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Atkins Enterprises: editing and proofreading services

Atkent provides a copy-editing service to clients.

Definition: 
Copy editing means preparing text from a word-processed printed document (or its equivalent in computer file form) prior to typesetting or some form of desktop publishing, with the aim of ensuring the text is clear, concise and saying what the author means it to say.
The copy editor's job is to ensure that the author's ideas and language come through to the reader as clearly and easily as possible.
A copy editor has to ensure that...

• any grammatical errors are spotted and corrected;
• the structure of the whole piece makes it easy for the reader to follow;
• the content is complete and consistent;
• a typesetter knows how to set the final copy for publication;
• a query is raised with the author or publisher where a point arises where insufficient information is available to resolve all of the foregoing.

What follows is a copy-editing example...

Areas of specialism:
Business management, economics, finance, law and science (particularly physics and mathematics).
 

Recent clients: 
The Stationery Office
Orion Publishing Group
Kogan Page
Pearson Education
Sweet & Maxwell
Springer (Heidelberg)
Business Intelligence
Macmillan
 

Recent titles copy edited:
Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Several books in the Orion Toolkit series
The Wealthy Investor by Bernice Cohen (Orion Business)
Government Accounting (The Stationery Office)
PRINCE2 (1999 edn) by CCTA (The Stationery Office)
Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh Business School) MBA material (Pearson/FT Knowledge)
Comparative International Accounting (6^th edn) edited by Nobes and Parker (Pearson)
Facilitating Empowerment by Christine Hogan (Kogan Page)
Copyright and Designs Law (Sweet & Maxwell looseleaf)
Asset and Project Finance (Sweet & Maxwell looseleaf)
Fundamentals of Crystal Growth by B Mutafschiev (Springer)
Contact, Adhesion and Rupture of Elastic Solids by Daniel Maugis (Springer)
Strategic Human Resources (Business Intelligence)
The Big Four British Banks by David Rogers (Macmillan)

Work on legal texts has involved the tabling of statutes, cases, etc.
 

Equipment available for on-screen editing: 
Pentium III personal computer with Microsoft Windows98 and Word97, scanning facilities, IBM Viavoice, plus email and Internet links.
 

Fees: Rates on application
 

	Derek has been a member of the Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders since 1996 and has an entry in the Society's current Directory.
Derek is also
	Derek has been a member of the British Computer Society since 1975.

 

To email Derek Atkins at Atkent about any copy-editing or other work he could do for you, or any other enquiry, please click here.

Proprietor: Derek Atkins  47 Old Farm Avenue, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 8AD, UK

Tel: 020-8300-9808  Fax: 020-8300-5600  E-mail: atkins@compuserve.com