Difference Between Editing and Proofreading Services

• Proofreading aims to correct all errors in grammar, punctuation, syntax, and spelling in a manuscript. If you wish to see whether the final version of your document contains any minor errors, then you need proofreading services instead of editing services.
• Editing necessitates more of an extra effort from an editor than does proofreading. Our editing service will improve the academic quality of your manuscript, hence the content, overall structure, quality of findings and analysis, simplicity, and referencing.
• Editing will mostly make some fundamental changes to improve the standard of the academic writing of the document. Accordingly, editors will sometimes re-write some parts of your document. This is especially important because an editing service aims to guarantee that the purposes of the document are met.
• An editing service ensures that a paper is error-free. Thus, an editor will correct all errors in grammar, typography, punctuation, syntax, and spelling in a manuscript. In this sense, the editing service includes proofreading service as well. However, strictly speaking, proofreading your document is the last stage before it is delivered to you. Therefore, even if an editor has corrected many of the errors that a proofreader would correct, the document must still pass through this last stage—proofreading.
• Our editing services will format your documents for journal submission. Where the manuscript is one intended for publication in a journal, the primary aim of formatting is to ensure that your manuscript text is consistent with your journal guidelines. This includes layout, font selection, spacing, formatting of headings, in-text citations and references, title page check, a check to ensure the appropriate placement of tables and figures as well as the inclusion of all required sections.
• Editing does not cover academic writing or extensive formatting. If the text requires extensive journal-specific formatting (e.g., creating a reference list, adding missing citations), the assigned editor will include a detailed note about how the text did not meet the formatting requirements.
• Please note that the creation of a reference list with a full reference to every citation in the text and every work cited in the notes, placing the reference at the appropriate point in the text, or adding citations to narrative parts of the manuscript, etc., is beyond our editing service and requires extensive formatting service.
• That means the assigned editor will check your existing formatting and fix the detected issues but will not create a new reference list or add missing citations, endnotes, or footnotes as these corrective measures fall outside of the responsibility of the editor.
• Whether your document is a dissertation, a master’s thesis, a term paper, or a business document, to make it shine, we mostly advise our clients to opt for editing services instead of proofreading services.

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• Our experienced/doctorally qualified editors will perform a complete review to improve your dissertation, thesis, or essay. Best Edit & Proof mainly aims to add real, measurable value to the quality of your document by providing accurate editing and proofreading services.
• Our subject-matter editors have extensive knowledge and experience in their field. This enables us to provide high-quality services for a variety of disciplines ranging from engineering to medicine to the arts and humanities.
• Our team comprises editors who are experts in the creative academic writing process and critical thinking strategies for postgraduate, graduate, and undergraduate levels, that is, from dissertations to college-level assignments.

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