Welcome to Mark-My-Word Proofreading Services
Quality General Proofreading for Spelling, Punctuation, Formatting, and Accuracy
Professional General Proofreading Services
Mark-My-Word Proofreading Services
About
Hello! I am glad you have stopped by my page.
My name is Mark Hester, and I am a certified professional proofreader.
I graduated from the general proofreading course at Proofread Anywhere.
My background is eclectic, having degrees in accounting, radiologic technology, and health science. I was a bookkeeper for ten years and then a licensed radiologic technologist for twenty years. More recently, I worked two years as an Epic EHR analyst, and five years as an analyst in clinical informatics. In the past, I have also been an adjunct instructor for a local community college for medical terminology and introductory medical coding.
Language has always fascinated me, though. I enjoy puns, linguistics, words, and grammar structure. Over the past few years, as I anticipated retirement from the medical field, I began to research possibilities for work-from-home jobs and found Proofread Anywhere. I enjoyed the training and courses and look forward to this next chapter of my career.
I am a registered volunteer with Distributed Proofreaders. This organization scans public-domain documents, provides the scanned OCR documents to volunteer proofreaders for rigorous comparison to the original texts, and then submits the documents to the Project Gutenberg electronic archive. The archived texts are free to the public and invaluable in preserving the past.
As a professional proofreader, I feel my varied expertise, talents, and services help others improve themselves through their writing craftsmanship.
“Marking Your Work for Excellence” is my goal.
Mark-My-Word Proofreading Services
Services
What Proofreading Covers
Your document will be examined for
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Formatting
- Accuracy
- Grammar
- Logical sense and flow of the text
- Hyperlink functionality
Each error and instance of inconsistency will be marked along with relevant commentary.
Mark-My-Word Proofreading Services
Rates
Proofreading rates are dependent on the required turnaround time and the complexity of the document contents.
Complexity Factors include:
- Type of text (technical, academic, novel, etc.)
- Formatting of the text
- Additional aspects other than the general text which needs to be checked. (hyperlinks, quotations, source citations.)
| Proofreading Rates | |||
| # of Words | Simple Text | Standard Text | Complex Text |
| < 500 Words | $7.50 flat rate | $10.00 flat rate | $15.00 flat rate |
| > 500 Words | $0.012 per word | $0.015 per word | $0.02 per word |
A signed contract with a stated price will be agreed upon prior to work being done.
Mark-My-Word Proofreading Services
Turnaround Times
The following are standard Turnaround Times and apply after receipt of a
signed contractual agreement and 50% payment of the project fee.
Expedited Turnaround Times and Word Counts over 100,000 are determined on an individual basis.
Business days are Monday through Friday, excluding national holidays.
| Standard Turnaround Time | Word Count of Submitted Document |
| within 3 business days after document receipt | < 7,000 |
| within 4 business days after document receipt | 7,001 – 14,000 |
| within 5 business days after document receipt | 14,001 – 35,000 |
| within 10 business days (2 weeks) after document receipt | 35,001 – 70,000 |
| within 15 business days (3 weeks) after document receipt | 70,001 – 100,000 |
A signed contract with a stated price will be agreed upon prior to work being done.
Mark-My-Word Proofreading Services
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This website address is: https://mark-my-word.com.
Owner is: Mark A. Hester
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Mark-My-word Proofreading services
Job Procedure
Method of file submission and method of payment are contractually negotiable.
- Tell me your proofreading need. Ask me any questions you may have.
2. Your document that requires proofreading is sent to me.
3. I will send you a contract for my services to be signed and returned to me.
4. 25% of the contracted price is due from you prior to task beginning.
5. I will proofread your document as per our contract.
6. I will return the proofread document to you, which will show corrections and suggestions.
7. 75% of contracted price for services rendered is sent to me.