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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
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