Welcome
I love doing a final ‘sweep’, which sounds like I am cleaning your document.
In fact, that’s what I am doing!
Proofread = to read copy for purposes of error detection and correction. Normally the last stage of the editing process.
Copyedit = to prepare copy for typesetting by correcting and revising, ensuring clarity and accuracy. The first or second stage of the editing process (depending on what you require).
Transcription typing = to convert speech into a written or electronic text document.
Proofreading
With proofreading, I double-check and look for consistency in spelling, grammar, formatting, omissions and repetitions.
This includes ensuring any author amendments/additions have been incorporated, checking heading hierarchies, checking illustrations and captions, graphs, figures, tables etc, any financial documentation, cross-checking citations/footnotes and references, end matter, and ensuring the formatting is consistent and correct.
Confidentiality guaranteed.
Copyediting
Copyediting is popular with self-publishers, and the process may include suggestions for rewording, deletions and restructuring. More about the bigger picture than proofreading, copyediting ensures your work has achieved consistency in terms of writing style and format and focuses on the finer details of grammar.
It ensures your work avoids ambiguity, the header gradings are correct, the format is consistent, the intext cross-references are correct, website links work, allocation of end matter and illustrations etc and can include basic formatting to prepare your manuscript for design.
During this process Karen Tait Services includes notes to the author/publisher about areas that may require improvement.
Confidentiality guaranteed.
Transcription typing
I type like the clappers and can turn your oral histories/interviews or handwritten notes into a formatted document. After all, who has the time to do it themselves?
No matter how sophisticated technology has become, which software can check that the sentences make sense? That what sounds like ‘fistful clip’ is actually fiscal cliff?; that your cc’s mean circumstances? That The Box was a television show and should be italicised? That ‘for Elise’ is actually the German composition Für Elise; or the speaker’s accent rendered Australia as Austria.
Film transcriptions; memoirs; family histories; interviews; board minutes; lecture/conference notes.
“Karen’s editing gave my manuscript the structure and direction it needed. Her keen eye for detail and feel for the narrative were essential to the book’s success.”
Phil Dimitriadis, writer, academic, lecturer