Hiring Experienced Copy Editors | Style Editors

Straive; Chennai District; On-site; INR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Straive is hiring for a Copy Editing role in Chennai. The role focuses on refining author text for readability, ensuring language accuracy, and applying style guidelines to research articles.

You will handle complex tables, equations, and math-heavy content, with exposure to various style manuals. The candidate should have 2+ years in copy editing/linguistic editing, excellent English communication, and strong grammar.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of copy editing / language editing / style editing experience with emphasis on quality.
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken).
• Strong grammar, especially subject-verb agreement.

Responsibilities

• Enhance author text to improve readability of research articles.
• Handle high-level copy editing including style and language aspects.
• Manage heavy math articles/books and complex tables/chemical equations.
• Familiar with Chicago, APA, CBE, AMA, MLA style guides.

Skills

Copy Editing

English Grammar

MS Office

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Straive is Hiring for Copy Editing Role

Summary:

Copy editors are the most important link between the author and the readers giving final touch to the book/journal article in terms of its content by paying attention to language, styling, spelling, grammar, punctuation, headings, styling and formatting of references. Indexing work, if known, is an added advantage.

Job Description:

• Enhancing authors text to improve the overall readability of research articles.
• Handling high level of copy editing which includes both style and language aspects.
• Handling heavy math articles/books.
• Handling complex tables and chemical equations.
• Familiar with various style manuals such as Chicago, APA, CBE, AMA and MLA.
• Enhancing the authors language style.
• Eye for details to identify poorly written articles.

Requirements:

• 2+ year of experience in Copy Editing / Language Editing/Style Editing of Books/Journals with high emphasis on quality.
• Excellent command over English (both written and verbal skills).
• Strong in English grammar, especially in subjectverb agreement.
• Proficiency in MS Office suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

Shift Timing Rotational:

• 1st Shift: 6.00AM to 2.00PM
• 2nd Shift: 2.00PM to 9.00PM

Contact : Keerthana S

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