Debbie Olson
Indexing & Editorial Services
Syracuse, New York
Email: debbie@olson-info.com
Phone: (315) 432-1093
Editorial Services*
Proofreading (Proofreading is undertaken after editing, copyediting, and final layout is completed.)
- Follow editorial style sheet or or compile one.
- Flag spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammatical, and typographical errors.
- Cross-check preliminary material with text and end matter.
- Ensure TOC corresponds to chapters.
- Ensure chapter headings and subheadings are consistent.
- Ensure illustrations are present and appear in appropriate location and verify captions.
- Ensure running heads are correct.
- Identify misalignments, issues with fonts, and irregular word and line lengths.
- Check for bad column and word breaks.
- Verify links to online material.
Light Copyediting (Light copyediting is undertaken after editing is completed.)
- Mechanical editing: check spelling, capitalization, hyphenation, punctuation, numbers and numerals, abbreviations, quotations and dialogue.
- Language editing: check grammar, syntax, usage, and flag wordy or incoherent passages.
- Content editing: flag factual inconsistencies or suspected inaccuracies.
- Correlating parts: check TOC against chapters and heads, verify bibliography, illustrations and captions, tables, in-text cross-references, footnotes, endnotes, and index.
- Compile project style sheet.
Medium Copyediting (Medium copyediting is undertaken after editing is completed.)
- Includes light copyediting tasks.
- Language editing: note terms new to readers; flag and provide suggested revisions for wordy or incoherent passages.
- Content editing: flag incorrect facts and provide suggested revisions easily verifiable with online references.
- Query organizational issues and gaps in logic.
Research & Fact-Checking
Research involves identifying and gathering source material to aid in the writing process while fact-checking generally occurs near the end of the editorial process.
*Adobe Acrobat is used for proofreading and Word's Track Changes feature is used for copyediting.