business & government editing services

Business and government document editing

Sarah Endacott specialises in technical, scientific, community, medical and government documents, and has expertise that covers all aspects of structural and organisational editing, copy-editing, technical writing, rewriting, proofreading, design, indexing, project management and team liaison.

Projects include editing, design and print management of reports, newsletters, training manuals, advertisements, multimedia presentations, magazines and brochures, promotional material, indexes and other copy, tenders, proposals and grant submissions.

Sarah Endacott also offers guidance in producing attractive, effective documents in small and large print runs, across the budget spectrum.

Sarah Endacott can help you with project management, from guiding researchers, writers, photographers and designers, to editing, design and print consultation.

examples of work

Government: 15 years as preferred supplier for the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. Manuals, reports, discussion papers, information brochures, guidelines, specifications and tenders. Areas include information management, justice, practice guides for laws and regulations, primary and acute health care, human resources, inter-country adoption, fostering, disabilities and aged care, food safety, nurse retention.

Education: Principal for the editing service at the Faculty of Business and Commerce at the University of Wollongong since 2006. Editing service for translated academic papers for Eurac Research (Italy, Germany and Switzerland). Editing of numerous PhDs, theses into books, academic textbooks and training materials.

how much does it cost?

The cost of editing is based on:

number of words in the document
level of intervention required
difficulty of the subject matter
technical or specialised language
number of tables, graphs and other non-text material
turnaround time.

In order to get a firm quote, you should prepare a sample of the work (or preferably, submit the entire thing), along with an accurate word count that includes text boxes, tables, footnotes and references. Please email edit or die for a quote for editing your document.