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Academic Editing
Academic editing goes beyond correcting errors. It improves how clearly and smoothly your writing reads, while keeping your arguments, findings and voice exactly as you intend them.
What academic editing can include
The exact scope is agreed with you before work begins, based on your document and what matters most to you.
- Improving sentence clarity, flow and readability
- Refining word choice and academic register
- Ensuring consistent terminology, tense and style
- Correcting grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Comments where meaning is ambiguous, rather than guessing at your intent
Editing that respects academic integrity
We work on the text you have written. We do not write assessed work on your behalf, and we never alter your data, findings or conclusions.
If your institution or publisher has rules about editing support, please check them before you get in touch, and we will work within them. We cannot promise grades, acceptance or publication; those decisions rest with your institution or publisher.
Related services
- ProofreadingCorrect grammar, spelling, punctuation, and typographical errors.
- Journal Manuscript EditingImprove the language and readability of manuscripts prepared for scholarly communication.
- Thesis and Dissertation EditingSupport the language, formatting consistency, and presentation of academic research documents.
How it works
A simple, considered process.
Three steps, with nothing assumed and the scope agreed before work begins.
Step 1: Tell us about your document.
Share what you are working on: the type of document, its approximate length, and any deadline you have in mind.
Step 2: Discuss the editing support you need.
We talk through the level of support that suits your document, any style guide you follow, and what matters most to you.
Step 3: Receive the agreed service.
Your document is edited according to the scope and timeline we have confirmed together before any work begins.
Start a conversation
Have a document in progress?
Tell us what you are working on, and we will reply to discuss the support that suits it.