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<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" style="font-family: Arial" link="#CC3300" vlink="#CC3300" alink="#FF8A8A" background="chestnuts.jpg" bgproperties="fixed" bgcolor="#996633"> <p><a name="English Proofreading Services"></a></p> <table border="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#C0C0C0" width="100%" id="AutoNumber35" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="100%"><p align="center"><strong><a href="http://www.multilingual.ch" target="_top"><img src="multilingual_ch_1.gif" alt="www.multilingual.ch - English proofreading" align="middle" border="0" width="242" height="54"></a></strong></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center><table border="4" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#996633" width="85%" id="AutoNumber24" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="100%"><div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#996633" width="90%" id="AutoNumber3" height="80"> <tr> <td width="56" valign="bottom" height="110" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><img border="0" src="English_proofreading_services.jpg" width="55" height="110" alt="English proofreading"></td> <td valign="bottom" height="110" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><h1 align="center"><font size="5">English Proofreading Services</font></h1> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="4"><i>Tanya Harvey Ciampi<br>  </i></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56" valign="bottom" height="4"><img border="0" src="redbar.gif" width="56" height="4" alt="English correction"></td> <td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CC3300" height="4"><img border="0" src="rigarossa.gif" width="27" height="3" alt="English corrections"></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>Proofreading of English texts <font size="2"> <font size="2" face="Arial">Professional linguistic support you can trust</font></font></b></p> <font size="2"><p align="center"><img border="0" src="traduzioni_inglese.jpg" width="129" height="171" alt="English proofreading"></p> <div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="95%" id="AutoNumber18"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center"><p align="center"><b>Four eyes are better than two!</b></p> <p align="center">Have you written a text in English that you would like corrected professionally by an <b>English native speaker</b>?</p> <p align="center"><i>If so, look no further!</i></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p> </p> <div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="90%" id="AutoNumber17"> <tr> <td width="100%"><em style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Since I am a <b>freelance English proofreader</b>, <b>NOT an agency</b>, you have the following guarantees:</em> <ul> <li><em style="FONT-STYLE: normal">All your texts will be corrected by the <b>same person</b>, thus ensuring:<br> - consistent English native-speaker quality,<br> - consistent use of terminology,<br> - your company know-how is invested in one and the same person;</em> </li> <li><em style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><b>Lower prices </b>(no intermediary charge);</em> </li> <li><em style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><b>Direct contact with the proofreader</b> </em><em style="FONT-STYLE: normal"> not allowed by many agencies, but important for high-quality work.</em></li> </ul> <p> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p></font></font> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p> </p> <p><a name="Qualifications"></a></p> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center><table border="4" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#996633" width="85%" id="AutoNumber25" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="100%"><div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="90%" id="AutoNumber10"> <tr> <td width="39" valign="bottom" height="77"><img border="0" src="English_proofreading.jpg" width="39" height="77" alt="English proofreading"></td> <td valign="bottom" height="77"><h2 align="center"><font face="Arial" size="4">Qualifications</h2> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="39" valign="bottom" height="1"><img border="0" src="redbarsm.gif" width="39" height="4" alt="English correction"></td> <td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CC3300"><img border="0" src="rigarossa.gif" width="27" height="3" alt="English corrections"></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="90%" id="AutoNumber9"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p>Born and raised in a small village in the rolling countryside of the <b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationaltrails.gov.uk/ridgewayframeset.htm">Chiltern Hills</a></b> in county Buckinghamshire in the south of England, I later moved to Switzerland, where I learnt Italian, German and French.</p> <p>The English language has become my profession as I do <b><a target="main" href="English-translations.htm">English translations</a> </b>and <b>proofread texts written in English </b>for companies, institutions and private clients all over Switzerland in a wide range of fields, general and technical.</p> <p>My solid knowledge of <b>Italian</b>, <b>German</b> and <b>French</b> is extremely useful  i<style="font-family:Arial">ndeed essential<style="font-family:Arial">  for understanding what the author (often German, Italian or French native speakers) <i>really </i>meant to say when the words sometimes convey meanings other than those intended.</p> <p>I obtained my <strong>Diploma in Translation </strong>from the <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.doz.ch">School for Translators and Interpreters, Zurich (DOZ)</a></strong>, Switzerland / University of Surrey, England, in 1993.</p> <p><b><a target="main" href="tanya_harvey_ciampi.htm">Personal information...</a></b></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p> </p> <p><a name="Choosing the right person"></a></p> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center><table border="4" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#996633" width="85%" id="AutoNumber26" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="100%"><div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="90%" id="AutoNumber16"> <tr> <td width="39" valign="bottom" height="77"><img border="0" src="English_proofreading.jpg" width="39" height="77" alt="English proofreading"></td> <td valign="bottom" height="77"><h2 align="center"><font size="4">Choosing the right person</h2> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="39" valign="bottom" height="1"><img border="0" src="redbarsm.gif" width="39" height="4" alt="English correction"></td> <td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CC3300"><img border="0" src="rigarossa.gif" width="27" height="3" alt="English corrections"></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="90%" id="AutoNumber8"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <h4>Don't choose just <i>anybody </i>to correct your text in English!</h4> <h3>Why not?</h3> <p><em>I have a friend who once volunteered to take over an English proofreading job that I had begun while I was studying as I did not have the time to finish it </em><em> not a particularly technical text.</em></p> <p><em>Unfortunately, shortly afterwards, my friend told me that he was having serious trouble understanding the text, and therefore making the necessary corrections. He, too, was a highly qualified native speaker of English (with a university degree in the field in question </em><em> geology), but with one slight difference: he only spoke German, NO Italian.</em></p> <p><em>Now, since the author of the text was an Italian native speaker (thinking in Italian and writing down words in English), there were quite a few places in the text where one had to be fluent in Italian in order to be able to perform the reverse mental process of translating back into Italian (unscrambling the "Italian" English) and then into proper English </em><em> as a result of the distinctly Italian structure of the sentences and the choice of incorrect words in English.</em></p> <p>This real-life example shows just how important it is to choose <strong><em>the right person</em></strong> for your proofreading job: someone capable of grasping the <strong>exact meaning</strong> as intended by the author, picking up on any <strong>inconsistencies</strong> or <strong>unintended ambiguities</strong>, correcting any <strong>grammatical</strong> and <strong>lexical</strong> mistakes, improving the <strong>style</strong> and giving your text the professional linguistic attention that it deserves, bearing in mind the <strong>target audience</strong> (English native speakers, non-native speakers etc.) at all times.</p> <p>My foreign languages are <strong>German</strong>, <strong>Italian</strong> and <strong>French</strong>.</p> <p> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p> </p> <p><a name="Procedure"></a></p> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center><table border="4" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#996633" width="85%" id="AutoNumber27" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="100%"><div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="90%" id="AutoNumber11"> <tr> <td width="39" valign="bottom" height="77"><img border="0" src="English_proofreading.jpg" width="39" height="77" alt="English proofreading"></td> <td valign="bottom" height="77"><h2 align="center"><font face="Arial" size="4">Procedure</h2> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="39" valign="bottom" height="1"><img border="0" src="redbarsm.gif" width="39" height="4" alt="English correction"></td> <td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CC3300"><img border="0" src="rigarossa.gif" width="27" height="3" alt="English corrections"></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="90%" id="AutoNumber13"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p>You may <b><a target="principale" href="#Contact">send</a></b> me your text either in <b>paper </b>or <b>electronic format</b>.</p> <p>The corrections may be made in either of the following ways:</p> <div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="90%" id="AutoNumber15"> <tr> <td width="4%" valign="top">1)</td> <td width="96%" valign="top"><b>by hand</b> on a print-out (using <b><a target="_blank" href="proofmarks.pdf">proofreaders' marks</a></b>), which I will return to you by post;<br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%" valign="top">2)</td> <td width="96%" valign="top">directly<b> in the electronic document</b>.<br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%" valign="top"></td> <td width="96%" valign="top"><u><b><a name="view-corrections">To</a> view the changes that I have made, proceed as follows:</b></u><p>Compare the documents in MS Word:<br> <font size="2">(instructions for MS Word in <b><a href="correzioni-inglese.htm#visualizzazione-correzioni">Italian</a></b>/<b><a href="Englisch-Korrekturlesen.htm#korrekturen-ansehen">German</a></b>)</p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="100%" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr> <td width="4%" valign="top">1.</td> <td width="96%" valign="top">Open the corrected version of your document.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%" valign="top">2.</td> <td width="96%" valign="top">From the <b>Tools </b>menu select <b>Compare and join documents</b>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%" valign="top">3.</td> <td width="96%" valign="top">Tick the box <b>Preview of comparison</b><font size="2"> (this way the documents will not be modified, and the changes will be shown in a <i>new document</i>), select the <b>original document </b>and then click on <b>Compare</b>.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%" valign="top">4.</td> <td width="96%" valign="top">The document that appears will highlight all the changes that have been made.</td> </tr> </table> <p></font> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p> </p> <p><a name="Price"></a></p> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center><table border="4" cellpadding="0" 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