Think Communications offers…

Editing

Project editing  •  Coordinate and edit a project from proposal or rough manuscript to final manuscript, incorporating input from authors, consultants and reviewers. May include budgeting, hiring, design supervision, project coordination and dealing with print providers.

Manuscript evaluation  •  Review manuscript for tone, language level, characterization, voice, point of view, structure, logic, plot inconsistencies and other issues.

Structural editing  •  Ensure the progression of ideas or flow of information or story makes sense and is suitable for the intended audience; eliminate redundancy or superfluous material and strengthen transitions where appropriate; make suggestions for headings or other elements to help with navigation; check positioning of visual elements.

Stylistic editing (sometimes called “line editing”)  •  Clarify meaning, eliminate jargon, smooth language (e.g., ensure tone and vocabulary are appropriate for the audience). May include addressing sentence- or paragraph-level structure, checking or correcting reading level.

Copy editing  •  Edit for grammar, spelling, punctuation and other mechanics of style; check for consistency of mechanics and internal consistency of facts. May include Canadianizing; metrication; editing captions and/or credit lines; flagging material for copyright compliance/permissions needed; checking table of contents headings are consistent with text.

Production editing  •  Ensure integration of design and content. May include mark-up, checking page elements such as folios, headings, widows/orphans and/or checking page impositions and high-res colour proofs. May also include locating, negotiating with and supervising designer, artists, typesetter and printer and creating a production schedule.

Proofreading  •  Examine material after layout or in its final format to correct errors in textual and visual elements. May include checking accuracy of running heads, folios and changes made to type in previous stages, checking page breaks and location of art, and inserting page numbers to table of contents and cross-references if necessary. May also include checking page impositions and high-res colour proofs.

Design

Publication design  •  Design publication content, incorporating elements such as layout, typeface, colour, graphic/photographic elements.

Website design  •  Develop the design and layout concept, incorporating elements such as typeface, colour, visual elements; build an architecture so that content is presented logically and is easy to find.

Layout  •  Lay out a publication according to a set design; includes considerations like page breaks, widows/orphans, integration of graphic/photographic elements.

Formatting  •  Style text, headings, citations, quotations in a manuscript or document in preparation for design/layout.

Writing

Features, reports, interviews, social media posts (Facebook, Twitter), blurbs, captions, deks; copywriting.

Transcribing

Interviews, workshops, Hansard (legislative proceedings)  •  Transcription editing

MEDIA/FORMATS:

Books (academic, educational, textbooks, guidebooks, fiction, nonfiction, memoir) • magazines • newsletters • Hansard • online learning modules • theses • monographs • essays• literature reviews • directories • catalogues • reports • speeches• talking points • communiqués • issue notes • social media • transcripts • websites • promotional material.

SUBJECTS I’VE WORKED ON:

Adoption, alcoholism, Antigua, Arctic, art, audio, barefooting, biography, biology, brain, business coaching, business development and retention, business leadership, Camino, Canadian authors, Canadian Charter, Canadian Kennel Club, CKC, caregiving, circumcision (female), condense, condensing, Couchiching, copywriting, course, COVID-19, creative non-fiction, creativity, curriculum, detective, directory, dogs, Dubus, economic development, education, Emond, energy, English as a Second Language, ESL, entertainment, environment, fantasy, feature, festivals, film, flyers, formatting, G20 summit, G20 Finance Track, G20 Sherpa Track, government, green business, Green Party of Ontario, groundwater, Group of Twenty, Hansard, history, holistic health, hotels, humour, Indo-Pacfic strategy, interview, investment software, job hunting, land conservancy, land conservation, law, Leacock, legislative proceedings, legislature, lesson plans, line editing, listings, literary criticism, literature, localization, managing editor, memoir, movies, Muskoka, mystery, nature, neuroscience, nonprofit housing, Northwest Territories, NWT, novel, novels, online editing, organic lawncare, parent, parents, parenting, peacekeeping, personal development, pets, photography, placemaking, policy, post-Ice Age, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, prehistoric Arctic, press kit, press release, promotion, public art, publishing, recreation, reports, rent geared to income, rewrite, romance, Saudi Arabia, SEO optimization, social marketing, solar power, speculative fiction, spirituality, STEM (lit review), street art, students, survival, suspense, sustainability, taekwondo, teaching, teamwork, thesis, thriller, travel/tourism, transcribe, transcription, travel, twins, volunteer, website editing, wolf, wolves, WordPress, yoga, young adult, youth.

ALSO INTERESTED IN:

addiction, allergies, criticism, environmental protection, feminism, film, food and drink, hiking, home repair and renovations, interior design, literature, music, nature, philosophy, politics, psychology, running, rowing, social justice, sustainability, veganism, vegetarianism.