Manuscript Evaluation

A Guide to Improving your Manuscript

When you have completed the major part of a manuscript and have garnered positive comments from friends whose opinions you respect, you’ll have a good idea of the substance of the work. Now is the time to make refinements, but you need an ordered list of issues that need attention. You’ve expended a lot of energy, and now is the time to work efficiently on improvements. You need focus.

This is the time to get a considered evaluation from a professional editor.

Allograph's Manuscript Evaluations include all the features of Reader’s Reports, but the advice is given in greater depth.

§ The most effective features and strengths of your work

§ What needs attention, and your choices on how to finish the book most efficiently

§ Identifying your broad structural strategy, and the deviations, missing sections, context and background.

§ Strategies for maintaining continuity: transitions between sections and chapters; cross references and time shifts

§ Style and style shifts: sentence and paragraph construction, tenses, point of view

Recommendations

In addition to written comments, I make penciled comments in the margins of the manuscript, locating the major structural changes suggested. I will identify generic examples that illustrate my comments on style and transitions.

You’ll gain a new perspective on the manuscript, and you’ll be able to make effective edits with minimal effort.

Is It Cost-effective?

The cost of my Manuscript Evaluation will be offset by the time you save in redrafting. See Rates and Payment.