What to gain from a text development edit?

I believe that I can help make your text more coherent, precise, and easier to understand.

Increase coherence

Text development aims to clarify and improve the structure of the text and create a more coherent content. Very often the material includes all the necessary information but some sections or paragraphs are poorly structured. I can help improve the text by pointing out repetition, suggesting restructuring and edits to create a better content.

Polish for easier understanding

As the audience may know less about the material than the author, some discussions and explanations need to be more elaborated. I focus on making sure that the content and the main messages are clearly formulated and explained. I check whether the definitions are unambiguous and the technical terms are used consistently. When a point is clear but hard to fathom I suggest adding examples.

Check information for a higher precision

Materials in applied social science or business often include a range of numbers and exhibits: tables, graphs, or even maps. An essential aspect of quality is to check the consistency of all the figures throughout the material. To that end, I compare numbers in text and exhibits to make sure they match. I check if graph axes, table headings and footnotes are properly written and displayed, if the same currency is used throughout the text or if graphs are readable at all.