DOCUMENT EDITING AND PROOFREADING

At Hit Send, we ensure your annual reports and long business documents
are impeccable.

  • We bring fresh eyes: Hit Send offers thorough, professional proofreading and editing of reports, annual reports, strategies, award entries, tenders, training manuals, eBooks etc.

  • Our promise: You will find us helpful, responsive and professional. We bring intelligence and analytical brains to our editing. Our editors are based in Australia, and we specialise in Australian and British English.

  • Types of editing: You may ask for a proofread, copyedit, or a rewrite in plain English. Many clients ask for a copyedit in Word and a final proofread in PDF.

  • What we do: We check English grammar, spelling, consistency, style and formatting. We bring fresh eyes when you need them most to ensure your message is clear and you are ready to hit ‘send’.

We edit reports, annual reports, tenders, handbooks, training manuals, online course materials, web and app copy, school magazines, PowerPoint slides, information memoranda and much more.

Hit Send is a preferred provider of copyediting and proofreading to several Tasmanian Government departments.

Here are some examples of our work; there are more in our portfolio.

Annual reports

We have copyedited or proofread approximately 60 annual reports. Our recent and generally repeat clients include the following.

Australian Government

Department of Finance

Tasmanian Government

TasRail

Metro Tasmania

TasWater

Department of Health

Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens

Teachers Registration Board

Tasracing

Department of Natural Resources and Environment

Tasmania Police

ASX-listed

South32 Annual reporting suite

MyState Limited

Education and research

Phoenix Centre (University of Melbourne)

Menzies Institute of Medical Research

University of Tasmania

Roseville College, Sydney

Not-for-Profit

Association for Children with Disability Tasmania

Cornerstone Youth Services Inc

Palliative Care Tasmania

Maddie Rievoldt’s Vision

Meridian

Other reports and long documents

Good Governance Guide for Local Government in Tasmania (2022)

Tasmanian Government Discounts and Concessions Guide 2022-23

“Thank goodness you’re here!” Now get elected and make a difference (book by Suzy Cooper, 2022)

Independent Review of the Tasmanian State Service (2021)

Bridgewater Bridge Major Project Impact Statement (2021)

Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Tourism Master Plan 2021

Freycinet Peninsula Master Plan 2019

Huonville Ranelagh Master Plan 2019

Various documents about the Murray–Darling River for the Government of South Australia 2017–2019

Suite of white papers for the Global Digital Health Partnership (Australian Government, Canberra) 2019, 2020

Business Events Tasmania, Planners Guide (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21)

Report of the Independent Review into the Tasmanian Floods of June and July 2016 (2017)

Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Management Plan (2016)

Anglicare Tasmania website

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You may not have used a business document editor before.

Would you like to discuss what’s involved, what’s in scope, and how we may help?

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What our clients say

‘The service from Hit Send is fast, thorough and friendly. Mel understands what constitutes a high standard of written communication.’

Miranda Harman, Marketing and Communications Manager, Menzies Institute for Medical Research

‘Mel Roome is so easy to work with and very quickly had an understanding of our needs within our limitations. The outcome of the editing was fresh but retained the intent of the document.’

Jen Cramer, Executive Assistant 
Inland Fisheries Service

Do any of these problems sound familiar?

If so, you may need an editor

Report fatigue. We see this a lot, and it’s understandable. You’ve no doubt been immersed in the project for some time. Writing it all up can feel like the last straw, and no doubt other projects are competing for your time.

The good news is we’ll probably do a better job of checking your report, just by virtue of bringing fresh eyes to the task (let alone being professional editors). It’s almost impossible with your own work to spot the mistakes or areas where your message is not coming through clearly.

Moreover, if we do the editing, just think of what you can get on with instead.

Protecting your business from reputation damage is perhaps the number 1 reason for hiring an editor.

We know how embarrassing errors can be. Impressions count, even in an age of text messages and social media. Often enough, what you write will end up being visible to everyone online.

We won’t list here (or anywhere) the howlers we have spared our clients from having published. However, ‘You really saved my bacon’ is a phrase we have heard often enough that we feel our lives are worthwhile.

It’s just possible that while your expertise is sound, the structure, formatting and language of your final report is letting you down.

Hit Send editors are experienced at editing reports. We can help make sure your report is professional, your message is succinct and your recommendations are clear. If you have had several authors contribute to your report, we will be on the lookout for inconsistencies in spelling, terms and voice.

We’ll bring an intelligent eye to your final report and thus help you win repeat business.

Have you worked out what is causing all the questions? Might your customers be confused by the wording of your website? Or by the letters or emails you send out?

Hit Send editors are experienced in editing web copy and company letter templates. We can do this in plain English.

Once your templates are clearly written, you can be confident about sending out letters and emails to customers in future. That should lead to less time spent on the phone – and less cost to your business.

Your tender submission certainly needs to stand above other submissions to be successful. It must look professional, be well ordered, and answer all questions succinctly. Contact us as early as possible in the process, as there are documents such as CVs that we can start working on with you.

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