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Remote Copy-editor/Proofreader

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Texas (USA)
Full time
English

Other Skills

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    Grammar
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    Team Leadership
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    Communication
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    Time Management
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    Organizational Skills
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    Detail Oriented

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Strong copy-editing and proofreading skills with attention to grammar, spelling and clarity
  • Experience applying style guides and ensuring consistency in hyphenation, capitalization and references
  • Familiarity with IT-based publishing systems and databases and ability to work with content from online, manuscript or paper sources
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to liaise with clients by phone and email and coordinate with editors, designers and other stakeholders

Requirements:

  • Correct spelling and grammar, perform sub-editing to ensure a consistent style, and reword content for clarity
  • Liaise with clients by phone and email to confirm requirements and obtain all necessary materials and paperwork
  • Create artwork briefs and ensure illustrations are correctly captioned and referred to in the text
  • Oversee the work of indexers, typesetters and designers and manage layout and typesetting

Job description

As a copy-editor or proofreader you'll ensure that material is clear, consistent, complete and credible, and that text is well written, grammatically correct and accessible.

You'll be required to correct spelling, grammar and layout (proofreading), check content, use consistent styles and reword or rewrite (copy-editing). 

Responsibilities

  • correcting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors
  • sub-editing text written by a number of executive to ensure consistent style
  • working with IT-based publishing systems and databases, as well as via the internet or from paper manuscripts
  • liaising regularly with clients by phone and email
  • checking that clients have provided all the required materials and paperwork
  • creating artwork briefs to detail the content of illustrations
  • ensuring that illustrations are correctly captioned and referred to in the text
  • producing or working to a style checklist to ensure consistency in hyphenation, capitalisation, formatting of references, etc
  • maintaining awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage with a view to ensuring they're appropriate for the readership
  • discussing and resolving any potentially libelous sections 
  • retrieving articles from archives and rearranging within publications
  • overseeing the work of indexers, typesetters and designers
  • typesetting and designing layout.

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