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Content development
- Identify key audience
- Define document purpose
- Identify appropriate template
- Develop content outline
- Create image library
- Create tabular content
Copy editing
- Ensure appropriate use of diction, grammar, syntax and punctuation
- Restructure content and language to create better flow and clarity and ensure tone and voice match company branding requirements.
- Improve accuracy, readability and concision
- Verify and cross-check numerical information, dates, names, places and terms to ensure accuracy and consistency
- Arrange layouts to accommodate effective placement of text, images and tables
- Generate accurate and useful TOC, lists of figures and tables, and acronyms and abbreviations
- Write useful and accurate captioning when applicable
- Fact check
Line editing
- Focus on the way language is employed to communicate your message to the reader
- Focus on the sentence and paragraph level
- Ensure and improve accuracy, grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Eliminate redundancies, rectify inconsistencies, and ensure consistency of style, to include hyphenation and capitalization.
- Make passive voice active
- Substitute weak words, phrases, and sentences with stronger alternatives by substituting word choice and restructuring sentences for improved clarity toward more efficient, accurate, and focused document
Proofreading
- Eliminate any remaining errors in document before release
- Ensure deliverable is free typographical, grammatical, spelling, punctuation, syntax, formatting, and other errors that might detract from reader’s ability to read and understand clearly, without hesitation, the writer’s meaning and intent.
