Remote -editor/Proofreader
Position Remote Copy-editor/Proofreader About the job Remote Copy-editor/Proofreader As a copy-editor or proofreader you'll ensure that material is clear, consistent, complete and credible, and that text is well written, grammatically correct and accessible. You'll be required to correct spelling, grammar and layout (proofreading), check content, use consistent styles and reword or rewrite (copy-editing).
Responsibilities
- correcting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors
- sub-editing text written by a number of executive to ensure consistent style
- working with IT-based publishing systems and databases, as well as via the internet or from paper manuscripts
- liaising regularly with clients by phone and email
- checking that clients have provided all the required materials and paperwork
- creating artwork briefs to detail the content of illustrations
- ensuring that illustrations are correctly captioned and referred to in the text
- producing or working to a style checklist to ensure consistency in hyphenation, capitalisation, formatting of references, etc
- maintaining awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage with a view to ensuring they're appropriate for the readership
- discussing and resolving any potentially libelous sections
- retrieving articles from archives and rearranging within publications
- overseeing the work of indexers, typesetters and designers #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply tot his job Apply To this Job Apply To This Job Apply tot his job Apply To this Job
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