Quality control is my passion. I have a perfectionist's eye for detail, and my background in linguistics and journalism has given me the understanding of the structure of language needed to produce a reader-friendly, coherent text that honors the semantic, syntactic, morphological and pragmatic nuances of language. In addition, I studied typography as part of my journalism class in visual communication.
I distinguish between editing and proofreading as follows:
- Editing — the target text is checked sentence by sentence against the source text to ensure accuracy of translation. Naturally, it is also checked for linguistic accuracy and reader-friendliness.
- Proofreading — the target text is checked for linguistic accuracy and reader-friendliness, but only compared to the source text if something seems amiss.
Download this PDF to see examples of the kinds of changes I would typically make.
