Editing Inquiry Checklist

Copyediting is done at various levels. Please take a moment to note some of the items below to help me form a general idea of your requirements.

Type of Text

--Book

--Ph.D. Dissertation

--Dissertation Proposal

--Master's Thesis

Do you need editorial style checking?

If so, what is the governing style?

--Chicago Manual of Style

--APA

--MLA

--Other

Does your text have tables, graphs, photos, or other illustrations with captions that would need checking?

Depth of Editing

--Grammar, punctuation, spelling only

--Check for proper word usage

--Only mark for possible rewrite

--Re-word, rewrite at all levels

--Read for over-all content

Does your text need fact checking?