The focus of HyperGraphix is our Essay Editing & Proofreading service but we also do full service Desktop Publishing. Please visit our Services page to contact us for a quote or more information on some of the projects we have completed. We also have a Facebook page for announcements and special offers. For general inquiries, use the email address on the right, or use our contact form.
Based in the scenic village of Gibsons, B.C., just a short ferry ride from bustling Vancouver, HyperGraphix is owned and operated by Peter J. Francis. I have an Honors B.A. in English and a Bachelor of Education degree. I am also a licensed teacher, so you can be assured of the highest grammatical skills. I specialize in working with students with learning challenges, so I am well aware that some very bright people can have difficulties expressing themselves in correct English.
I offer free grammar help because it keeps me on my toes. Your questions often send me prying into reference books to find the rules behind the errors. Similarly, my essay writing advice helps me hone my skills for my own students.
The focus of my business right now is helping college and university students navigate through their essay writing difficulties. I don't write essays; I think that's just wrong. But I do fix grammar for people who have done their research and know what they want to say. Using "Track Changes" in MS Word, I show them every error so they can improve their writing skills.
I also do desktop publishing. I have been involved in desktop publishing for over 20 years, and I was editing back in the days of typewriters. Prior to starting HyperGraphix in 1989, I managed the document creation department of the Vancouver office of Deloitte & Touche, a major accounting and management consulting firm. I came to believe that the cost savings which desktop publishing was earning large companies was not always available to companies not needing in-house DTP departments. HyperGraphix is my vision of a solution to that gap. My clients have included a major investment company, law firms and retail outlets, a municipal government as well as individuals and non-profit organizations.
After more than 20 years in the desktop publishing business, I tend to leave design-heavy projects to people trained more thoroughly in graphic design. Getting the right person for the right job is key to spending your publishing dollar wisely. Check out my hints for saving money on desktop publishing. I prefer to be involved in projects where grammatical skills are the priority. Everyone has their main skill set and mine is getting the words right. It's common to see both printed and web material full of grammatical errors. I'm shocked to see a multi-thousand dollar ad campaign with terrible errors that damage the credibility of the business trying to promote itself.
Because I'm now a full-time teacher of English and social studies, I'm limiting my editing work to projects of a manageable size that I can do with the time I have available. I'd be happy to consider any requests, however.
As the technical complexity of the world wide web increases, content creation is increasingly in the hands of technical competent but grammatically challenged techno-nerds. Why pay top dollar for design and production services to create web pages that have terrible grammatical errors? Stop the madness! Let me give you an estimate to make your web pages grammar perfect.
