Copyediting of graduate school application materials
Bailey Harrington
Copy Editor
Proofreader
Google Docs
Microsoft Word
Ensured the students' ideas and accomplishments were clearly communicated both in prose form (in their personal statements) and more succinctly (in their CVs).
Goals/Requirements:
Edited document must have native fluency, be well-formatted
Edited personal statement must be under a specified word (or character) count
Information in personal statement and CV should align
Tasks involved:
Initial (global) formatting
Copyediting read-through (where most mark-up and any rewriting happens)
Proofreading read-through (catching anything that was missed before)