EDITING, WRITING, TRAINING AND CONSULTING

WriteArt provides high-quality copy-editing, proofreading, rewriting, copywriting, ghostwriting, and associated training and consulting in a one-stop facility. 

The above services are grouped into three divisions that function as separate specialist entities, yet where required, the relevant divisions interact to produce texts that communicate in the most effective way possible. The services offered by each division are listed below.

Copy-editing and proofreading division
WriteArt's copy-editing and proofreading division copy-edits and proofreads the following types of documents: academic theses, articles, reports, presentations, proposals, user manuals, books, magazines, newsletters, as well as e-books, e-zines, e-newsletters, blogs, and marketing materials. Click this copy-editing and proofreading link for more information on these services. 

Rewriting, copywriting and ghostwriting division
This division offers rewriting, copywriting and ghostwriting services for industry specialists, non-fiction freelance authors, and fiction freelance authors, including those who are not first-language speakers of English.  

Text types include blogs, proposals, reports, presentations, user manuals, software help manuals, web sites, newsletters, articles, books, short stories, novelettes, novellas, novels and plays. Click this rewriting, copywriting and ghostwriting link for more information on these services.

Consulting and training division
WriteArt offers consulting and training in the areas aligned to its core services, namely, plain language legal compliance, copy-editing, proofreading, writing, style guide usage, document styling and word processing software. Click this consulting and training link for more information on these services. Also, click on WriteArt's courses page for more information on the courses currently on offer.  

COPY-EDITING AND PROOFREADING SERVICES
Well-written texts promote respect for the perceived author's ideas, products and services. Unfortunately, the opposite also applies.  

Our task as editors is to ensure that your documents are free of errors and that the appropriate words and structures are combined to promote easy reading.

Text Types
We edit all types of texts including the following:

- academic theses, papers and articles
- magazines and trade publications
- advertising and marketing communications
- educational materials
- fiction and nonfiction works
- websites, blogs and e-newsletters
- proposals, presentations and other business communications

Editing for speakers of English as a foreign language
Our years of experience in teaching English as a foreign language have provided us with an understanding of the errors that speakers of a particular language are most likely to make. This reduces time spent on queries to authors and allows us to express our clients' intended meanings accurately.

Procedure
We edit hard copy and electronic documents using the 'Track Changes' function in Microsoft Word^®.

Deadlines
WriteArt undertakes to comply with the deadline set by you, as endorsed by the quote that will be sent to you after assessing your document.

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REWRITING, COPYWRITING AND GHOSTWRITING SERVICES
WriteArt's writing division offers rewriting, copywriting and ghostwriting services for industry specialists (who may have had the time or desire only to assemble points, facts, figures and diagrams, perhaps with a text outline or angle), non-fiction freelance authors and fiction authors, including those who are not first-language speakers of English. The full contact details of the text originator must be supplied so that matters pertaining to the text can be discussed if required.

Fiction authors supply the story outline or synopsis, plot, character profiles and themes, together with research undertaken.

Benefits
There are many authors whose strengths lie in coming up with ideas, researching, and conceptualising texts and publications. Often these authors prefer to appoint a copywriter or ghostwriter to write or rewrite their texts. Appointing a copywriter or ghostwriter allows this type of author the opportunity to focus on core strengths. In the process, these authors produce more and earn more.

Text types
We rewrite, copywrite or ghostwrite all types of texts, including covering letters, press releases, proposals, reports, presentations, user manuals, software help manuals, web sites, blogs, newsletters, articles, books, short stories, novelettes, novellas, novels and plays.

Procedure
For rewriting, texts are in prose form, and for ghostwriting and copywriting, texts are in sequenced point form, together with the contact details for those who need to be contacted for additional information or for interviews.

Deadlines
WriteArt undertakes to comply with the deadlines set by you, as endorsed by the quote that will be sent to you after assessing your writing project.

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CONSULTING AND TRAINING SERVICES
WriteArt offers telephonic and on-site consulting and training in the following areas.

Plain language legal compliance
The Consumer Protection Act, the National Credit Act, and the new Companies Act all require that written communications be in plain language. In terms of these requirements, all companies are liable for ensuring that the documents specified comply with plain English provisions. Some of the legislative requirements are already in force, while the Consumer Protection Act is anticipated to require compliance from 1 April 2011. 

Examples of the written communications requiring compliance are terms and conditions, lease and sale agreements, appraisals and evaluations, service contracts, policy documents, financial reports and corporate documents.

WriteArt has an admitted attorney and qualified copy-editors and writers who will ensure that your documentation fulfills all plain language legal requirements.

Email info@writeart.co.za for more information.

Style guide setup and implementation
Using a style guide as a tool for writers, copy-editors and proofreaders has been standard practice for most publishers and universities. Nowadays all types of organisations, big and small, are using style guides and experiencing the benefits that these bring.

A style guide is a standard document that specifies how your company's documents and publications should look. This includes, among other factors, the font type and size that your company uses for a specific type of document or publication. A style guide results in documents and publications that are stylistically uniform, visually appealing, and user-friendly. This strengthens the company's identity and brand, and results in a professional image. Providing employees and consultants with a style guide streamlines communication and reduces time spent on documents and publications, resulting in savings.

Let WriteArt develop a style guide for your organisation. This will be followed up with training for selected staff members on how to use and implement the style guide. When alterations or additions are required, WriteArt will assist with updating the style guide.

Document styling
Developing document templates and preset styles that comply with the organisation's style guide saves time and money. It results in visually appealing, user-friendly and professional documents and publications. Let WriteArt set up your document templates and styles, as well as train selected staff members to implement them. 

Word-processing software usage 
At WriteArt we use word processing software all the time, so we have become experts. Let us pass our knowledge on to you. 

Copy-editing and proofreading 
We are expert copy-editors and proofreaders. If you are just starting out as a copy-editor or proofreader, or if you work with copy-editors and you need training or support, we will be glad to assist. 

Writing 
If you need writing training or guidance and support on one or more writing projects, call us, and we will gladly assist. Also, click on WriteArt's courses page for more information on the courses currently on offer.

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