Plain language editing service

Tender description

We require an experienced English-medium editing service that specialises in plain language techniques. The service will deliver editing suggestions that help ensure our audit products are well written in clear language that is easy to understand. We need a confidential, reliable, flexible and resilient editing service. The supplier will provide one or more editors who will personally review our confidential draft reports and: - suggest plain language edits to improve readability and structure. For example: minimising jargon and passive language, supporting simple and direct sentences. - make suggestions for tightening our report writing by shrinking the word count, ensuring this does not change the key messages and meaning of the report. - advise on compliance with Audit Scotland’s house style guide, including our report-writing style guide, to support high standards of syntax, grammar and punctuation. However, the overall focus of the editing service should be more on plain language advice than general proofreading.