Minimal direct edits to correct outright grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors and maintain consistency with the document’s established style.

Edits and suggestions for revisions to avoid awkward phrasing, wordiness, excessive passive voice, and repetitiveness and to address consistency of tone and voice. Includes ensuring correct spelling and style of proper nouns and revisions for consistency with a style manual or in-house style guide.

Direct editing at the sentence level to improve flow and coherence by adding, deleting, and moving sentences or small pieces of text.

Level 1: Standardizing the use of fonts throughout the document, including text, table and figure labels, editable table and figure content, headers, sub-headers, font type, font size, bold, italics, underlining, justification.

Level 2: Numbering sections and subsections, numbering tables and figures in the order mentioned in the text, ensuring each figure and table is mentioned at the appropriate place, and ensuring acronyms are spelled out only the first time they appear.

Level 3: Table of contents, standardizing captions, creating lists of figures, tables, acronyms, adding page or section breaks, etc.

Format a Word doc. ready to upload as an eBook to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). *I don’t currently offer formatting for Amazon print books.

(APA 7, Chicago/Turabian 17, Harvard, IEEE, MLA 9)
Level 1: Citation formatting includes checking that all citations are in the reference list and vice versa and ensuring consistency in reference and citation style.

Level 2: In-depth citation formatting includes ensuring adherence to a specified style of references/citations, converting styles, finding cited data sources where needed, and adding info to the reference list/citations.