The focus is on language, mechanics and format.

Editing ensures that you have clearly and appropriately represented your research, ideas and interpretations in a way that your audience can understand and value. Copy editing makes certain that your message is understandable, free of jargon, and concisely articulated. The quality copyedit centers on the structure and form of the paper. The document is polished so that it is free of grammatical flaws, errors in punctuation and spelling, is properly formatted, and is free of repetition.

We address syntax, focus on oddly phrased sentences, errors in word choice and ambiguous meanings, all to ensure that your language flows cogently, and that your ideas are represented as you intend.

This kind of edit places a critical eye not only on what you say but how you say it.

Line editing embodies the full scope of copy editing. However, it is more nuanced, and stylistic. Line editing focuses on the flow, structure and articulation of sentences and language, with careful attention to maintaining your style and tone. This process is sophisticated. We repair writing missteps while retaining the tenor of what you are conveying: maintaining your voice, and unique writing style.

The line edit ensures that your argumentation follows a logical pattern. It considers the relationship between word choice and meaning. And examines how sentences fit in relation to each other in greater depth than the copy edit. Every sentence is examined to ensure that you are effectively articulating your point. This is critical in all forms of communication, particularly scholarship and research.

Unique to our services is comprehensive developmental editing that blends the professional expertise of coaching with the technical attention to detail found in line editing. There are two structures to accommodate multiple editing needs. Typically the developmental edit paper is fully written, but with a need for substantive revision, prior to defense or final review submission.

The process of developmental content review is highly consultative and focused on the total readability of your paper. We thoroughly evaluate the draft, taking a broad approach to helping you intellectualize the writing. Developmental editing addresses ambiguity and potentially confusing positions, gaps in the writing, as well as focus and organization.

We harness our content expertise to examine the clarity of your research development, argumentation and articulation, offering substantive editing that may include larger scale modifications to sections or chapters.

Our developmental edit structure is customized in two ways. The first is a single comprehensive developmental read with substantive feedback and direction, followed by a full edit. The second option allows for adding developmental time for multiple revisions at a discounted rate.