Technical Editing
Even the best writers benefit immensely from professional technical editing services. Expert Support editors provide many kinds of editorial services to our team of writers, as well as our clients.
Technical Editing Help When You Need It
Do you need help with technical editing? If so, we’d love to learn more about the challenges you face, and explore how we can help.
Developmental Editing
Expert Support editors can provide developmental editing support and writer coaching. Here, the editor collaborates with the writer on outlines and early drafts to find the best ways to achieve the document’s intended goal. A developmental edit or peer review also identifies missing areas, unclear or unnecessary copy, and flow and organization issues. Developmental edits also assess the value and accuracy of images and illustrations. Developmental editing and writer coaching provide an experienced, supportive perspective that shares the writer’s goals, and collaborates on the content to effectively achieve them.
Copy Editing
When a writer finishes a document, copy editing services prior to publication improve the effectiveness of the document. A copy editor checks for proper use of grammar, conformance to style guides, effective sentence structure, passive vs active voice, proper use of terminology, and correct use of capitalization and punctuation. This level of editing assumes that the text is nearly ready to publish and focuses the effort on correcting errors. As a result, the edited and corrected text is easier to read and becomes more effective.
Proofreading
Expert Support also provides proofing services that eliminate previously overlooked errors. The proofer ensures there are no spelling errors, all the links work, there are no typographical or formatting errors, and so on.
Also, proofing after moving documentation from one content management system to another ensures no errors were introduced during the migration.
Editorial Leadership
Expert Support can create and update documents that help maintain consistency across an organization of writers and editors. Our editors can create and update style guides, glossaries of terms, approved word lists, copyright usage instructions, and other such internal references that can help an organization adopt and follow consistent conventions across vast content libraries.
Expert Support editors can also oversee production tasks, including conversions from one tool to another, reformatting, or content merges resulting from acquisitions or mergers.