Proofreading

English-Fast offers a quality English proofreading service. Let us help you to be confident that your texts are written in perfect English.

You may have written a report for work, you may be a doctoral candidate with a dissertation that needs checking, you may be responsible for your company website or you may be an author with an unpublished work - whoever you are and whatever the task may be, English-Fast can help.

If you are producing a document about a quality concept or product, then writing in perfect English is vitally important. It is hard to trust a company that offers 'excellence' when its own advertisements are below standard. We have probably all seen many examples of this.

How can we help you?
Our goal is to provide you with the very best service in checking documents in English at a reasonable, affordable price. We aim to work thoroughly but also quickly as we know that you not only want a quality service but a swift one too. 

Proofreading involves the details of language use: checking text for spelling and typographical errors; for consistency of UK or US English; for simple grammar errors; for missing or overuse of punctuation.

Copy editing takes us longer than proofreading. Here we are looking more at the sense of what has been written and how natural the language used is. In addition, our copy editing may comment on presentation and style.

For examples of the kind of problems that we see on the Internet, look at our Problem Page. The answers show our suggestions for improvement which involve a mixture of proofreading and copy editing changes.

The more work we need to do on your document, the longer it takes us. For that reason we are happy to give you a quotation once we have seen the document (if it's a short one) or 4 example pages (if it's a long one).

For more information, please contact us by email. We look forward to working with you.

PAGES FOR IMPROVEMENT
We frequently find errors in the use of the English language in letters, company literature, websites and other important documents. Many mistakes are being made publicly.

Whatever is the cause of such errors, most professionals do not want their high standards in business to be represented by less than perfect advertisements. Our proofreading service will ensure that your language errors will become a thing of the past. By using our service, you need never doubt the quality of your texts again.

Consider for a moment, why are errors made in texts?
There are many possible reasons.
1. SPELL CHECKER - it is a case of 'let the user beware'. The writer needs to be more than just proficient in English grammar. Why? It’s because English has different spellings for words which have the same sounds. A spell check programme is unable to tell if you want to use ‘there’ or ‘their’, ‘know’ or ‘no’, ‘knight’ or ‘night’. There are many examples in English like these.
2. GRAMMAR CHECKER - again the writer has to know English grammar well enough to make decisions about the queries which are highlighted.
3. TYPOGRAPHICAL - such errors created by typists may go unchecked and names of people, places and things may be misrepresented.
4. OVERUSE OF PCs - it is tiring to proofread on the computer screen and detail can be overlooked. That's where another pair of eyes looking carefully at your work can be useful.
5. DEADLINES/PRESSURE OF WORK - deadlines for publication often cause errors in presentation that slip through your quality control. When you are trying to work hastily, there are often small errors that you just don't see.

How can we help you?
We will proofread your documents thoroughly, after which you need never doubt the quality of your texts. Any work will be considered, no matter how short or how long.

Documents should be sent by email in either .doc or .html format. For website checking, just send us the address.