Substantive editing service
- Personalized direct service
- Punctual service - deadlines clear and met!
- Extra fast turnarounds possible
My speciality is editing technical academic papers written by non-native speakers, but I am also available for other editing projects.
Rate
Standard rate is 80 US$ for first 1000 words, rates per word decreasing for longer texts.
Journal Submission and Editing Process
- Article written by researcher.
- Article is edited by this service.
- Article is returned with prompts/comments for clarification from author as necessary to resolve ambiguities.
- Outstanding sections are re-edited according to author feedback.
- Article is submitted by researcher for peer review. (Help wih submission correspondence available if required.)
- Article sections rewritten according to journal’s peer-review feedback and edited by this service.
Aspects covered by editing service
Checking language, including:
- natural flow, both grammatically and semantically
- conciseness
- use of appropriately formal language (register)
- appropriate and accurate and natural word usage (lexicon)
- grammar
- normal native speaker language
Checking structure, including:
- following general journal norms
- overall coherence - systematic and logical connections
Checking meaning, including:
- ambiguities
- contradictions
- overall sense
- general journal norms conducive to publication
Providing comments as necessary to:
- ask author for clarification of intended meaning
- ask author to verify changes made
- suggest further changes
The following help is also available:
- journal formatting
- (The use of templates often avoids formatting issues.)
- referencing, including in AMA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE styles
- (Many tools do this automatically now.)
- correspondence with review boards
- cover letters to journal
- responses to peer feedback