Trevor Birch

Author, Editor and Proofreader

Hi! My name is Trevor Birch, and I am a professional proofreader with extensive experience in the UK book publishing industry. I am now, through this website, offering my experience to webmasters, internet marketers, and anyone else who wants help with their writing projects, either checking the text for correctness and consistency, preparing it for publication, or generating it in the first place.

Note: I am currently moving house, and as a result will not be able to respond to enquiries for my services until the move is completed. The contact and payment functions of this site are therefore temporarily suspended for the duration of my house move. This message will be removed when normal operation has resumed, which I hope to be around the middle of September.

You are welcome to explore my site to see what I normally have to offer, but please do not try to request a quotation. A brief guide to this site and my services is given below, to help you find information relevant to your interests.

My Services

I am offering a range of services centred on the production of textual documents, including e-books, reports, webpages and pretty much any other type of document, in either electronic form or on paper. The core services that I offer are:

• Proofreading: This is the process of checking and correcting a document that is about to be published for spelling/typing, punctuation and grammatical errors.
• Editing: This is the process of preparing an already written document for publication. It includes proofreading the text for basic errors, together with minor rewriting to improve phrasing, and application of consistent formatting.
• Rewriting: This is the process of major or extensive rewording of an already written document, either to improve the quality of the original writing, generate a new version that says the same thing in different words, or convert the document to a different type or size.
• Writing: This is the fundamental process of creating a new textual document from basic information. Depending on the subject for a writing project, this may well include doing research (i.e. searching the internet) for that basic information.

In addition to these core services I also offer a number of supporting services, such as converting and formatting a document into an e-book or webpage, extending the proofreading or editing of the text of a website to testing other aspects of that website's operation, and doing keyword research to find appropriate phrases to be targeted by a series of articles.

Language

My native language is UK English so this will be the language I will use by default for editorial or writing projects. On request I can also work in other forms of English, such as US or other international varieties. However, while I can easily use a spellchecker with an appropriate dictionary to catch the variations in spelling, when it comes to writing in non-UK English, my choice of phrasing may not be the same as a native speaker of that form of English.