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Standard Line Editing

INDUSTRY STANDARD REVISIONS

Line Editing is your ideal choice when seeking professional editing services for ongoing revisions. Your Line Editor addresses your writing style, creative content, and use of language at the sentence and paragraph level.

Line Editing focuses on how you communicate with your reader. It corrects your sentence and paragraph structure, checks for subject-verb agreement, and inserts transitional phrasing as appropriate. Standard Line Editing includes our Basic Copy Editing services (correcting spelling, grammar, punctuation, word usage; eliminating jargon and repetition; ensuring style consistency; and adjusting compositional spacing). Line Editing is a more technical editing style which adheres to your chosen style guide.

Your professional Line Editor improves the continuity and flow of your writing and support statements. You also receive in-line editorial remarks, suggestions, and feedback throughout your manuscript.

Line Editing is the writing industry standard. Publishing agents and university professors recommend this as the minimum level of professional editing prior to submitting for review and consideration.

Standard Line Editing

INDUSTRY STANDARD REVISIONS

Standard Line Edit corrects your sentence and paragraph structure, checks for subject-verb agreement, and inserts transitional phrasing as appropriate. Your Line Editor addresses your writing style, creative content, and use of language at the sentence and paragraph level. Line editing focuses on your language and communication with your reader.

Standard Line Edit includes our Basic Copy Editing services (correcting spelling, grammar, punctuation, word usage; eliminating jargon and repetition; ensuring style consistency; and adjusting compositional spacing).

Your professional Line Editor improves the continuity and flow of your writing and support statements. You also receive editorial remarks, suggestions, and feedback throughout your manuscript.

Line editing is the writing industry standard most recommended by publishing agents prior to submitting for review and consideration.

Impact Publishing Package

This is the Comprehensive Developmental Editing and Publishing Service for researchers and academically publishing authors.

You receive a consultation with a highly qualified Subject Matter Expert and technical editor early in your writing process to create a higher impact with your research. Increased competition makes it difficult to publish in premier journals.

Our expert Developmental Impact Editors collaborate closely with you to create a compelling manuscript that distinguishes your important work and impresses high-impact journal editors.

“Level 4 – Developmental Impact Editing and Publishing Package” includes ALL Levels of Editing (see below) plus the advanced services of:

• Consulting online at an early stage to ensure high-quality documentation
• Collaborating with an expert Developmental Impact Editor with extensive subject matter, publication, and production value expertise
• Optimizing your Abstract for Impact Ratings and online exposure

ADDITIONAL SERVICES FOR FREE:

1. FREE High Impact English” Language Enhancement to highlight the core elements of your research (Value of $.045/word)
2. FREE Three Multi-Round Edits (MRE) within 6 months if required* (Value of $.028/word)
3. Proofreading – ONE FREE Final Proof and Quality Check” of your corrections* (Value of $.022/word)

“Level 3 – Substantive Content Editing” includes:

• Receiving a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Scientific Research Editing
• Implementing a professional Content Review and Abstract Critique
• Critiquing your supporting visual elements, such as tables, images, figures, diagrams, and schematics
• Recommending improvements to tables, images, figures, diagrams, and schematics

“Level 2 –  Advanced Academic English Editing” includes:

• Reducing up to 10% of your word count as necessary
• Reworking basic sentence and paragraph structure
• Formatting to journal style guidelines (e.g., APA, MLA)
• Modifying & enhancing your use of the technical English language
• Assigning a Scientific Editor experienced in your field of study
• Confirming the meaning and substance of your manuscript communicates accurately
• Critiquing the presentation, flow, continuity, and consistency of thoughts
• Evaluating the evidence provided to support claims, assertions, and conclusions
• Validating technical accuracy
• Communicating directly during and after editing

“Level 1 – Standard Technical Editing” includes:

• Correcting spelling, grammar, and punctuation
• Eliminating jargon, repetition, and redundancy
• Using Tracked Changes to show all modifications
• Rectifying basic English language
• Fixing citations and references format
• Correcting your technical English language
• Verifying style and terminology consistency
• Issuing a FREE Editing Certificate upon request

Premium Substantive Content Edit

Substantive Content Editing provides honest feedback and an academic evaluation of your overall concept, presentation, and cohesion of theses.

Substantive Content Editing critiques your manuscript’s presentation, flow/continuity, and consistency of proposal. It ensures support of all statements, and it provides formatting according to industry style guides, including your citations, references, and footnotes.

Choose Content Editing for your first round of editing and always prior to peer review or public distribution as it is comprehensive.

LEVEL 3 – PREMIUM SUBSTANTIVE CONTENT EDITING includes Level 1 and Level 2 (see below) plus the advanced services of:

• Substantive Editing, which focuses on the organization, structure, content, and presentation from a high-level academic and technical perspective
• Collaborating with a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for scientific research editing
• Receiving a professional Content Review and Abstract Critique
• Examining your supporting visual elements, such as tables, images, figures, diagrams, and schematics
• Recommending improvements to tables, images, figures, diagrams, and schematics

• PLUS, Level 2 – Advanced Academic English Editing:
• Reducing up to 10% of your word count as necessary
• Reworking basic sentence and paragraph structure
• Formatting according to journal style guidelines (e.g., APA, MLA)
• Modifying and enhancing your use of the technical English language
• Assigning an Academic Editor experienced in your field of study
• Confirming the meaning and substance of your manuscript
• Critiquing the presentation, flow, continuity, and consistency of thoughts
• Evaluating the evidence statements provided to support claims, assertions, and conclusions
• Communicating directly during and after editing

• PLUS, Level 1 – Standard Technical Editing:
• Correcting spelling, grammar, and punctuation
• Eliminating jargon, repetition, and redundancy
• Using Microsoft Word Track Changes to show all modifications
• Rectifying basic English language
• Fixing citations and references format
• Correcting your technical English language
• Verifying style and terminology consistency
• Issuing a FREE Editing Certificate upon request

RECOMMENDED ADD-ONS:
– One “Final Proofread” of prior manuscript submission’s corrections
– One “Multi-Round Edit” before the “Final Proofread”