~ Freelance Editor available for ~
• Editing • Rewriting • Proofreading • Indexing •
• Aviation Specialist Document Technical Editing •
• Basic proof-checking (spelling & grammar) •
• Conventional Indexing (front- or back-of-the-book) •
• Web development / refreshing / checking / updating / maintenance •
• Rush-jobs available •
* See Agreement (available upon request) for specifics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia...           "A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed           and is not committed to a particular employer long term."

- Experienced in aviation writing and terminology -
     Former Air Traffic Controller (2 years), and...
Retired Airline Pilot (39 years, ATPL, 13,000+ flying hours)
James C. "Jim" Lynch
128 Snowshoe Crescent, Thornhill, Ontario CANADA
905-881-5197

• Technical editing •
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing#Technical_editing
"Technical editing involves reviewing text written on a technical topic, and identifying errors (grammar, punctuation and use of words) related to the use of language in general or adherence to a specific style guide.

Technical editing may include any of the following: correction of grammatical mistakes, misspellings, mistyping, incorrect punctuation, inconsistencies in usages, poorly structured sentences, wrong scientific terms, wrong units and dimensions, inconsistency in significant figures, technical ambivalence, technical disambiguation, correction of statements conflicting with general scientific knowledge, correction of synopsis, content, index, headings and subheadings, correcting data and chart presentation in a research paper or report, correcting errors in citations.

This activity ensures that documentation is of good quality."
  
• Basic proof-checking •
Close reading and correction of a manuscript's typographical errors, correcting spelling (both of the right words and of the "wrong" words) and how the sentences "read" to make sense. In short, spelling and grammar only.

Yes, you can do this yourself - to a point - with any good word processor, but software will not correct words used in an inapproriate context or words which are spelled correctly but mean something completely different than intended (eg: "polling there sucks up" used for "pulling their socks up").

The word processor software can only take you so far - it does not understand meaning, only sentence formation and spelling.
  
• Conventional indexing •
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_%28publishing%29#Conventional_indexing
"The indexer reads through the text, identifying indexable concepts (those for which the text provides useful information and which will be of relevance for the text's readership). The indexer creates index headings, to represent those concepts, which are phrased such that they can be found when in alphabetical order (so 'indexing process' rather than 'how to create an index'). These headings and their associated locators (indicators to position in the text) are entered into specialist indexing software which handles the formatting of the index and facilitates the editing phase. The index is then edited to impose consistency throughout the index.

Indexers must analyze the text to enable presentation of concepts and ideas in the index that may not be named within the text. The index is intended to help the reader, researcher, or information professional, rather than the author, find information, so the professional indexer must act as a liaison between the text and the its ultimate user."
  

• Industry-standard functions performed by this Editor •
  
WEB DESIGN / CHECKING / MAINTENANCE / UPDATING
DEVELOPMENTAL / PROJECT EDITING
SUBSTANTIVE / STRUCTURAL EDITING
PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATION
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
PICTURE RESEARCH
STYLISTIC EDITING
PROOFREADING
COPY EDITING
PERMISSIONS
REWRITING
INDEXING