The Most Important Service We Offer
Thompson InkWorks edits a wide variety of materials on a reagular basis. Some of our projects include:
- Academic Editing — applications, papers, dissertations, peer reviews, grants and more . . .
- Book and Literary Editing — books, poetry, essays, articles, reference works, abstracts and more . . .
- Business Editing — marketing and product collateral, correspondence, brochures, sales letters, newsletters, catalogs and more . . .
- Film and Rich Media Editng — scripts and screenplays, treatments, synopses, production reports, storyboards and more . . .
- Technical Editing — case histories, white papers, product highlights, user instructions and manuals, trade artices, indexes and more . . .
- Web Content Editing — e-Commerce, blogs, news, reviews, analytics and reporting, content management and more . . .
- Pre-production and Post-production Services — digital transcriptions from handwritten material and voice recordings, hardcopy printouts, CD burning, special mailing services and more . . .
Comprehensive editing—online and offline.
Red Ink Sometimes existing content needs a little help. Perhaps the writing isn’t as focused as it needs to be. Perhaps it’s not resonating as desired with its intended audience. Perhaps it’s something as simple as cleaning up the mechanical aspects of writing, like grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax. Every area of writing requires unique skills and techniques. Business editing must appeal to the customer. Technical editing must satisfy the technical audience. Online editing must engage the online visitor quickly and guide them to take action. Creative editing must bring out the story, develop the characters, intrigue, delight, and entertain the reader.
Our editing services include:
- Proofreading for correcting capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and format.
- Copyediting for clarity and focus and to clear up awkward phrasing, style, structure, and wording.
- Substantive editing for reworking and rewriting as needed with an actively collaborative focus for optimal results.
Of course, all written content provided by our writers is subject to our own close editing as part of our process. We believe that editing is so critical to writing and content development, that it is indeed the fifth and most important area of services we offer. At Thompson InkWorks, we take our editing services very seriously. Great editing should be completely transparent. When it is, it yields important critical benefits:
- A well edited document lets the underlying writing shine.
- During editing, we work closely with and engage you in the entire process of communication to produce rock-solid, standards-based content. Editing provides the most direct path to work with the overall process of communication and an insistence on standards-based content that’s rock solid.
- Editing works from a bird’s eye view to integrate the writing and the content for the intended audience—necessary to all successful communications.
- It is nearly impossible for writers and content creators to objectively look at their own work; a good editor lends a critical, yet friendly eye to the work, which helps the end result.
- Overall, editing contributes to the excellence we strive to convey in our work, our creative endeavors, and our lives.
Our editing services draw from a variety of online and offline experiences and disciplines. Before all else, Thompson InkWorks editors are excellent communicators. After all, we were writers, business persons, customers, technologists, and content developers before we became editors. We know what people expect and we know what it takes to lay down the red ink to satisfy that expectation.
