our excellent and professional editing services enables your work to shine and your business to thrive
We offer quality and professional editing services and work in various formats – manuscripts, academic theses and dissertations, business documents, websites, blurbs, marketing matter and training material.
Our passion for all word matters and our professional editing services include: quality editing, proofreading and perfecting. Our focus is on style, content, grammar, language, spelling, punctuation, writing, layout and formatting … every detail matters to us!
- Development editing – structures the content to present it correctly and to make it flow. It may require a total rewrite or reorganisation. This is done prior to line editing.
- Manuscript, copy-editing or line editing – ensures that language is consistent and correct; improves content, organisation, tone, scope and length. The content may require rephrasing to eliminate ambiguity, for smoothness, tightening, reorganising, simplifying and for a final polish. Tables, graphs and pictures are also formatted.
what we can do for you
professional editing services
- Authors, writers and academics pour their hearts and souls into their work, becoming too close to be critical and to see their own mistakes; we catch those errors.
- We would never merely do a fancy spell-check or chatGPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer). That would be like using Google Translate to submit an important document in a foreign language. Poor spelling and inaccurate grammar would make your document look unprofessional and seem as if you couldn't be bothered to present excellent work.
- The meaning of a sentence can change depending on the punctuation used. Court cases have been lost on the incorrect use of a comma!
- If English isn’t your first language it can be difficult to get right (or is that write or rite)! Poor grammar could lead to the wrong understanding of your message.
- Editing and proofreading should be performed by different people other than the author or writer. It is as they say, 'a doctor needs a doctor'!
- Ensure that you are getting the best out of your academic work with a professional edit before you submit. Let us help you over that final hurdle.
- Our trained eye puts the information into context in a well-constructed sentence. Your work needs our fresh pair of eyes!
- We proofread as the last line of defence before your work is published.
- And yes, we do mentally edit the menu or badly written signs and drive our families crazy!
We turn your work into excellence by catching errors, imperfections and inconsistencies.
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‘Di & Merle provide the calmness, clarity, and guidance needed in today’s world of information overload. They helped me create a document that was clear and concise, and most importantly keeping “my voice”. Highly motivated and dedicated and cognisant of timelines. Very highly recommended.’
Laurette Schaefer (business client)
‘It was a pleasure to working with Merle. Her communication is great, her process works well and we were always on the same page with regards to the finalisation of my masters dissertation. Merle went above and beyond and responded to my emails on weekends, as she understood my time limitations. I would definitely recommend Merle to any working professionals who are writing their dissertation part-time.’
Francois Steyn (MCom student)