{"id":532,"date":"2020-03-31T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sprakedit.com\/?page_id=532"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:05:36","slug":"sprakgranskning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/?page_id=532","title":{"rendered":"Substantive editing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong>I focus on getting the English right \u2014 spelling, punctuation, style, grammar, flow, and consistency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">I edit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Academic texts (with a special focus on education and social sciences) \u2014 essays, theses, dissertations, research &amp; journal articles, book chapters, presentations, case studies, reports, &amp; web pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">Turnaround times vary depending on the length and nature of the text. The typical turnaround time for a text of 5000 words is 2-3 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">I don\u2019t usually take on formatting or checking citations&nbsp;and references, but I will consider special requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copyediting, proofreading, &amp; substantive editing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not a professional copyeditor or proofreader, although I perform many of the functions of a copyeditor\/proofreader. <strong>I specialise in reviewing the texts of academic writers for whom English is a second language.<\/strong> I refer to my work as spr\u00e5kgranskning (language review) and not copyediting or proofreading because the work routinely involves at least some, and at times extensive rewriting or restructuring &#8211; what is known as developmental or substantive editing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"662\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/sprakedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Editing1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Editing1.jpg 662w, https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Editing1-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I focus on getting the English right \u2014 spelling, punctuation, style, grammar, flow, and consistency. I edit: Academic texts (with a special focus on education and social sciences) \u2014 essays, theses, dissertations, research &amp; journal articles, book chapters, presentations, case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-532","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprakedit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}