ConText Editorial Services offers the following services:

Copyediting

• Editing text, line by line, to ensure proper grammar, syntax, readability, and usage
• Checking for correct punctuation, spelling, sentence construction, active/passive voice, consistency, clarity, adherence to house style, and other editorial matters as needed
• Maintaining consistent house style
• Ensuring clear author “voice”
• Eliminating bias and jargon
• Querying author(s) for clarification and incorporating author review
• Creating a thorough style sheet to ensure consistency of styles and conventions
• Always serving as the “reader’s advocate”

Substantive editing

• Analyzing content for structure, logic, completeness, and tone
• Working with the author(s) to reorganize text and rephrase where needed
• Fixing awkward phrasing, inconsistencies in style, and unclear writing
• Improving the logic and flow of sentences, paragraphs, and entire manuscripts
• Ensuring that text is appropriate for its target audience

ESL (Translation) editing

• “Translating” text written by non-native English-speakers into standard English
• Ensuring that documents are appropriate for American readers or customized for international clients

Proofreading

• Serving as a “safety net” to identify typographical errors, formatting errors, or other problems not caught during copyediting
• Comparing page proofs with written manuscript
• Checking design and layout elements: figure quality and placement, running headers and footers, widows and orphans, word breaks, head levels, and so on

Research/Fact-checking

• Checking proper names, dates, website addresses, and other data
• Verifying facts, references, quotations, and citations
• Ensuring internal consistency of facts and data