Text types: every kind of text we proofread and edit

From the final thesis to the book manuscript to print advertising

Every type of text has its own traps. A bachelor thesis fails on its citation style, a novel on its narrative perspective, a flyer on a wrong price that was printed in 5,000 copies. This overview brings together the text types we handle, each checked against its own set of criteria. Pages with a link have their own page on this site.

Study and academic work

Academic work is our most common case. It follows fixed conventions, and most texts fail not on content but on form: inconsistent citation style, changing tenses, misplaced lists of contents and figures. Each page explains what we look out for in that kind of work. See also the overview of academic text types.

Books, novels and manuscripts

A book project needs something different from a thesis. It is about narrative voice, characters and reading flow over hundreds of pages. We therefore distinguish clearly between proofreading, which removes errors, and editing, which works on the text itself.

Applications and work

Application documents are short, yet they are read most closely. A mistake in a cover letter stands out at once, because the page is small and every line gets attention.

Business, marketing and print

Company texts are produced by several people: copy from marketing, figures from sales, sign-off from management. Details drift in the process, and once something is printed or live, it can no longer be corrected quietly.

Organisations, administration and sectors

Some text types have rules of their own that language alone cannot capture: cross-references in a set of statutes, deadlines in a tender, readability in plain language. For these cases there are dedicated pages with a suitable set of criteria.

Proofreading or editing: what your text type needs

The choice depends less on the topic than on the state of the text. Proofreading removes errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation and leaves wording untouched. It suits a text whose content is settled and which only needs to be made clean, such as a finished thesis shortly before submission or a manuscript after several rounds of your own revision.

Editing also works on style, clarity and structure. It smooths out nested sentences, makes terms consistent across the whole document and marks places where the argument jumps. It pays off when a text was written under time pressure, when several people worked on it or when it is not written in your first language.

The same principle applies to every text type: we write nothing new in terms of content. We work on the text you give us and make every change visible in tracked changes, so you can accept or reject each one individually. Our guide to spelling, grammar and punctuation covers the rules behind many of these corrections.

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Frequently asked questions

My text type is not on the list. Is that a problem?

No. The list shows text types with a set of criteria of their own. Beyond that we edit practically any German or English text. Simply send it through the upload and you get a fixed price.

Does a flyer cost the same as a thesis?

We charge by standard page of 1,800 characters including spaces, not by text type. A two-page flyer therefore usually stays under one standard page, while a master thesis runs to 60 to 100.

Does the same person handle every text type?

No. We assign by subject area and text type. A novel goes to someone with a literary background, technical documentation to someone who knows such texts.

What is the difference between a text form and a text type?

In everyday use both mean the same. This page groups our services by the kind of text. If you are looking for academic text types with their structural rules, see the overview of academic text types.