Most authors dream about sharing their writing with people around the world. You have the talent to create wonderful writing, poetry or dialogue, but not the patience to work on your spelling, grammar or structure. This is where BetterEdit can help. We do the proofing and editing to a professional standard, while you work on that next novel. Our skills are technical, yours are creative, and together we prepare your writing for publication.

The BetterEdit clientele
Our services have been utilised by writers in many different situations. We help authors to make a good first impression when applying to publishing companies. A writer may be fed up with rejections and has decided to publish their work themselves and looks to BetterEdit for editing. Or perhaps an author just needs a second pair of eyes to proofread and provide that professional touch.

Professional Staff
Our editors have had years of experience editing a range of documents. Often our staff have had their own writing published and understand what publishers and the public are looking for. If your work is from a specialist, technical or academic field, chances are we have someone available with a background in that area. If you are concerned that your writing may lose its "style" or "feel", we can have an editor work closely with you section by section, so you retain creative control.

What we do
You will be assigned an editor that will:

Proofread
A proofread will analyse your document for basic errors including:

• Spelling and punctuation
• Appropriate vocabulary
• Typographical errors
• Font style and font size errors
• Sentence or letter spacing errors

followed by an

Edit
A line by line review of your work for structural and consistency problems. The following areas will be improved:

• Word selection
• Solecisms and syntax
• Repetition, ambiguity and redundancy
• Omissions and inconsistencies
• Structural disorganisation and logical progression
• Consistency of style

and also

• Maintenance of your tone/voice
• Eliminate verbosity and rambling

In doing this we will make the necessary changes to ensure that your work is coherent and concise, has internal consistency, and is organised upon logical principles. In short, we will clean up any aspects of awkward writing and convert confusion to clarity.

Turnaround Time
The length of the editing process is entirely dependent on the size of the work, the level of editing required and how much interaction with the client is necessary. For jobs required in less than 12 hours turnaround, please phone 1300 136874 (Australia) to confirm that we will be able to meet your deadline.

Pricing and Payment
View our pricing and payment page for a breakdown of our fees.

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Please go to the submit section and follow the instructions there.

Questions
Please contact us if you have any concerns or questions.