Audio Transcription: Rate Per Page (A page consists of 350 words or less) Turnaround time Per page Next Day Service $12.00 3 days $10.00 7 days $7.00 14 days $5.00 Add .25 for:
- 4 or more speakers
- Any audio with significant noise in the background.
- Poor recording, soft voices, thick accents, echo reverb, etc…
- Scientific terminology
- Medical terminology
- Panel discussions, focus groups, conference calls, seminars.
Editing Rates My rates are in balance to my education, experience and skills. I base them from the Writer’s Market average freelance hourly or per page calculator. In most cases I will be able to edit about 10 pages per hour. I follow the rules of American English and British English. Structure Editing
- Restructure content to attain consistent organization of ideas & comprehensible structure
- Adjust content, including lessening or increasing to accomplish the length necessity
- Text formatting, spacing and neatness adjustments
- Delete repetition or improve and compliment transitional signals
Proofreading
- Ensure there are no typographical errors remaining
- See that nothing relevant has been omitted
- Ensure esthetic issues are resolved (for ex., clean up any accidental typos or words broken up at the end of a column or page)
- Catch grammatical errors or inconsistency in style
RATE: $4.00 per page or $35 per hour. Content Editing
- Look for issues related to pacing, sentence structure & readability, theme & overall effectiveness of the story or document
- Correct any error in grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling & font formatting
- Determine the needs of any reference and citation to avoid plagiarism
- Look for any potential legal problems and discuss them with the author or publisher upon author’s request
- Check the relation between title & content, suggest modifications to title if needed
- Confirm the correct usage of quotations
- Confirm the correct usage of particular nouns, names of place, person, object, etc.
- Assure consistency in spelling, capitalization and style throughout document/ manuscript
- Clean up word repetition by rewording when appropriate and without losing effect
- Assure text is well written and logically structured
- Check facts and raise queries with the author where needed
- Check that illustrations and captions are correct
Copy Editing
- Certify that writing adheres to conventions of grammar
- Confirm that wording is precise and consistent
- Confirm that punctuation is appropriate and correctly placed
- Suggest or do appropriate reorganization
- Recommend changes to titles or subheadings
- Call attention to lapses in logic or sequential slip’s
- Confirms that all proper nouns are capitalized consistently
- Improve style, maintaining its fluidity and consistency
Line Editing
- Check language related techniques, word choice, paragraph structure, sentence flow, and language-related techniques
- Check voice, style, readability,
- In fiction, check the difference between scenes and clarification
- Eliminate cliché (words that are wasted/phrases that are overused)
- Eliminate unnecessary modifiers (words that lessen the impact of your prose)
- Eliminate repeated words and phrases
RATES: $5.50 regular rate add .50¢ for highly technical (where I may need to research more often) Or $45 per hour.