Document Comparison Proofreading

 

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Document comparison is the process of carefully comparing two or more documents to ensure their consistency and to identify discrepancies. If you have ever been involved in maintaining or converting documents, you understand the difficulties associated with guaranteeing the accuracy of multiple versions—the line-by-line reviews, the formatting issues, and the inevitable missed errors that result when one person reads a document too many times.

Document comparison is:

  • Tedious,
  • Time-consuming, and
  • Costly.

But it doesn’t need to be! We at WordsRU are here to help! Our document comparison proofreading services are accurate, timely and cost effective. Our professional editors have compared countless documents and are exceptionally skilled in identifying the smallest discrepancies. We review all elements of your document, including formatting, fonts, figures and tables.

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“A good style should show no signs of effort.  What is written should seem a happy accident.”
—W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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WordsRU understands that your documents and manuscripts must present a positive, cogent and cohesive image of you, your company or organization.  This can be difficult to achieve when colleagues within professions, industry groups and organizations need to collaborate with each other as well as with in-house personnel and other resources. In many of these situations the happy accident” that Maugham spoke of above is not necessarily the outcome of such a confluence of document input.

Complex documents and files that are subject to modification and adaptation by original authors and subsequent reviewers can have crucial significance within large complex organizations where the original input or context is to be retained. Despite various software purporting to perform accurate document comparisons (see also our resource notes on comparative proofreading), it is our experience, and that of our corporate clients in particular, that none match the accuracy achieved from a committed, personal review by an experienced, qualified and professional proofreader and editor.

Document Comparison with WordsRU

Whether your need document comparison proofreading arises from academic, business, publishing, electronic books,Web sites , newspaper articles, templates and document design requirements, our online editing offers you experienced professional assistance with a service that ensures your documents are not only compared, but proofread and formatted to your exact requirements. In addition to checking grammar, spelling, punctuation and typographical errors, our proofreaders and editors will review your documentation for consistency and compliance with existing conventions and other specific protocols.

Some Document Comparison Applications

  • Academic
  • Adaptative
  • Commercial documentation comparison and/or conversion
  • Conference proceedings
  • Cross-language comparative proofreading and editing
  • Fact/reference checking
  • Grant proposal comparison, editing and writing
  • Indexing comparison and pagination
  • PDF File conversion to an MS Word document
  • Project management covering all aspects of document management
  • Removal of racial, gender or other bias
  • Templates and document design

Simple Sample Table Comparison

Version 1

Code
Item
Age Range
AA
A
1 – 5
BB
B
5 – 7
CC
C
7 – 9

Version 2

Code Item Age
range
AA A 1 - 5
BB B 5 - 7
CC C 7 - 9

Discrepancies in Version 2:

  1. All column widths must be corrected.
  2. The paragraph break after “Age” in the third column must be removed to allow the entire title to appear on one line.
  3. The “r” in “range” must be capitalized.
  4. All data items and headers must be properly aligned.
  5. The hyphens in the third column must be changed to en dashes.

WordsRU Proofreading and Editing Services:

WordsRU offer a document comparison proofreading service for comparing two different versions of the same document.

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