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text fixer
I am a seasoned Montreal-based journalist, fact-checker, proofreader, and copyeditor with experience handling Canadian, U.S., and British vernacular.
One recent contract has been to ensure that the English translation of a French document rings true to anglophones, and is otherwise perfect in every way.
Ensure that your document or website displays your professionalism. Hire someone who cares about that, too!
Writing should be clear, concise, and compelling. It often isn’t. Sometimes it's difficult to even find the right words.
People writing in their field of expertise are not necessarily adept at explaining what they do to outsiders, and grammar fixers can’t fix that.
Similarly, writers’ eyes can skip past problems in their own text, due to repetition fatigue (when you have not only written the sentence, but read it over and over…).