Basic Proofreading Services
For well-written text that is already fairly polished and/or well edited and only requires a final proofread for punctuation, grammar, spacing issues, typos or inconsistencies.
- from R180 / 1000 words (18c / word)
Light Editing Services
For material that requires relatively little editing, but could nevertheless do with a fair amount of improvement in terms of grammar, syntax, spelling, punctuation, consistency, flow, spacing, and so forth.
- from R240 / 1000 words (24c / word)
Substantial / Full Editing Services
This entails a thorough edit of the entire document or manuscript, including minor rewriting where necessary, filling in any gaps and making suggestions in this regard, especially when it comes to book and academic editing, fact-checking if necessary, checking and correcting references (e.g., academic papers), and basically ensuring that the text is perfect and error-free.
- from R30 / 1000 words (30c / word)
Important: These editing and proofreading rates are a general guideline only, and do NOT include formatting, which incurs an additional cost per page. For an accurate quote, please email us a sample of at least a few pages of the text to be edited in Word format and the total word count of the document in question (or better yet, email us the entire paper), along with your deadline, and we will work out a quote for you accordingly.