Editing Scrivener (section)

==Current role==
Scriveners remain common mainly in countries where literacy rates remain low, such as India. In these countries, scriveners will read letters for illiterate customers, as well as write letters or fill out forms for a fee. In areas with very high literacy rates, they are far less common, though social welfare organizations and public libraries will sometimes assist persons of low-literacy in filling out official forms, and drafting formal correspondences. 

Despite the high literacy rate, in [[France]], "public writers" (''écrivains publics'') are still common. Their job mainly consists of composing formal writings like [[curricula vitae]] or [[motivation letter]]s for people who do not write well, as well as other things like [[advertisement]]s, or [[ghostwriting]] books. In [[French-speaking Belgium]] their return dates from 1999, in an effort to curb semi-literacy and broader socio-cultural inequality; they also include services like reading out loud.<ref>[http://www.pac-g.be Présence et action culturelles]</ref>