Deb Doyle
Learn from an IPEd-aligned professional who has 35-plus years of industry experience and is a safe pair of hands. AI is a great resource but no substitute for a human expert! Please see my projects and testimonials.
Avoid project delays and reduce internal misunderstandings and the amount of time spent on revision cycles. All your communications must be clear, coherent, consistent, correct and complete. In these days of information overload and short attention spans, clear communication is even more of a priority than value for money.
To arrange a free 30-minute consultation, please email me at deb@debdoyle.com.au or phone me on 0401 028 926 in Australia or +61 401 028 926 internationally.
Courses
With the five UAP (Urban Art Projects) staff members who’d just completed my eight-hour Grammar and Punctuation: The Basics course, at The Commons, Surry Hills, Sydney on Thursday, 29 May 2025
Group courses
Eight-hour boot camps
Options: Grammar and Punctuation: The basics | Grammar and Copy Editing: Exercises | The Parts of Speech: Nouns, verbs and the other seven | All Your Sentences Sorted: Simple, compound, complex and compound–complex | Perfect Punctuation: Commas, colons and co. | Writing Effective Paragraphs: What you need to know
Outcome: collegial mastery of syntax, punctuation and editorial imperatives so your team’s communications are error free and of an enviably high standard
Maximum 12 workmates | In person or via video conference | Workbook (printed or PDF), name plate, evaluation sheet and signed certificate for each participant | Optional purchase of my self-published text-workbook Grey Areas and Gremlins: A grammar and punctuation refresher ($45 print; $35 PDF); view and order from the online shop.
One full-day workshop (eight hours, including a 30-minute lunch break and two 15-minute breaks): A$3200
Two half-day (four-hour) workshops, each including a 30-minute break): A$1400
Four two-hour sessions, flexibly delivered and no breaks: A$3200
One hour-long seminar or webinar
Suggested topics: The nine parts of speech | The 12 tenses of English | Active and passive voice | Phrases | Clauses: subject, verb and predicate | The seven types of sentence | The punctuation marks | En and em dashes | ‘Quotation marks’ and italicisation | The three ways to set up a bulleted list (dot points) | Unity, coherence and development in paragraphs | Fee: A$500
One-on-one tuition
Outcome: individualised mastery of syntax, punctuation and editorial imperatives so you can more confidently justify your corrections and changes to anyone, including yourself
Option 1
Grammar and Punctuation: The basics | Four two-hour sessions, flexibly delivered | Fee: A$960 (A$120 per hour)
Option 2
22 Hours with the Grammar Guru | 11 two-hour sessions or five four-hour sessions, flexibly delivered | Discussing your questions as they arise and using your own examples to supplement mine and reinforce the learning | Fee: A$2640 (A$120 per hour)
Option 3
Customised Editing and Tuition | As many two-hour sessions as you like | Tailored copy editing of your own sample document/s | Identification of each grammatical clause’s subject, verb and predicate in both the original and the suggested edit, to aid understanding of how to solve the common problems | Indication of any author queries | Optional creation of an editorial stylesheet | Fees: A$70 per hour or pro rata for (1) editing the copy and (2) identifying the grammatical elements; A$120 per hour for the tuition
Services
Editing and proofreading
Editing (changing the original typescript): Optional preparation of an editorial review and/or an editorial stylesheet | Optional sample edit of a chapter or section | Tracking of the changes in your double-spaced Word file so you can accept or reject any or all of them | Seamless balancing of authorial voice/s and clarity, coherence, consistency and correctness | Efficient elimination of all embarrassing errors so the standard surpasses your competitors’ | Fairy dusting and sparkling up of even the driest prose | Optional preparation of a standard freelance editorial agreement and a confidentiality clause
Proofreading (checking the designer’s proofs): marking all typographical errors and layout problems for the designer to correct
Fees: A$70–A$100 per hour, dependent on budget, timeline, complexity and expectations
Writing and copy writing
Identification of your document’s purpose and readers | Structuring and/or drafting | Research and fact checking | Rewriting and/or heavy editing | Incorporation of multiple contributors’ input | Seamless balancing of authorial voice/s and the imperatives of clear communication | Use of as few words and as many verbs as possible | Fee: A$200 per hour
Books, art and collections
My text-workbooks, including Grey Areas and Gremlins: A grammar and punctuation refresher, are available to order from the online shop.
For many years, I’ve been creating black and white line drawings and cartoons as well as colourful illustrations and posters. View and order my ‘Give pigs a chance’ poster.
A collection of my artwork, articles, ephemera and music products is housed at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (the Powerhouse Museum), in Sydney.