Before you read a newspaper or magazine (or any of the advertising copy in those publications), before you read any book from a small or large press, an editor vets the material, reading, reviewing and revising it. Editing and proofreading makes texts--even those by authors who already have good writing skills--better. Editors correct grammatical errors as well as spelling mistakes (including contextual ones that spellcheck can't) and revise awkward or unnecessary phrases. Editors don't just cut and correct: they also point out places in the paper or essay the writer can expand with more detail.

Students and others often rely on friends and family to give constructive criticism of a business plan, a draft of a research paper or a college admissions essay, but relatives who haven't written a research paper in twenty years or peers who have never before edited another person's college essay don't always have the skills to do an effective job. They might hurt more than help. Hiring someone who has professional editing experience can mean the difference between success and failure or a good grade and a mediocre one. Ferpect Edit was formed to provide business professionals, students and writers an editing and proofreading service that is easy and convenient to use, at a reasonable cost. You can submit your paper and receive via email the neatly edited copy back in as little as twenty-four hours.

If you haven't used Ferpect Edit before you can try our free proofreading and editing service with no obligation. Just go to the above link and send us the first page of your paper which a Ferpect Editor will revise and send back to you in one business day.

If you would like to take a look at the résumé of a Ferpect Editor, go here. You can follow the links there to read samples of that editor's writing. Ferpect Edit also has a blog full of free editing tips where Ferpect editors post annotated revisions of writing taken from the web (not writing of clients). The blog may eventually include the editors' own essays and stories.

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