Posts Tagged ‘Standard Editing’
Monday, February 7th, 2011
 Make no mistake about it: English language has many rules and exceptions that can befuddle even a native speaker. For a non-native speaker of English, meeting the university expectations for academic writing can turn into a nightmare. If it did for you, seek out professional editing services. This is the best way to get help with your academic English paper.
We all know this: It is no longer enough for a university student to find an exciting topic and have original ideas about it. Because so many people around the world have become proficient in English, how you communicate is nowadays as important as what you communicate. When you are bogged down by all those confusing cases of choosing between “less” and “fewer” or “which” and “that,” when you are unsure all your commas are placed correctly, or when you cannot tell if your sentences make sense to a native speaker, it means you need help.
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
 So the degree-culminating paper is done, after months—maybe years!—of work. Now you’re ready to kick back and relax a bit before submitting it to your prof—after a thorough proofreading, of course.
But wait—should you just rely on your word processing program’s spell/grammar check, or do you need to spring for a professional academic editor? Technology’s come a long way, after all, and those programs are pretty advanced these days: They claim to find all your errors…
Of course, for questions about how to conform to style guides, there are some super online resources out there: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ and http://www.mla.org/ , for example, or http://www.docstyles.com/ for a site that covers practically every academic style guide you might be likely to use. It’s easy enough to use these resources to find the answer to any style questions you might have, like how to cite that unusual source or how to format a long quote. And there are some programs out there that claim to format to various style guide specifications, too, if you’re really brave. (Note that none are recommended; read on for an explanation.) (more…)
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
You’re a foreign student at an English-speaking university and your dissertation is due. You’ve done your best, but you know that your English is not perfect – this is where professional editing services can help.
The English language, although seeming comparatively easy to speak, when written, it can be a different story, as it is full of little idiosyncrasies. The most common mistakes, and these apply to native English speakers too (this is an example of one!), are there (over there) and their (their party); its (its leaves began to fall) and it’s (it’s their party; i.e., short for ‘it is’); then (then I went home) and than (rather than going shopping). I’m sure you can think of many others. It’s easy to see how these words can be confused. This explains why you need help from professional editing services
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
 Writing a research paper for a peer-reviewed journal can be a challenge, in particular if you are writing as a first author for the first time. However, this is usually not an isolated process and you would have, by this stage, co-authored some publications with your colleagues or external collaborators. Nevertheless, each new submission should be approached with care. The first step is to identify the target journal, as this will determine your audience and the level of scrutiny by the referees. It will, to some extent, also influence your writing style, the length and the format of the paper. (more…)
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
 You’ve finished writing your book, article, ad copy, or dissertation. The hardest part is over… or not? No good writer nowadays can succeed without editing, and self-editing is a part of good writing. This article will reveal a professional editor’s tips on how to self-edit effectively without killing yourself over it.
To self-edit, you need to know two things: what to look for and how to distance yourself from your work. The secrets of effective self-editing are to follow the editing basics and to review your book, article, or ad copy as if someone else wrote it. (more…)
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