Professional copy editors provide a critical review of a document to improve the quality of the content and resolve all linguistic issues. This is called content optimization. Copy editors typically focus on certain specific areas and offer the special insight…
Professional Editor’s Corner: Canadian Spelling and Hyphenation
Billions of people around the world speak English. You’d think that this would facilitate communication, and it does. For the most part. Unfortunately, we have four major types of English (American, Australian, British, and Canadian), and when it comes to…
Professional Editor’s Corner: Canadian Commas
I covered Canadian spelling and hyphenation in a previous blog. Up next is the comma. I will include all the major rules, even those we also use in American English, but I will make a note when they differ. Let’s…
Proofreading or Editing? What do I need?
The need to write accompanies every individual throughout his or her life in one form or another. In this academic era, individuals have to write a variety of essays, theses, journal articles, dissertations, and more to reflect their creative ability…
How to Revise or Edit Your Essay?
Essays are lengthy pieces based on facts or creativity. The length of an essay often dictates its level of difficulty.Editing such a literary work thus becomes another responsibility, increasing the difficulty level of the project. It is difficult in that…
How to Find Affordable Editing Services Online?
Finding quality services online is not very difficult. Online businesses are booming, and everything is available online. Yet finding affordable editing services online is difficult because most online editing services providers charge a lot. Editing services include revising and proofreading…
Things to Know When Hiring a Dissertation Editing Service
Students who have gone to extreme lengths to compile a dissertation naturally want it to be perfect in all respects. Many students know that though the topic is solid, the language could do with some refinement. This is why students…
Ligatures: A Guide to Their Proper and Improper Use
Have you ever noticed the weird little-character in the word Encyclopaedia? The combination of “a” and “e” is called ligature. In writing, including fiction and typography, a ligature is a 2 or more graphemes that are mixed together to make…
How to Find Resume Editing Service and Improve Chances of Getting That Elusive Interview
The trouble with jobs is that they are not permanent. Employees can be laid off. Smart employees do not stagnate in one job. For them, one job is a stepping stone to another, better paying one. They build a resume…
Online paper editing: how to select the best service provider
Editing is a specialized service. Clearly not all providers of editing services are of the same calibre. If you seek the best online editing service provider for the review and revision of your writing, you need to wade through the…