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Subtitle & script proofreading

Subtitle & script proofreading is crucial to get your documentary ideas across to the audience, without them focusing on typos. How can I help? I have helped businesses, such as universities and translation companies, and individuals to check subtitles and scripts beforehand. As a native-English speaker I have helped them Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 9 months7 months ago
Business writing

Recommendations update

Recommendations are the key to any business like mine. They demonstrate that previous clients have trusted me with their work. Even more: that they have been happy with the outcome. Yes, I am a serious proofreader! So, I thought, I would showcase my current proofreading recommendations today.   Recommendations for Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 11 months2 months ago
Business writing

Why do I proofread?

I love writing I started proofreading and editing theses when I finished my first postdoc. The reason? I have always loved writing. Hearing about friends’ awful experiences with unqualified proof-readers (not all are unqualified) I knew I could help. Imagine a master’s student trying to proofread a thesis of 90,000 Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 12 months2 months ago
Business writing

Cut these words to improve your writing

Cut these filler words to tighten your writing. Cut those words and still stuck? If you would like futher proofreading help get in touch. I can help you with a quick typo check, or more detailed grammar check. Who is Emma? Emma is a proofreader with 18 years of writing Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 3 years ago
Business writing

Effective Business Communication Skills

Communication is a general phenomena. Wherever life exists, communication also exists. You cannot have human relation without communication. However, good and effective communication is essential not only for good human relations but also for excellent and successful business. If we talk about the professional world, what professionals do more than Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 3 years7 months ago
Business writing

Grammarly: its services just aren’t that good.

As someone who had been testing out Grammarly’s services for a few months, … nothing the company does could allay its true underlying problem: its services just aren’t that good. …many of the “fixes” in Grammarly’s advertisements are either unhelpful or actively wrong. For example, in the sentence, “Let’s suppose you’re Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 4 years ago
Business writing

Be concise: cut the waffle from your business writing

I remember when I was working at Scottish Widows, we received a vast number of emails a day. Some contained important information to read through, but others were too long and meandering, and the same for documents. I wonder how many were skim-read? Being concise is the general rule. Even Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 4 years4 years ago
Business writing

Who or Whom? Getting it right for business documents.

In informal writing, we don’t have to worry about the difference as it’s perfectly acceptable to use who. For formal and business writing it comes in handy to know the difference.   When to use who If you can replace the word with ‘he’ or ‘she’ then use who. Example: Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 4 years2 years ago
Business writing

Translation proofreading: 5 reasons translation & proofreading are well-matched

Don’t be like the book or movie lost in translation; instead, anticipate hiring a proofreader for the final polish of your document (known as translation proofreading). I have proofread film scripts and websites that have been translated via software and via people. The process of translating words or text from Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 4 years3 years ago
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Proofreading and copyediting

“Emma worked in a time-bound manner and provided detailed and relevant feedback on my chapters. Her attention to detail was amazing throughout. In addition to taking care of my punctuation and typos Emma offered ideas for alternate terminology and paragraph/sentence structure to improve the flow of the text and make Read more…

By Emma Parfitt, 6 years2 months ago

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