PROOFREADING

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I carry out a thorough search for errors in all your visual and aural content. I check the copy, design, layouts and images, as well as all embedded media such as video, audio and animation.

I seek perfection, but I also understand the process by which content is produced, and I know the point at which changes start becoming non-essential or uneconomic to make. Sometimes adding or removing even a single word or line space may have a knock-on effect that drastically alters the layout, so if a change isn’t essential I’ll take a practical view. I use my experience and judgement when making amendments to minimise costs and delays. My pedantry knows its place.

​A thorough proofreading of your content will involve:

• Checking your copy to correct any mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammar.
• Checking your content to identify misalignments, incorrect type sizes and unintended font changes.
• Checking for typographical, style and design consistency in headings, sub-headings and text, and in images and media files.
• Ensuring that all captions correspond to images and are consistent with the text.
• Checking that colours are used appropriately and consistently (and pointing out obvious accessibility pitfalls such as red on green).

• Checking that images, videos and sounds render correctly.
• Checking cross-references.
• Checking for factual accuracy and consistency, to the extent possible.
• Drawing your attention to elements that might require copyright acknowledgement and permission.
• Drawing your attention to any matter that may contravene the laws of libel, obscenity, blasphemy or plagiarism.

​If required, I can produce a comprehensive style guide for your business to help you achieve uniformity in style and structure.

​Meanwhile, no proofreader's website would be complete without "Weird Al" Yankovic's fabulous #WordCrimes.