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| Copyediting |
- At PPA, a thorough editorial review of written text includes making the structure conform to the editing standards requested by the client; verifying and correcting the grammar, spelling, punctuation, consistency, and cross-references; and preparing text and graphics for composition. When books are written by a team of contributing authors, PPA's editorial team maintains consistency and continuity throughout the manuscript.
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| Editorial Proofreading and Quality Control |
- Quality control at every step of the production process is critical. PPA's editorial proofreaders ensure that page proofs accurately reflect how the customer wants the final product to appear by checking the final product against the design specifications and author-approved manuscript. For authors who need assistance in marking their proofs, PPA provides a list of commonly used editing and proofreading marks with samples of their use. PPA also provides guidance for authors for electronic editing and proofing, and for uploading and downloading from ftp sites.
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| Editorial Services for Web Sites and Electronic Products |
- PPA edits and proofreads electronic projects, correcting grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Quality control steps include carefully checking and verifying links, multimedia clips, and navigation for CDs and Web sites to ensure each link is correctly programmed to launch the appropriate action.
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| Accuracy Checking |
- Scientific or technical content often needs to be checked for accuracy to ensure that facts, math, and scientific calculations are correct. PPA's professionals are experts in a variety of fields, and their knowledge and years of experience will ensure that a project's content receives a thorough and informed fact checking. Fields of fact checker expertise are mathematics (including algebra, discrete math, number theory, probability, and statistics), chemistry, biochemistry, physics, biology, business, medical, economics, accounting, law, engineering, history, and social sciences.
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| Problem Solving, Answer Verification, and Creating Solutions Manuals |
- PPA checks and verifies solutions to problems in a variety of fields including math, statistics, probability, and engineering. While solving these problems, the solutions contained in answer keys are verified. In addition, solutions manuals can be created showing the step-by-step work required to arrive at the correct answer for each problem.
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| Indexing |
- PPA provides complete, reliable indexes to the contents of published products. Depending on the subject matter and the client's requirements, indexes range from simple to very detailed, comprehensive directories of a product. Multiple indexes can also be prepared including but not limited to subject, author, and company indexes, creating roadmaps to the product's content.
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