Writing and editing

According to Wikipedia, “the copy editor's job is summarized in the Five Cs: to make the copy [text] clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent. Typically, copy editing involves correcting spelling, terminology, punctuation, grammatical, and semantic errors; ensuring that the typescript adheres to the publisher's house style; and adding standardized headers, footers, headlines, etc.”

At AA Nuncio, we subscribe to this philosophy as regards text, but we take it a step farther. We look at documents holistically. This means that we correct text like traditional editors (“correcting spelling, terminology, punctuation, grammatical, and semantic errors”), but we also correct metadata and markup.

We generate Editor's Notes in HTML format using proprietary software.

Citing Wikipedia again, “proofreading traditionally means reading a proof copy [i.e., a hard copy] of a text in order to detect and correct any errors.” Our proofreading markup is compliant with the ISO 5776 standard.

Most translation and writing projects require peer review.

For translations, this means that a second translator must review the translation.

For writing projects, another writer must act as copy editor.

As a rule, no text should be published unless it has gone through peer review. Even text written by a veteran writer can benefit from peer review.

Although we make every effort to ensure the quality of our texts, when our clients choose to omit peer review (typically, in order to reduce the project cost), they assume ultimate responsibility for the finished product.