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What We Do Best

If you need help to make your writing flow, let’s talk. If your content is filled with specialized jargon, let us translate it to plain language that makes sense to the rest of the world. If you are gathering content from many expert sources and are spending your time trying to tie it all together, let us know.

We can take care of that while you get back to your REAL work.

Specialties

Here’s Where We Shine!

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Editing

Whatever your topic, if you already have the initial draft content, we can give it a professional polish. Depending on your needs, we can take care of:

Proofreading
A careful proofread is vital to ensuring the quality and integrity of any written communication. If high-precision proofreading is carried out at various drafting stages, then the final checks tend to yield minimal changes.

Copy editing
A copy edit might just involve applying the corrections indicated in the proofread, or it might call for a slightly deeper look to fine-tune such things as word order, sentence structure, paragraph structure, and consistency (voice, tense, etc.).

Substantive (structural) editing
The substantive (or “structural”) edit considers the concept and intention of the document, as well as content, organization, design, and style. Applied early, this kind of edit helps ensure that quality is built in rather than retrofitted after the fact. With this approach, any major problems are discovered early and can be corrected quickly and easily, often eliminating the need for lengthy rewrites later.
The substantive edit can also include checking consistency within and across document suites, which can be helpful when creating a framework of standard corporate content that can be applied to future writing projects.

Stylistic editing
The stylistic edit confirms that the content is clear and meaningful, and that consistent voice, tone, and tense are used. It also goes a bit further to check consistency between the various sections of the document and convert “jargon” to plain language. The stylistic edit can be particularly important when the draft content includes contributions from multiple authors, or authors whose first language isn’t English. Ultimately, the stylistic edit gives your content a single voice in expert-level English without compromising the intended message. Where possible, we work directly with the original contributor(s) to ensure that nothing is “lost in translation.”

Rewriting
A rewrite essentially results in changes to all or most of the document.

Comprehensive editing
The comprehensive edit combines some or all the editing services discussed above.

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Writing

We offer writing services for:

Corporate literature
Consistency and continuity across all corporate messaging—policies and processes, procedures, bid responses, content for online publication, or anything else—is essential to conveying quality. It also saves time and money when established and approved content can be brought into new publications.

Training material
Whether planning a training program from scratch or working with a team to pull everything together, we can help you ensure that your learners have what they need to learn effectively.

Regulatory documents
Our experience in writing regulatory documents has been focused on nuclear regulation, and has included participating in regulation development.

Ghost writing
If you have a story to tell but you don’t know where to start, we can guide the pen for you. Through comprehensive discussion, effective listening, probing questions, and cross-checking, we can help you find the salient points to highlight and identify any gaps. Then we put it all together in a way that flows, delivering a finished product that reflects your voice in a polished, professional way.

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Document Design and Production

In addition to writing and editing, Clear Expressions can also take care of designing, formatting, and producing your documents or document suites.

Three Steps to Clarity

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Step 1. Assess

We talk about your needs, and then we provide a sample edit and proposal.

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Step 2. Develop

We get to work, checking in with you along the way to make sure we’re (literally!) on the same page.

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Step 3. Deliver

We deliver the final quality product(s) on time and within budget.

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