Why Copy Editing and Proofreading?

Copy editing and proofreading improve the professionalism of your documents and thus enhance your reputation.

Editors make sure your intended message is clear to your target market. In-depth editing produces information that is smoothly and concisely written. A good copy editor will eliminate jargon for general readers and maintain professional language for experts.

Whether it’s your website or brochure, a report or presentation, a proposal or lecture, you want your audience to clearly and easily understand what you want them to know. Ultimately, writing is for the reader, not the author, so a good editor views material from your readers’ perspective.

Proofreaders make sure there are no mistakes that will damage the credibility of your message. It is hard to trust a document (or its author) that has typos and grammatical errors or inconsistency and distracting mistakes in layout.

Editors and proofreaders will help make your text engaging, to the point, clear and error-free, ensuring that your readers grant your writing the highest credibility and respect. If a document doesn’t hold readers’ interest, they won’t read it. If they don’t read it, you’ve wasted your time and effort.

Why Professional Writing?

Good writing draws readers’ attention and holds it. A talented writer can clearly express your intended message and get you the results you want.

Writers can help you present your message to a particular audience when you don’t have the time or expertise to write it yourself. A good writer can take your concept and turn it into the text you need for a website, brochure, report, book, etc. We can write based on original research or your own notes. We can rewrite existing material or we can write collaboratively, sitting with you to get it done quickly and professionally.

Why Outsource?

• Save time and money

• Pay only for the work you need, when you need it

• Access writers, editors and proofreaders with specific expertise

• Allow your employees to concentrate on their own responsibilities

Why Mahoney Associates?

• Certification in Structural and Stylistic Editing, Copy Editing and Proofreading by the Editors’ Association of Canada
  

• A total of more than 40 years of experience writing, editing and proofreading
  

• A diverse background: many subject areas and types of projects
  

• Access to other freelance copy editors, proofreaders and writers
  

• Skills in a variety of writing services (writing, rewriting and collaborative writing)
  

• Expertise in design and development of Word templates to simplify document creation
  

• Access to trusted and experienced photographers, graphic designers, web designers and developers, and experts in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)