Editing
This service implies the revision and fine-tuning of a text written in a specific language (English or Spanish) so that it complies with the standards required by you, your client or to comply with the standards covertly imposed by the receiving culture.
What do we do?
When we edit a text, we polish it to the maximum. During this stage, we read the text to check linguistic, semantic, pragmatic, stylistic aspects and format.
The objective of this service is to have a final product that sounds natural and reads fluently. During this process, we eliminate repeated words, correct verb tenses, provide synonyms, correct and modify punctuation. We also check and focus on cohesion and coherence. We aim at having a smooth transition between ideas, that we are able to get the nuances of meanings across and avoid confusions.
Likewise, we pay special attention to genres. We make sure that the text being analyzed complies with the prototypical features of a specific genre. For example, if we are analyzing a contract, we expect to find as the opening statement, the appearance clause. This is what we understand by prototypical features of a genre.
