Level 3 - Premium Substantive Content Editing
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
- onfirming 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”
– One “Multi-Round Edit” before the “Final Proofread”