Documents are emailed to FaaborgEditing@gmail.com as
Microsoft Word attachments. Editing is priced on a per word basis, calculated
from the submitted document using the Word Count function in the Tools menu. Corrections
and comments are made using Track Changes. Author can review all edits and
comments and use the “Accept” or “Reject” buttons to finalize the copy.
A detailed invoice is provided for each job, and payment is due upon receipt of the edited document.
Unless subsequent editorial comments specifically note language problems that I previously
addressed, follow-up edits may incur additional charges.
Proofreading: 4.0¢/word,
includes
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Spelling
- Subject-verb agreement
- Modifier placement
- Parallelism
- Tone, tense, person, and number agreement
Copyediting: 5.0¢/word, includes the above services plus
- Clarity
- Wordiness
- Word substitutions
- Sentence structure
- Awkward passages
- Minor formatting changes
- Reference style formatting
- In-text citation/reference agreement
ESL or substantive
editing: 6.0 to 8.0¢/word, includes the above services plus
- Vocabulary choices
- Flow and phrasing
- Sentence structure
- Idiomatic expressions
- Limited rewriting
Services not provided:
- scientific interpretation
- changes to units, equations, or statistical representations
- scientific name checks
- formatting