As a copyeditor, I’ll weed out typos and errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, treatment of numbers, sentence structure, formatting, and citation style. I’ll also flag any biased language and awkward or confusing sentences. If your manuscript needs copyright permissions or reformatting to publication standards, you’ll get those too.
My tools for ensuring correctness and enforcing consistency include a dictionary and the relevant style guide (Chicago Manual of Style, Associated Press Stylebook, Publication Manual of the APA, MLA Handbook, or an in-house style guide).
My edited version of your text will show what revisions I am suggesting and will allow you to accept or reject each one.
After you have reviewed the edited version, we’ll do a second pass to clear up any lingering problems.