Tuesday, December 7, 2010

How Do I Use This Service?

If you have only a few articles that need editing or tweaking, you may send me an e-mail through the link here or through the contact link on my profile page at HubPages: http://hubpages.com/profile/Aficionada.

Send your request for work, along with links to the articles that need work.  If they are not currently published, send me their titles, along with the word count for each one and any comments (if there are any) made by an online publisher that has refused the articles. 

Wait until I send you an e-mail confirming the order, before you make payment through the PayPal button here.  (You can pay with a credit card or with a PayPal account.) In the e-mail, I will also give you an estimate of when you will receive the article back.  The time will depend on how many orders are ahead of yours. 

If you have a large order, please contact me to ask about my availability, before you send details of the articles. You can pay for the work in batches of ten articles.

Articles that I cannot access through a link can be sent in the body of an e-mail.  I will return them as Word documents, showing your original article side-by-side with the edited version, to assist you in writing future articles. Alternatively, I will open a Google Doc for communicating with you about your article and providing the edited version of it.

I welcome your comments, and I look forward to receiving your orders!  Please let others know about my service, so that their writing can be brought up to the standards of their publishers.

Friday, December 3, 2010

A Simple Service for Improving Your Written English

Blogs on Blogger are available in over forty languages! But in other areas of the internet, writers might be required to publish in English only.  For the writer whose first language is not English, this poses the problem that their writing may be flagged for being substandard.


This service - Well Written Proofreading Service - is offered to assist writers whose English needs an upgrade.  Speakers of other languages are the initial target group, but not the only one.  We who speak English as our first language often benefit from having a second pair of eyes look at our work, to give suggestions for making it as clear, precise, effective, and suited to its purpose as possible.


Description of Service


For a fee of $5, you will receive an improved version of your manuscript up to 1500 words. Please note that in cases needing extreme rewriting, this fee may have to be increased.  Fees for longer manuscripts will be assessed proportionally to their length and need for revision.


The voice and style of your article will be retained - for example, a casual style will not be forced to become a formal one.  Some grammatical constructions which would be appropriate within the style you have chosen will not be changed merely because a grammar book says they should be.


Your manuscript will be returned to you either (a) in the form of a Word document attached to an e-mail, with the text showing recommended changes side-by-side with your original text, along with additional suggestions in the form of comments, or (b) as a Google Doc document.  In cases where neither of these methods is possible, we will communicate with the writer to work out a solution.


All payments must be received through PayPal before work on your material will begin.


Disclaimer


This service makes no warranty about the accuracy or originality of your material.  It is solely your responsibility to submit only material that you are legally entitled to publish. This service accepts no responsibility for material that may infringe upon the rights of others, including but not limited to copyrights, trademarks and patents. There is also no guarantee that the improved manuscript will be accepted by a publishing service, since each writer's site has its own specific guidelines and standards.