Copy editing

• Correcting errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, and word use.

• Ensuring consistency in style, formatting, language, punctuation, and referencing.

Proofreading

• Giving edited documents a final pass to ensure they are free of errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Stylistic editing

• Clarifying meaning, eliminating jargon, polishing language, and other non-mechanical line-by-line editing.

Structural editing

• Clarifying or reorganizing a manuscript for content and structure.

Graduate Students

• As the recipient of a range of prestigious academic scholarships and grants (SSHRC PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships, Ontario Graduate Scholarship), Spot-on editors have shared their skills as grant writers and assisted many graduate students in the preparation of successful research grant and scholarship proposals.

Faculty

• As a managing grant editor for a $2.5M SSHRC Partnership Grant proposal, Scott understands how taxing and complex this grant writing process can be. He has experience managing and editing each aspect of stage one of the PG process.