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English editing services

“Good writing doesn’t come naturally, though most people seem to think it does.” — William Zinsser

Whether you’re a writer, a scholar, an entrepreneur, a scientist, or any other professional, I’ll make your manuscript fit for purpose. I’ll edit your document to make the text accurate, clear, and coherent. The message you intend to communicate to the reader shouldn’t be hidden in irrelevant details, distorted by convoluted sentences, or marred by sloppy punctuation.

English editing—areas of expertise

  • Academic editing (specialties: business and economics, natural sciences)
    • Research articles for peer-reviewed journals
    • Dissertations, theses, job market papers*
    • Research proposals, reports, and presentations
    • Course materials
    • Books
  • Technical editing
    • Project management books and courses
    • Geology and geophysics materials

* Are you a grad student? If you’re enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program, before hiring a freelance editor to edit your PhD thesis, dissertation, job market paper, or manuscript for a peer-reviewed journal, please ensure that your university allows you to use professional editing services for your academic work. It will save you headaches, time, and money. For more details, please check my FAQs page.

My English editing service comprises copyediting and language editing

  1. Correcting errors of grammar, syntax, and word usage
  2. Fixing mechanical errors (hyphenation, capitalization, punctuation, use of italic and bold font, format of endnotes and footnotes, etc.) to ensure the document conforms to publisher’s style guide or the client’s preferred editorial style (such as Chicago, APA, or AP)
  3. Improving sentence structure by rewriting long or unclear sentences
  4. Suggesting improvements of style without altering the author’s voice: eliminating clutter, improving verb choice, varying sentence length, using the active voice, etc.
  5. Suggesting ways to reorganize the content to improve flow and logic
  6. Querying any content inconsistency or anything else that may need the author’s attention
  7. Ensuring the document uses the right voice and tone for its target audience, and eliminating biased language
  8. Checking endnotes, footnotes, appendixes, and figure and table captions
  9. Explaining my major editing choices (for example, rewriting or deleting a sentence) in plain English

Optional (for an additional fee)

    • Checking in-text citations against the reference list
    • Checking and correcting the reference list
    • Formatting the reference list or bibliography according to the publisher’s style guide

My English editing service does not comprise

  1. Adding content or performing additional research
  2. Ensuring the correctness of the content, but I’ll query any fact that I believe is inaccurate or incorrect
  3. Checking that the math symbols in formulas or equations are defined in the text
  4. Editing mathematical formulas or equations
  5. Fixing the document’s structure if there are formatting errors because of file format conversion
  6. Rewriting the entire document or entire sections
  7. Checking for plagiarism or ensuring the document is original
  8. Critiquing the content
  9. Designing or fixing the layout of your manuscript
  10. Editing or designing tables or illustrations

The service you need is not listed?

If you need additional services related to academic editing or technical editing, please send me a message at editor@languageediting.com.

What I do not edit

  • I do not edit fiction.
  • I do not edit undergraduate academic work.
  • I do not edit manuscripts that are outside my areas of expertise.
  • I do not edit materials that infringe copyright.
  • I do not edit materials covering topics that I do not feel comfortable reading about.

I reserve the right to refuse service to people who do not respect me, my time, or my work.

My policy on editing A.I. content

I edit texts created by human writers with or without the assistance of A.I. tools. If you want to hire me to edit A.I.-created texts, I am not the best editor for you. Editing content created by a tool requires a different approach than editing a manuscript written by a human, and I have not edited enough A.I.-generated texts to feel confident about my ability to edit such texts.