Frequently Asked Questions - Services - For Students and Academics
What types of academic documents do you edit?
We cover most all documents related to Academia, including Phd these, Journal articles, Dissertations, essays, presentations, Academic and scientific books, Reviews of journal submissions, book synopses and descriptions. Research proposals, laboratory reports and summaries, teaching materials, as well as grant application, and degree applications.
Who will be editing my work?
Your designated editor will be a published academic with over 10 years experience in both editing and their subject of expertise. Your designated editor will have extensive experience in the subject matter of your work.
I'm submitting an article to an academic journal. Can you help me prepare it?
Absolutely, Our services provide the professional editing required to enhance your work and get it ready for publication. Your designated expert editor will correct spelling, ensure grammatical correctness, fix any typing errors, and enhance the flow of your writing to make it clear and coherent, and ensure that expresses all your ideas in the best possible way. We will also apply the style guide of your choice to your references and citations and for clients using our expert critique service, your designated editor will provide expert critical commentary throughout the document to ensure that each and every area that can be improved is addressed.
We appreciate that you've put a great deal of time and effort into your work, and we want to help you ensure that your work is not rejected because it lacked a final polish.
I have an essay on the French and Indian War. It's due tomorrow! Cab you write my essay for me?
Unfortunately, none of our services offer doing your work for you. Our services are designed to help your authentic work get to the best version of itself. If you have a set of ideas about your essay but don't feel you have the time or linguistic expertise to express them clearly, or need help developing these ideas further, then our Expert critique service or our paraphrasing service will help you develop and express your ideas clearly and effectively. But the essence of the work and ideas must always come from you.
I'm great at understanding concepts, but I struggle to write them clearly. Can you help me?
Absolutely. Depending on the level of service you have chosen, we will ensure that your ideas are expressed clearly and coherently with an organic flow. We can suggests revisions, and enhance the content, writing, and structure of your work.
Can I choose between US English, British English, Canadian English, and Australian English?
Yes, of course. Just let us know which type of English standard you require. We work with editors from the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
My work needs to conform to a particular style guide, but I have no experience in it. Can you help?
Definitely. Just let us know which style guide your work needs to conform to and we will do the rest. Your designated editor will have extensive experience in working with all major style guides, and will ensure that your work conforms to it in the best possible way.
What style guides are you able to work with?
We can apply any style guide to your work. The most common style guides we work with are Harvard referencing, APA, Turabian, MLA, Chicago manual of style, and CSE. Your editor can easily apply any specific style guide, such as a particular journal's style guide or a specific internal style guide, if you send us the details.
The journal I am submitting to requires a specific unique style guide? Can you apply this to my work?
Yes for sure. If your target journal has a specific unique style guides, just let us know the name of your target journal and, if possible, send us a link to the specific style guidelines. Your designated editor will ensure that your work adheres to your target journal's guidelines.
My work is highly private and confidential. Can you guarantee that it stays confidential?
Absolutely. We value your work and appreciate the amount of trust you put into us and our editors when you choose to work with us. We take this responsibility very seriously.
We guarantee that the only people who can have access to your work are the editing manager, who will be in touch with you during every step of the process, and the proofreader/ editor who will be editing your work.
All our staff members and editors have already been signed to very strict confidentiality agreements, as well as an NDA pertaining to any work they receive from us. In fact, your designated editing manager and proofreader are both bound to delete all copies of your work from their systems once they have completed editing your work.
My document is very large. Can I submit my work in parts?
Yes, absolutely. We work on a chapter-by-chapter basis anyway, whereby our editor only moves on to the next chapter of your work after we receive your approval.
We also appreciate that, in some cases, your work might still be in progress and is yet to be completed, or you might wish for us to only work on a section of it. This is completely fine, just let us know and we will be sure to pass on the details to your designated editor.
I'm a student and I need to hand in my essay very soon! How fast is your service?
We pride ourselves in offering a much faster turn-around than 90% of similar service providers, while offering a much cheaper price, and the same standard of quality, if not a better one. Our minimum guaranteed turnaround is 20,000 words per day for our proofreading and paraphrasing services, and 10,000 words per day for our copy-editing and expert critique levels of service. This turnaround time starts from the day we email you confirmation that your designated editor has started editing your work. If your deadline is urgent please be sure to let us know and your designated editing manager will be sure to liaise with you to reasonably meet your time constraints.
I'm a student and would like you to edit mt work. Will my professor know that I used your service ?
Most certainly not. We value your privacy and personal confidentiality as much as we value the confidentiality of your work. We apply the same strict confidentiality rules that we do to your work, to your identity, and the NDAs to which we sign all our staff members and editors also include strict confidentiality rules pertaining to your identity. No one will know that you have used our service except for your designated editor and your designated editing manager, and they are both legally bound to keep all your information strictly confidential in all circumstances.