Intelligent Verbatim

In today's highly competitive market, having your work checked by a professional proofreading and editing service ensures top quality results.

A document or website that contains spelling mistakes, poor punctuation and awkward sentence structure is unprofessional and can ultimately result in the loss of potential customers, or in points being taken off your thesis. If the content of your work is not clear your words will lose their impact, and ultimately your reader.

Once a badly proofed document is published or submitted it is too late to change it! Whether you have written a business document, advertising copy or an academic thesis, Intelligent Verbatim is here to help!

Why struggle with grammar and spelling when our editing service, provided by experienced editors, is on hand to spot mistakes and rectify them? Use our editing service to help you present your work to its best advantage.

Intelligent Verbatim offers a copy editing service; we first conduct a basic proof and then go on to look for poor syntax, poor general structure, repetition, redundancy, contradiction or inconsistency. This is done on-screen so that we can use Microsoft's ‘Track Changes' function or a similar device, like highlighting in colour, to (a) make the changes and (b) clearly illustrate what's been changed, for your reference.

Understandably, the copy editing service costs more than proofing, because it takes about three times as long and includes a basic proof as well.

Rewriting is the biggest and most time-consuming role provided by an editing service and involves rewriting phrases, sentences, paragraphs or sections to achieve better flow, more coherence, clearer logic, more appropriate vocabulary or, if necessary, to add more meat to the bones of a skinny piece.

* A page for editing purposes is 360 words.

Copy editing: R35 per page or R40-R50 per page for medical terminology or industry-specific terminology / jargon.

Rewriting: R45 per page or R45-R55 per page for medical terminology or industry-specific terminology / jargon. Student rate to bone fide full-time students – 10% below normal rates.