SERVICES OFFERED

I can offer you a tailor-made service – from a quick proofread of one sheet of A4, through to a complete rewrite of a textbook or corporate handbook. Simply tell me what you want – and I will do it. The following is a guide to the variety of work undertaken.

Basic services

• Copy-editing
• Sub-editing
• Rewriting
• Headline writing
• Producing style guides
• Producing guidelines for contributors
• Proofreading
• Cutting or filling to length
• Lay-out and design
• Post-editing production
• Brochures, leaflets and promotional literature: writing, design and production.

Specialist services

• Editing high level academic, medical and technical material
• Producing plain English from specialist, technical and academic material and adapting it for a lay readership
• Turning translated material into ‘normal’ English instead of ‘translaterese’, while losing none of the meaning
• Coping with ‘difficult’ books (e.g. multi-authored, foreign authors, heavily revised new editions of existing books etc.)
• Americanisation/Anglicisation of copy, trade names etc.
• Internet research.

Additional skills

• Fluent French
• Good medical German (rusty general language skills)
• Dutch studied to B-level
• Latin and Russian (rusty)
• I am a competent translator, and have undertaken limited translation work from French and German, including medical texts, for several publishers plus the PIARC/Highways Department
• British Sign Language studied to Level 2
• Full driving licence
• 100 wpm shorthand.