Up to 1500 words – £10 (minimum charge)
Do you have a company seeking to present ultra-professional website and marketing materials to clients and prospective clients?
Are you a student wishing to submit your essay or thesis in the clearest and most accurate way possible, to help achieve the best grades your hard work deserves?
Are you an author wanting your document or manuscript to be of the best quality possible?
For a reasonable fixed fee we will carefully check your work for punctuation, spelling, grammar, clarity, syntax, use of idiomatic English, consistent use of English or American punctuation and spelling, and for general consistency. Any passages that are repetitive, unclear or otherwise problematic will be highlighted.
All proofreading is undertaken by proofreaders with an experience of working for UK national newspapers/copywriters working for major UK organisations who are native English speakers.
We can edit and proofread in different ways:
1) changes can be made directly into the document and are visible only when compared with the original document;
2) Word documents can be corrected using the tracking function;
3) if requested, we can print the documents and correct them by hand, either returned by post (at extra charge) or scanned and sent back as a computer file.
Pricing
Proofreading fees are worked out per thousand words, not hourly, so you know exactly how much the editing will cost in advance. Once we have received your document we will give you a definite price according to the word count, as detailed below. Occasionally we are sent work which requires much greater levels of care and correction than normal. If this is the case we will contact you with a revised quotation which you are free to accept or decline. We guarantee to keep to the fee quoted.
Up to 1500 words – £10 (minimum charge)
1500 – 3000 words – 60p per 100 words
3100 – 5000 words – 55p per 100 words (minimum £18)
5100 – 8000 words – 50p per 100 words (minimum £27.50)
More than 8000 words – 45p per 1000 words (minimum £40)
The above prices are for a turnaround of a week (and turnaround is usually under this timeframe). For a 3-day turnaround add 20%, for a 48-hour turnaround add 35%, for a 24-hour turnaround add 55%, for same-day turnaround add 75%.
Payment options
Payment is in advance. You can pay by transferring the money electronically via the Bankers’ Automated Clearing Service (BACS), via PayPal or by cheque.
The proofreading process
1) Send your work as a document file attachment to our info@blackheathbusinesssolutions.com email address. Please confirm in that email that you have read and accept the terms and conditions. Please indicate whether an express service is required or whether you require the proofs to be corrected by hand on paper, or if a Word file, you want the corrections tracked
2) We will confirm receipt of your essay and the price and a date of return.
3) Make your payment by BACS, PayPal or cheque. Upon receipt of payment, your corrected work will be returned to you within the timescale agreed.
Terms and conditions
We guarantee confidentiality and will communicate only with the identified author of the work. No other party will have sight of the author’s work. We assume that the person sending the work is the author of the work. If very few or no changes to the work are required to achieve Standard English, the quoted fee remains payable. We will not advise on the content or accuracy of your work, or make corrections to any factual inaccuracies or misunderstandings. We will not identify or advise upon plagiarism and cannot be held responsible if any work supplied is cited as the subject of a plagiarism investigation. The word count includes such items as quotations, tables or figures that have been included. Sending us work for proofreading implies that the author has read and understood these terms and conditions and agrees to them.