{"id":2317,"date":"2024-09-25T02:48:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T07:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:58:58","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Elevating Your Writing Through Editing<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Hi, I’m LeeAnn.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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I\u2019m a Chicagoland-based copyeditor who is passionate about helping writers communicate effectively and meaningfully with their audience. Whether you\u2019re looking to improve reader engagement with marketing materials or elevate the quality of your manuscript, I have the experience and knowledge needed to help you achieve your desired results.<\/p>

I earned my specialized copyediting certificate from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Extended Studies in March 2022.\u00a0I had worked at the corporate headquarters of a financial services company\u2014primarily in marketing\u2014for over 20 years, starting as an administrative assistant and departing as a project manager. The pandemic and my approaching milestone birthday prompted me to assess my situation, and I decided to follow a different path.<\/p>

I approach each project with collaboration in mind. This is\u00a0your<\/em>\u00a0manuscript, and I will make recommendations using my skills and knowledge to help you produce the best version of your document to share with your audience. As the author, however, you decide which suggestions you want to incorporate. My strategy is to partner with my clients, learning their writing style (voice) while earning their trust with strong, impactful, and knowledgeable copyediting that elevates their work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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Copyediting, or copy editing (depending on whether your style manual is The Chicago Manual of Style<\/em>, 18th Edition, or The Associated Press Stylebook<\/em>, 57th Edition), is about fixing sentence structure and changing words with a focus on grammar. Occurring after big picture developmental editing, copyediting focuses on mechanical style, such as identifying and correcting or questioning (called querying) issues of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, punctuation, treatment of numbers and numerals, abbreviations and acronyms, use of italics and bold type, and treatment of special elements such as tables, charts, and lists.<\/p>

My copyediting approach* generally involves a first pass reading<\/b> to gain a sense of the overall work\u2014whether a novel, short story, or marketing materials\u2014to support both the author and the reader. Understanding the path from beginning to end helps inform the next pass<\/b>, where I turn on Track Changes within a copy of your document and make recommendations or changes accompanied by Comments to advise based on knowledge, experience, and style guide rules (decisions documented in a style sheet);\u00a0 e.g., when do you use words vs. numberals in text? Should an Oxford\/series comma be used; if so, when? Should punctuation go inside or outside quotation marks? [Hint: it depends on the punctuation and quotation marks being used (and whether using UK or US English)!] The final pass<\/b> provides one last check to ensure no errors were accidentally introduced and that any outstanding queries have been addressed. Along with the final pass and style sheet, I’ll have created an executive summary with notes on what works well and what major changes are incorporated, which we’ll review together during a scheduled call.\u00a0<\/p>

My goal is to improve the flow and readability for your audience while maintaining your style, your voice. Recognizing that the manuscript\/document is not mine, my role is to support and elevate your work to the best of our combined ability. We’ll determine the best way to communicate and provide changes within the contract. Contact me<\/b><\/a> to learn more.<\/p>

* Contract detailing project between Client and Ready Edits LLC supersedes example(s).\u00a0<\/p>

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Proofreading is the final step before sharing your work with your audience. This comes after copyediting, providing the opportunity to polish and refine your prose by correcting any remaining typos, double words (e.g.,\u00a0“the the”<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0“and and”<\/em>), grammatical errors<\/span>, punctuation, spelling, and formatting issues. While proofreading doesn’t replace copyediting, this critical function will often use the style sheet compiled by the copyeditor to ensure consistency in usage throughout the document. You can expect me to correct errors introduced during file conversion, formatting, or typesetting, or missed by another copyeditor, when proofreading your work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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I have always loved words and reading. As a project manager at a financial services company, it was my responsibility to ensure corporate documents were clear, coherent, consistent, correct, and approved by the Law department before sharing with the public. I created and edited presentations for internal and external audiences and service communications to cardmembers. I helped identify risks and their mitigations for products and services that the company took to market. In 2021, I decided to leave corporate life and follow my desire to help others create the best version of their passion projects by enrolling in the copyediting certificate program through UC San Diego, Extended Studies. I would love to help elevate your manuscript into the best version possible.<\/p>

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I have had the distinct pleasure of knowing LeeAnn for well over 20 years. I can truly say she is a genuine, trustworthy person, and a devoted professional. LeeAnn has proofread countless writing projects of mine, and has always done so in a very timely manner. Her abilities in marketing and finance are exceeded only by her ability to work very well as part of a cohesive team, and I am honored to recommend her to anyone considering working with her.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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LeeAnn Mohedano provided excellent copyediting services for my website. In my previous career prior to starting my own business, I worked as a professional business writer and did not expect LeeAnn to catch much. However, not only did she notice typos that I had missed, she shared a number of ideas for word and phrase changes to improve the overall quality and consistency of my content. As a result of her thoughtful suggestions, my website content has a polished feel to it that is helping me to communicate a professional and trustworthy online presence. I would recommend her services to anyone looking to take their written content to the next level.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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[LeeAnn is] a thoughtful and caring copy editor who helps me get my message across through my writing by eliminating the distractions and confusing prose. You help me focus on the core message and normalize pieces that are clear to me, but might be confusing to my audience. You partner with me on this, letting voice come through, while keeping my own style where I think I need it. You don't force edits upon me, but you do make it clear which things are table stakes editing versus opportunities to improve or clarify the message. Thank you for all of your contributions!<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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LeeAnn Mohedano Copyeditor & Proofreader Elevating Your Writing Through Editing let\u2019s talk Hi, I’m LeeAnn. I\u2019m a Chicagoland-based copyeditor who is passionate about helping writers communicate effectively and meaningfully with their audience. Whether you\u2019re looking to improve reader engagement with marketing materials or elevate the quality of your manuscript, I have the experience and knowledge… Read More »Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PfHizQ-Bn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2317\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readyedits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}