Editing services. Editorial style guide specialist. Triple-checker of detail. Amiable pedant.
I specialise in compiling EDITORIAL STYLE GUIDES. An editorial style guide can help your organisation to achieve consistency, correctness and credibility in its written content. It's a service that might be of interest to you if yours is a biggish organisation working with multiple content authors.
An editorial style guide is a document that helps writers by providing rules and guidelines on:
• Language version, e.g. UK or US English
• How you write about your organisation
• Writing style
• Grammar and syntax, capitalisation and punctuation
• Times, dates, numbers and places…
… and an A–Z consistency checklist for words and phrases with more than one correct spelling, and covering dos and don’ts for terminology specific to the organisation and sector.
Having these things documented makes the job of copyeditors and proofreaders easier because their edits and changes can be more objective and less “I wouldn’t have put it like that”. An editorial style guide can keep your writers and reviewers motivated, improve the quality of your content, and spare you the cost and delays associated with multiple revisions of every document.