Proofreading
Clients often ask for proofreading when what they want/need is copyediting. Proofreading happens after a document or manuscript has been edited. It’s one of the final stages of a project and is vital to producing clean, easily readable documents.
If we determine that proofreading is right for your project, I will check:
Formatting
- Alignment of text
- Fonts
- Word stacks (three or more instances of the same word at the beginning or end of a line) and hyphen stacks (three or more consecutive lines ending with a hyphen)
- Line breaks and word breaks
- Line spacing
- Special characters
Language
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Capitalization
- Subject/verb agreement
- Headers and footers
- Front and back matter
- Page references
Visual elements
- Tables, charts, and other figures
- Illustrations & images