Behind every great writer, there are great editing services.
You can have the best idea in the world for a book or piece of content, but if your grammar is shoddy, your text has no direction, or your communication is vague, no one will want to read it.
This is where editing services come in. Investing in an editor could make a huge difference in so many different aspects of your writing.
4 Editing Services You Should Follow
While editors have many different specialties to cover a range of issues in writing, these are the 4 best editing services you can invest in to make your next writing project amazing.
1. Editorial Assessment
An editorial assessment will give you an overview of the totality of your content, including suggestions on how you improve it.
These usually cover common errors in writing such as structure and style, so if you feel confident in most of the aspects of your writing and are just looking for a general analysis, this is a great way to go.
2. Developmental Editing
Developmental editing is a more in-depth assessment of your content and covers a wider range of aspects for review.
This is in some ways similar to a Book Planning Session, in that it will also help you get clarification on who your target audience is and what the main focus of your content is.
In addition to that, developmental editing is great for help in restructuring text and expanding context in order to better relay the message of your content, as well as adding features to the writing that will make it stand out competitively in its market.
3. Copy Editing
Copy editing is usually the step that comes right before proofreading and is mostly done to revise the content for readability.
This tends to encompass mechanical and line editing, grammar, and fact-checking and other legalities that may pose a problem for the author (such as copyright infringements or permissions).
The main goal of any good copy editor should be to improve communication by enhancing the “4 C’s”:
- Clarity
- Coherence
- Consistency
- Correctness
4. Proofreading
The final step of a content’s editorial cycle is proofreading and is intended to catch any final mistakes before printing or publishing.
Since the copy editor, who does their work beforehand, has already checked the text for readability, the main job of a proofreader is to catch errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, issues with formatting, and inconsistencies in any of those.
This is a great service to invest in if you’re looking to iron out any last issues in your writing.
Letters By Reesi offers all of these editorial services to help writers level up their content and publish the best possible product for their market, as well as a Book Review service to make sure that your content is exactly what your reader is looking for.