Publishing Services

Editing service

Editing entails proactively making changes and suggestions that will improve the overall quality of your writing, particularly in relation to language use and expression. It is making your manuscripts presentable and fit for the design/layout stage. Your appointed editor rectifies issues at the core of the writing, e.g., sentence construction and language clarity. They will improve the readability, clarity and set the appropriate tone for the narrative.

In this first stage of our editorial services, the basic procedure undertaken in developmental editing include:

• Development of content, structure, style
• Grammar, including spelling, punctuation, and style choices (not to be confused with writing style)
• Depending on the depth and clarity of your writing, this stage can be light or heavy or in between - copy editing, stylistic (line) editing, substantive editing, or structural editing, or a combination thereof.
• If required, a second reading may be carried out
• Formatting for proofreading stage - Times Roman, 12-point font, one-inch margins, and double or 1.5 spacing

Proofreading service

This is the final stage before printing (after design/layout). The proof-reader looks at different elements from those an editor does. These include, among others:

• Proportions of white space; line, paragraph, and margin spacing
• Widows and orphans
• Bad word breaks or end-of-line breaks
• Page numbers matching the table of contents and index.
• Alignment and consistency of headings
• Subheadings, headers, and footers
• Consistency of photo captions and tables, charts, and figures added in typesetting
• Typographical or other errors that may have been introduced in the layout and typesetting stage
• Proofreading process is also relied on to catch residual errors that a single pass of editing may have missed or new errors the author may have introduced inadvertently in the revisions process