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Technical Writing & Editing Services for Reports, Proposals, Planning Documents, and Manuals
For some projects, Plateau TechComm can create documentation from scratch using legacy documents, tabulated data, maps, graphs, and other illustrations, in conjunction with interviews (and, in the case of software or hardware manuals, hands-on experience). For most projects, however, Nancy Riccio works from a rough draft — or, more commonly, a collection of rough drafts — from one or more authors. Although her specialty is “substantive editing,” she can tailor her services to fit the scope and budget of your project.
Copyediting involves correcting grammatical, spelling, usage, and punctuation errors. Substantive editing — recommended for reports and other documents with multiple authors — requires a more rigorous, analytical approach that involves:
• Ensuring consistency in style and terminology
• Cross-checking text with data in figures and tables
• Checking for redundancies and discrepancies
• Adding “usability aids” for readers — headings, overview information, explanations, cross-references, formatting, (in some cases) an index, and other features
• Ensuring that the style and tone of the document is appropriate for its intended audience
• Flagging content gaps and possible factual errors
• Reorganizing the document if necessary so that concepts build on each other and readers can find information easily
• Correcting grammatical, spelling, usage, and punctuation errors
Because substantive editing can vastly improve the quality of your documents, it’s especially important for reports that will be scrutinized by the public, regulatory agencies, other professionals, and prospective clients.
Click here to see descriptions of some of Plateau TechComm’s recent writing and editing projects.
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