A former instructor has contacted me and asked me to proofread/edit her materials. She asked me for a quote/proposal.
These are technical manuals. They are densely written (single-spaced with about 570 words per page, and the first manual is 200 pages long). Additionally, some pages have 'side-bar'-type inserts and some have diagrams. This manual has table of contents (3 pages of 2 columns/page) and index (10 pages of 3 columns of terms/page) as well.
During my career, I did a fair amount of proofreading and editing as part of my mega-corp job, as I was one of those [-]seemingly rare[/-] engineers who knew how to spell. So I never had to 'bid' on a proofreading job.
I'm wondering [-]if[/-] how I should bid this job....by word? by page? by hour? And what is a reasonable fee per "unit"?
Do any of you have any suggestions or experience with this?
Thanks,
omni
These are technical manuals. They are densely written (single-spaced with about 570 words per page, and the first manual is 200 pages long). Additionally, some pages have 'side-bar'-type inserts and some have diagrams. This manual has table of contents (3 pages of 2 columns/page) and index (10 pages of 3 columns of terms/page) as well.
During my career, I did a fair amount of proofreading and editing as part of my mega-corp job, as I was one of those [-]seemingly rare[/-] engineers who knew how to spell. So I never had to 'bid' on a proofreading job.
I'm wondering [-]if[/-] how I should bid this job....by word? by page? by hour? And what is a reasonable fee per "unit"?
Do any of you have any suggestions or experience with this?
Thanks,
omni