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Writing Good English
Our services are many and varied: some we charge for, others we give you free – with our compliments. Our main purpose is not to make a lot of money (though some would be nice) but rather to promote the cause of good written English.
Over time, this website will develop into an authoritative resource of articles and tips, where people at all levels of learning can improve their written English skills. As with most skills, there can be no substitute for practice. The more you write, the better you will become – I guarantee it.
Our chargeable services include the following:
- Proof-reading
- Editing (minor amendments)
- Re-writing
- Article writing
- Factual copywriting
- Sales copywriting
All are available as single services or in combination, and prices vary.
With modern spell-checkers, the work of the proof-reader is much reduced, though not eliminated.
Take the words ‘their’, ‘there’ and ‘they’re’. No spell-checker will highlight them – they are all correctly spelled – but in every instance two of them are incorrect. Then there are the pretentious words that go wrong. I once edited a letter where the writer described a method of remembering as ‘pneumonic’. It’s a correctly spelled word, but has nothing at all to do with remembering. The word he intended was ‘mnemonic’ – which most people would not have understood anyway.
If you have a letter, an essay, a sales email, a website page or any other piece of written English you want to create, the cheapest and most effective way is to write it out as well as you can, send it to us, and we will either proof-read it, edit it, or re-write it as necessary.
We will always agree a price in advance, and stick to it.
Our past work has included all of the following:
Websites
We do not claim to specialise in search engine optimisation: we leave that to the experts. But well-written, grammatically correct, interesting pages of text are our speciality.
Magazine articles
We often “ghost-write” magazine articles for people who are experts in their field but whose written English is less than perfect. We have the satisfaction of seeing an informative article transformed into a well written piece of prose (and our bank balance improves a little), while the client has the satisfaction of seeing their expert ideas expressed clearly and unambiguously. All their readers can then appreciate the value of the content without being distracted by unnecessary mistakes.
Press releases
Although the style of a press release is often different from other forms of writing, it is important that the content is expressed in words that a news editor can copy and paste, without the need for endless re-writing. They are busy people: they aren’t searching for unnecessary work.
Sales letters
Whether paper copy or email, a sales letter has to grab the reader’s attention, hold it with interesting copy while they read your message, then persuade them to buy your product or service.
Brochures
If you’re spending hundreds (maybe even thousands) producing a glossy brochure for your holiday home investments, you certainly don’t want it riddled with spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, or clumsy prose.
Software User Manuals
I must admit these are not our favourite projects! But someone has to do them and, for an appropriate fee, we can always be persuaded.
