Proofreading
Hi, Welcome to the last of my sites to be developed. It's still under construction, but already looks better than the previous holding page, so it might as well be online. I'll fill out the content and iron out the styles soon.
OK, here's the SHTICK. Are you looking for an old-fashioned human proofreading service? I think that you may be a dying breed, but in any case there are possibly still a few people who prefer a human to a machine. I spent many years in the academic world, and subsequently an equal number of years teaching English, so I'm in a pretty good position to go through any English text, academic or otherwise, with a fine-toothed comb. As long as I have reasonable advanced notice, I am able to plough through any text in super quick time. I won't be as fast as ChatGPT, but I also won't behave like a machine that can be detected by some software.
Sooooo, if you are in that position, go ahead and get in touch. You will soon find samples of work that I corrected in the past.
The way that I charge for proofreading works like this: I would ask you to send as much of your writing as you currently have, in order for me to look at several samples, and make a balanced assessment of how much time the work will take. Charging by the hour doesn't work for proofreading, of course. My preferred method is to have several rates which I will charge per thousand words of text. More on that later. It's WORK IN PROGRESS here 👷
While the site is still in development, I'd like to ask my allies and friends (and newcoming sympathetic parties :~) to help me out a bit. Contrary to what you may have understood from advertising that you've heard on podcasts or elsewhere, creating a beautiful website, which you can maintain and update for years to come, without paying endless exhorbitant rent, is no trivial process. I've done all of this by myself, and I'm quite proud of that. But the job isn't done yet. There are still decisions to be made about fonts and colours schemes for this site, and for a couple of the others which I have been working on. Find them all here.
Not much else to say for now. I'll be back soon with samples and more SHTICK. All the best for now.