Once your text has been thoroughly proofread to remove errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation, editing adds the vital ingredients of stylistic consistency and polish. A piece of writing that's been proofread but poorly edited tends to come across as amatuerish and that's not what you want, I'm sure! 

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Just to illustrate, as an editor I will be focusing on the following:

• finding out which words to capitalize in a title

• choosing a bullet or list format that fits your topic or audience

• finding notes about which editing marks to use while marking up copy

• ensuring e-books, websites, tweets etc are cited correctly

• abbreviation of specific words and titles

• correctly citing a source within the text

• consistent application of date formats, numbers and italics

• determining spacing between letters, margin size, heading styles and other formatting considerations.

• choosing the preferred spelling of a word that might have multiple spellings

​And lots more like the above.

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During the editing process I will be working closely with you, the writer, to make sure you are happy with the editing style that I am using to enhance your text.