Whether starting up a new Web site, writing your monthly e-zine, or editing your latest short story, your words convey who you are and what you are promoting. You want them polished; you want them clean.

This site is designed to help you catch
what spell-check and grammar-check miss.

I’ve worked in the writing, editing, and proofreading business for more than twenty years and know just how hard it is to catch every mistake, particularly if proofreader and writer are one and the same.

So, if you want to know the difference

• between affect and effect or it’s and its, and whether to ensure or to insure;

• between semicolons and commas, dashes and colons, and where each goes in quotations;

• between swam and swum or he and him, and why a plural noun needs a plural verb;

• between active voice and passive, parallel construction and unparallel, and why the guiding rule is show, don’t tell;

so you can present a professional final product.

If you’re not interested in self-editing or you don’t have a trusted second eye to help with proofreading, feel free to check out Eagle Editorial's copyediting services, or contact me with quick questions for quick and free replies.

Best of luck to you in whatever you’re doing, and I hope my tips will help.