James Baron – Editor

Over the past 30 years, I've worked in various public and private sector roles covering industries ranging from the environment and engineering, to IT and financial services. This has given me lots of experience handling all sorts of technical and business language, which I've been using as a freelance editor and proofreader since 2017.

I provide copyediting and proofreading support to authors, publishers, and businesses for manuscripts, academic papers, blogs, case studies, etc.

The service is tailored according to your requirements but it usually involves:

• identifying corrections to spelling, grammar, and punctuation

• ensuring consistency throughout (e.g., capitalization, hyphenation, terminology)

• correcting any formatting, spacing, or layout issues

• checking page numbers, captions, headings, references, etc

• rephrasing to improve the flow of a sentence, particularly if the author's first language isn't English.

Of course, I'm always happy to include any other specific requirements that you might have.

I offer a service for most subjects, ranging from philosophy and linguistics, to science and public health.

AI policy: I don't use AI while editing. I will not put a client's text into a large language model (LLM).

Sample testimonial:

“Calling James a proofreader does not do him full justice. To be sure, he attended to my highly specialized philosophy book with rare precision and sensitivity. Not only did he catch my errors, but he also made me sound better! I would prefer to call him a collaborator of unequalled expertise. Further, he completed his work ahead of schedule, and substantially lowered our agreed-upon fee as a result. I recommend him enthusiastically and unequivocally.”

— Dr. Bernard Freydberg, USA