (with both line editing and copyediting services also offered), I prepare your documents aesthetically for the chosen medium, whether in static print or dynamic hypermedia publishing.
Like most things, the aesthetic of publishing is a language of sorts, and one that draws deeply from the metaphoric aspects of language and representation. An entire visual shorthand already exists for expressing anything, and I view my role in DTP to be in translating the meaning of a text into its visual metaphorical equivalent. While this can be accomplished through the cover that a book is often first judged by, it is also accomplished in more subtle ways, according to the conventions of the medium. Something as understated as font selection or line spacing can also communicate such things as genre, tone, content, branding and voice, to more effectively engage your target audience.
Chosen font, colour palate, typeset and general layout all act to influence the reception of any visual metaphors or genre conventions employed. Humans are inescapably visual creatures, and arrive with pre-coded associations even with the subtleties of font selection. Employing the conventions of a genre or branding enables your message to reach your audience with precision, and I provide an intimate understanding of these conventions.
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