Plain language editing

• What you get from us
• Our costs and how we charge

 What you get from us

 We take documents and make them readable to the audience they’re intended for. We do this by:

• structuring documents to give them maximum impact
• dealing with jargon and bureaucratic language
• using verbs for impact
• cutting over-writing
• imposing discipline on long sentences
• checking for consistent style
• checking against the client’s style guide (if they have one).

We’ve worked on:

• business letters
• corporate documents (such as corporate plans, annual reports and employee handbooks)
• guidelines and procedures
• reports (in-house, public, national and international)
• research papers
• studies
• websites.

 Some clients also ask us to mentor their writers. We’ve worked as mentors both by sitting down beside writers and reviewing their work, and – more often – by email.

 Our costs and what we charge

 We charge £375 a day for editing. This doesn’t include VAT. We charge for the actual hours we work.

 If you ask us to edit something, we’ll:

• talk to you about what you want, what you’d like it to achieve and who it’s for
• agree a clear brief with you
• set a deadline for when you want the job finished.

We’ll estimate how long we think the work will take, but we’ll charge only for the hours we work.

Sometimes a job will take longer than we – or you – expected. If this happens we’ll let you know as soon as we can and agree what you want us to do.