Editing

The writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads.

—Dr. Seuss

Get our help to transform key documents

Our clients are experts in their business. We are experts in helping them communicate that knowledge clearly and concisely. We can consult on or revise documents that:

  • are important to your organization

  • pose complex problems

  • set a new standard or model for your team

Take a workshop to level up your editing

We support your editors to update documents and build editing skills throughout the workshop. We analyze the document ahead of time and prepare material to:

  • assess the document, define the types of changes, and create a plan

  • create before-and-after examples from the document as models

  • edit with your team live in the workshop

  • give the team tools to edit faster and more effectively

  • leave them with checklists to complete and perfect the document

Case study: training combined with editing

The Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program under the Government of Northwest Territories took a writing workshop from us. Their goal was to rewrite their Traditional Indigenous Knowledge proposal guide in plain language.

We edited excerpts from the guide beforehand, so they could get a head start. They applied what they learned in the workshop and cut the length of the original document by 50% themselves. We then helped them do a final edit.

Besides being shorter and clearer, the revised Proposal Guide was runner-up for an international plain language award.

Hands down, you have truly helped my writing and editing abilities. Thanks! (Where have you been all my life?!

—A writer/editor on the Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program team

This was the most immediately applicable training I have ever taken. Our whole team got excited. We applied what we learned to our Proposal Guide and cut the page count by 50%.

—Manager of the Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program team

Some of the documents we’ve edited

Business and education

  • Board reporting

  • Compliance and governance documents

  • Credit card and account agreements

  • Environmental reporting

  • Financial disclosure agreements (MD&A)

  • Grant applications

  • Health content for the public

  • Research and technical documents

  • Policies and procedures

  • Websites

Government and regulatory

  • Administrative and tribunal decisions

  • Briefing notes

  • Brochures for the public

  • Consumer complaint letters

  • Environmental assessments

  • Investigations and decisions

  • Letters and responses

  • Policy documents

  • Reports

  • Style guides

  • Templates

Legal

  • Briefs

  • Bylaws

  • Contracts

  • Decisions

  • Expert witness reports

  • Factums

  • Memorandums of agreement

  • Rules

  • Standards