Services

At Polished Proofreading, I offer a range of proofreading and copyediting services to help your writing stand out with clarity and confidence. Whether you need a final polish or deeper editing support, each service is tailored to your unique voice, purpose, and audience.

Let’s make sure your words shine—professionally and powerfully.

Proofreading

What Proofreaders Do:

✅ Correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors
– Ensuring your writing is clean, accurate, and professional.
🧭 Check for consistency in style and formatting
– Making sure things like headings, fonts, and numbering are uniform throughout.
🔍 Identify and correct typos and overlooked mistakes
– Catching small but important details others might miss.
📚 Verify word usage and tone
– Making sure the language fits the audience and purpose of the text.
📄 Review formatting for professional standards
– Especially important for resumes, business documents, academic papers, and manuscripts.

Copyediting

What Copyeditors Do:

✏️ Correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation
– Just like proofreaders, copyeditors polish the basics to ensure accuracy.
🧱 Improve sentence structure and readability
– Rewriting for clarity, conciseness, and logical flow.
🎯 Enhance tone, style, and voice consistency
– Ensuring the writing matches the intended audience and purpose while preserving the author's voice.
🔍 Fact-check information
– Verifying names, dates, statistics, and other factual content when necessary.
🧩 Check for logical flow and coherence
– Making sure ideas connect smoothly and the argument or narrative makes sense.
🖋 Apply style guides (e.g., APA, MLA, CMOS, AP)
– Enforcing editorial standards and consistency throughout the document.
🔠 Standardize usage and terminology
– Especially important in technical, business, or academic writing.
📑 Collaborate with authors on revisions
– Suggesting changes while respecting the writer's intent and voice.