Welcome to Editoria

Looking for a personalised editing or writing service? Editoria is a freelance business designed to provide quality editing and writing services for individuals, professionals and small to medium-sized organisations. Our passion is to work collaboratively to create succinct and accurate content that communicates clearly, elegantly and powerfully with its intended audience. We also strive to ensure that all clients receive value for money across every service.

What Editoria can do:

We provide various levels of editing to both professional and amateur writers. All changes or proposed modifications to the original document can be shown with tracked changes in a Word document ready for approval or rejection.

We can also draft a range of written documents such as articles, brochures, letters, newsletters, pamphlets and procedural manuals.

Editoria can edit:

Advertisements

Articles

Brochures & Pamphlets

Business Documents

Educational Materials

Manuscripts – Fiction & Non-fiction

Menus

Newsletters

Reports

Signage & Business Cards

Website Content

Levels of Editing:

Editoria can provide different levels of service, depending on the identified needs of a writing project.

Structural/Substantive Editing

This type of editing looks at the overall structure, clarity, theme, voice, content, coverage, language, and style of a document whilst assessing its suitability for the proposed audience. Structural editing often necessitates some rewriting. Other levels of editing are also usually required before the document is ready for publishing.

During this editing stage, the pace, structural organisation and pitch of the document are all evaluated with reference to the intended recipient. Factual inconsistencies are highlighted, as are areas that challenge clarity and reader comprehension.

Repetition, unnecessary jargon, redundant or irrelevant material, contradictions, wordiness, illogical flow, ambiguity, and awkward phrasing are all identified. Additional material such as titles, glossaries, abbreviations, symbols, headings, tables, figures and other illustrative materials are also checked for accuracy, appropriateness and positioning within the document.

Copyediting/Line editing

At the copyediting stage, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax are checked in detail to ensure clarity. This includes looking at noun/pronoun and subject/verb agreement, and the use of tense and structural parallelism. All documents are appraised for appropriate language use, with any suggested changes maintaining the author’s voice and meaning.

Abbreviations, hyphenation, capitalisation, references, typography, layout, figures, tables and captions, heading hierarchies and expressions of numbers are inspected for consistency and accuracy.

Fact-checking can also be implemented at this stage, if requested.

Proofreading

At the proofreading stage all forms of written documents are evaluated for spelling, typographical and punctuation issues. The document is then assessed to verify that it conforms to the house style nominated by the author. Missed spaces and widow and orphan lines (single lines left hanging at the beginning or end of a page) are identified.

Accuracy in cross-referencing, dates, quotations, hypertext links, bibliographic details, headers, footers, table of contents, captions and diagram labelling are checked, along with consistency in the use of font size, numbering, quotation marks, capitalisation, hyphenation, spelling, abbreviations, acronyms, italics and heading hierarchies.

Preliminary matter (cover, contents page, preface, acknowledgements, illustration lists, copyright and publication information), body text (abstract, text, tables, labels, footnotes/endnotes, captions, illustrative material, and running heads) and end matter (index, glossary, bibliography, lists, and appendices) are all verified to confirm that they are complete. Page numbers are then evaluated for consistency.

Comprehensive Edit

This level of editing involves a combination of each of these editing phases to produce a completed document ready for publishing.

Communication throughout your project can take place via phone calls, email, and Skype, depending on your preference.

To further understand the editing process, follow this link to the Institute of Professional Editors in Australia

Our Editor:

Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in English Literature and Psychology, and a Master of Arts in Literature & Writing with a specialisation in Professional Writing.

Editing:

Rachel has had editing experience in a University setting, providing structural/substantive editing, copyediting and proofreading to Masters students over a number of years. More recently she worked on a project with almost two dozen authors to produce a single cohesive document for publication.

Writing:

Prior to her editing work, Rachel was employed in both Schools and Public Health in NSW. She was involved in implementing and writing various programmes, including procedural documents. She also worked in a church office overseas, updating database information and writing and publishing a weekly information bulletin.

Editing rates:

Every writing project varies with regards to editing needs. Editoria is committed to providing quality editing at an affordable rate to as many authors as possible. For most editing work, quotes are organised either on a per page basis or an hourly rate, depending upon the nature of the project. The most recent IPEd survey of freelance editors reveals that editing rates vary between AU $30 and $110 per hour in Australia. We ensure that our services remain at the lower end of the market when charging for editing work.

Writing rates:

As with editing services, the cost of our writing services vary depending upon the scope of the work and the hours involved. Projects requiring extensive research will need additional hours allocated, affecting the total cost of producing the document.

Request a Quote:

If you would like to work with Rachel, please contact us by email or phone to explain your project. We will provide you with an obligation free quote alongside an estimated time frame as soon as we understand your needs. For editing projects, you will need to submit a cross-section of your work for us to analyse and give you an accurate quote.

If you have a limited editing budget it is also possible to restrict our editing service to the essential issues that you would like to focus on. Upon request, a sample of our editing can be provided in a Word document with track changes enabled.

For writing projects, you will need to outline in detail the requirements and intended audience of the document and provide us with all pertinent preliminary materials. Please note that in both cases the industry standard for a page is 250 words.

To get an idea of standard editing and writing charges you can follow this link to the Editorial Freelancers Association. Be aware that the figures are in USD and therefore do not correspond directly with the Australian rates quoted above.

If you’d like to get in touch, our contact details are shown above. This information is collected for the sole use of Editoria.

“Rachel from Editoria was approached about being the editor of a booklet that the Armidale Anglican Diocese was putting together, comprising of 25 articles written by 20 different authors. It wasn’t an easy job as each author had a different style and writing ability as reflected in each of the articles. However, Rachel’s work as editor was outstanding. She went well over and beyond our expectations. She worked extremely well liasing with diplomacy and wisdom, with the various authors to get an excellent finished product. She showed great attention to detail and professionalism in all her work. I am very pleased with the work she did for us and would happily recommend her for any editing or written work!”

Rev. Scott Dunlop, Chairman Diocesan CEM Commission, and Senior Minister Gunnedah Anglican Church