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Capstone Editing’s simple order process provides easy access to professional academic editing. We will ensure your document is of the highest-possible quality and ready for submission or publication.
Capstone Editing’s simple order process provides easy access to professional academic editing. We will ensure your document is of the highest-possible quality and ready for submission or publication.
These documents provide representative examples of our work for past clients.
I would like to thank Lisa for her thorough edit of my grant proposal. Her suggestions gave me better ways of expressing myself with clarity and (importantly for grant proposals) with fewer words! She provided detailed comments on her edits that helped ensure that we didn’t inadvertently change the intended meaning. I appreciated her attention to the details of formatting and nuances of meaning across the document. I highly recommend her to help improve the readability and clarity of academic documents.
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You are welcome to provide specific instructions about the style guide and dictionary you would like us to follow when you submit your document to us for editing. Unless we are given specific instructions, when editing to conform to British/Australian English, we follow the Snooks & Co. Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers (which is the style guide adopted by the Australian government) and the Macquarie Dictionary. When editing to conform to American English, we follow the Chicago Manual of Style and Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (as recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style).
We are open 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, every day of the year. You can submit a document for editing on our website at any time.
Copyediting involves the close review of a document, paying attention to issues of grammar, the correct use of verb tenses, word choice and syntax, and logic and clarity. In addition, general comments are made on organisation, structure and the support of statements, and errors and inconsistencies in content are queried if necessary. Copyediting also includes all aspects of proofreading, such as addressing matters of consistency in spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, numbers, dates, percentages, symbols and equations; correcting and ensuring consistency in formatting, headings and the use of shortened forms; and editing to make all referencing complete, correct and consistent (including by rigorously crosschecking in-text citations against the reference list). Copyediting is thus a comprehensive service that meets the needs of clients who want their documents closely checked and improved in all respects, according to the Australian Standards for Editing Practice.
By contrast, proofreading is only suitable for documents that have already had the benefit of a close review for errors in grammar and expression. Proofreading does not include language editing for grammar, and should not be considered a substitute for copyediting. However, if your document does only require a final check for matters of consistency, formatting, headings and shortened forms, please contact us for a quotation.
Please contact us immediately and let us know when you would like your document returned by so we can check the availability of your editor to complete your document in the shorter timeframe. Once we have confirmed that your editor can complete the edit in time, you can pay the difference in price and we will update your deadline.
We take great pride in delivering on-time superior editing services.