Professional copy editing from experienced copy editors

Professional copy editors transform draft document into compelling content that wins you more business.

When numerous people have contributed to a document, such as an article, blog, tender, proposal or report, you’ll know that the content needs a professional polish so that it reads as if written by one person. Other times, you may have written the content yourself and instinctively know that needs a good tidy. At these times, a professional copy editor will turn the content into gold.

Copy editors transform words into business winning content.

A copy editor does more than proofread your draft content. Proof Communications’ expert copy editors will turn your draft into professionally written content that flows, is grammatically correct and that is consistent in tone and style throughout.

Copy editing is the stage of the content production process between copywriting and proofreading. Copy editors do not write content from scratch. They review draft content written by someone else and make changes to it, sometimes rewriting or restructuring parts of the draft, to create a final document that is clear and succinct. They’ll proofread it too, as copy editors are usually great proofreaders. 

But if your document is especially significant, such as an annual report, it’s always wise to have a proofreader complete a final proofread of your document after the copy editing is finished. Proof Communications has long expertise in proofreading stakeholder documents, including annual reports.

Do you need copy editing services?

Proof Communications is a highly experienced copy editing company that will turn your draft content into professional business documents to win you more business or communicate your messages clearly. We know how to transform your words into compelling language that stands out from your competition and makes sense to your audience.

We’ll ask what it is that you want to achieve from your content and help you deliver it. Whether it’s to win a tender bid, proposal or contract, attract new prospects, report your effectiveness to stakeholders in a report, share your knowledge in a blog or thought leadership, or to win new customers with compelling marketing material, our copy editing will help.

With 20 plus years of copy editing expertise, we work efficiently and professionally to edit your business’ documents so they are clear, accurate, and more interesting and convincing to your readers.

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Professional copy editors help better promote your business’ value

With over two decades’ experience, Proof Communications is a team of highly experienced copy editors in Australia who’ve worked with leading national and global businesses and government on all kinds of written material – tenders and proposals, white papers, award submissions, annual reports, profiles (individual and business bios), articles, web copy, brochures and much more.

Sometimes we copy edit draft documents written by experts who need to turn their words into persuasive and interesting material for non-experts – people outside their industry who need to understand the terminology.

Other times we help marketing teams who want a bit more polish on their organisations’ documents.

For other clients, their stakeholder documents have been written by different people with different writing styles. In these cases, they call on our copy editing expertise to carefully copy edit the content so they can be confident that it makes sense throughout, that it speaks with one voice, that it flows, and that it’s free of typos and grammatical mistakes.

PROFESSIONAL COPY EDITING SERVICES TO HELP YOU WIN MORE BUSINESS

Proof Communications’ professional copy editors are whizzes at grammar, syntax and proofreading. They know their apostrophes from their comma splices and put their knowledge to good work for you. 

They have excellent, long-term experience of copy writing, proofreading and copy editing a variety of documents. For example, at Proof Communications the documents we work on range from a few pages to over 200 pages.  

You’ll find that our copy editors are adept at quickly understanding the content and context of your documents so that their edits are consistent throughout. This means, for example, that if a copy editor makes a change to a phrase on one page, they will change it every time it pops up. Consistency is very important, especially when copy editing significant stakeholder documents such as annual reports, product disclosure statements, reconciliation action plans, sustainability reports and initial public offering documents. Excellent copy editors are alert to this. 

An important part of copy editing is proofreading. Your copy editors need to be great proof readers, too. Proofreading is not for the faint-hearted. It requires enormous attention to detail and  significant concentration. Being able to correct typos, incorrect grammar and poorly constructed sentences are just part of a copy editor’s job, but an essential part. 

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With our trained eye, there’s a lot we’ll pick up to help your document positively gleam!

Your messaging will be clear and prominent.

We’ll keep your customers engaged by editing your communications to have the right tone and style for your audience.

There are two types of copy editing: light editing or substantive editing.

Light copy editing tidies up your content. We’ll correct grammatical mistakes and change some words to improve the sense and flow of the content and to ensure that it’s consistent. Because companies often call on different people from within their businesses to contribute to their marketing, sales and stakeholder documents, the content very often ends up with an inconsistent style or tone and plenty of errors.

Our copy editor might make suggestions to improve the structure and indicate content that doesn’t seem to make sense.

Substantive copy editing is much more in-depth copy editing. We’ll re-write elements of your document, perhaps re-structure the sequence of content by moving paragraphs around, reorder words in a sentence and create eye grabbing titles or headlines. 

It’s amazing how fresh eyes bring new perspective to language – often what you think makes sense needs further detail and context for someone outside of your organisation.

We’ll encourage your readers to take the next step – to contact you.

And we’ll save you time on those big documents you don’t have time for.

QUALITY GUARANTEE FOR COPY EDITING SERVICES

As well as bringing you more than 20 years’ experience of proofreading stakeholder documents, we are an ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems certified business – the only one of our kind in Australia.

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Get in touch with us today and find out how we can help your business achieve its goals through the written word.

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COPY EDITING FAQs

  • What are the benefits of copy editing as part of the professional content writing process?

    Our clients are often at the top of their field and possess a wealth of information about their industry. While they don’t need a copywriter to write all their content for them, their copy can at times be full of industry jargon, and may not be written with their audience in mind, thus not delivering the desired results.

    If this sounds familiar, that is where Proof Communications’ copy editing services come in. Unlike other copy editing companies in Australia, we specialise in business and enterprise clients. We are the experts when it comes to tender bids, awards entries, proposals, articles and reports. Our professional copy editors will polish your draft and turn it into content that is just right.

    When you get us onboard to perfect your draft, we can carry out two types of copy editing: light editing and substantive editing.

    If your draft is close to perfect, we’ll offer suggestions and make light modifications to enhance its readability and clarity. The other type of copy editing – substantive editing – involves major editing that encompasses both the lexical and grammar spheres, as well as the sentence, paragraph and whole text structuring. In both cases, the final copy is bound to persuade the reader and win you business.

  • What makes Proof Communications stand out from other professional copy editing companies?

    At Proof Communications, we are one of the leading professional editing services in Australia. The reasons why our customers love us are many, but the paramount one is that we deliver tangible results. Whether you are an SME, a start-up, a listed company, a government agent or any other kind of professional running a business, you need your copy to work in your favour. From tenders to business award entries, proposals, contracts, stakeholders’ reports and more, our copy editors can polish your draft and turn it into content that is just right.

  • What is the process of undertaking professional copy editing services by Proof Communications?

    Engaging our copy editing services is a quick and straightforward process. Simply get in touch with us online or give us a call on 02 8036 5532 to speak to us directly. We will discuss the scope and needs of your project, including providing guidance on whether your documents need copy editing or only proofreading. We move quickly and efficiently and work around tight deadlines. Reach out to us today if you are ready to transform your text into a compelling and engaging document.