What you get under Our Manuscript Editing

Your manuscript undergoes our two levels of editing processes reviewed by our team of expert editors to ensure consistency of quality, using the following English language and formatting checkpoints:

  • Line by line editing of your manuscript to improve clarity and flow while maintaining your authorial voice, giving you a stronger, much improved manuscript
  • Corrections of spelling, grammar, and typos
  • Tracked revisions so that you can see and review all the changes, giving you complete creative control
  • Suggestions to improve style, tone, word choice, and sentence structure
  • Extensive critical commentary
  • Identification of weak points and other issues that can be improved
  • A short summary of the work that has been done and any major concerns
Substantive Editing Copy Editing
Checkpoints
Language & Grammar-Check

  • Language Check
    Sentence construction, English word choice, clarity, parallel structure, tone, voice, redundancy
  • Grammar Check
    Subject-verb agreement, article usage, spellings, tense, prepositions, pronouns and determiners, adverbs and adjectives, relative clauses
  • Punctuation Check
    Comma, colon/semicolon, dashes, quotation marks, apostrophe
  Yes!  Yes!
Style and Consistency

  • Writing Style Check
    Capitalization, hyphenation, headings, numbering style, abbreviations, American/British English
  • References Check
    Consistent citation style, consistent end-list reference style, cross-referencing between main text and end list
  • Figures and Tables
    Data consistency, cross-referencing between text and figures/tables
  Yes!  Yes!
Technical Accuracy

  • Technical word choice
  • Subject-specific nomenclature
  • Appropriate units of measurement, symbols, and variables
  Yes!  Yes!
Manuscript Formatting

  • Guidelines and instructions
  • Writing style guides
   Yes!   Yes!
Logical Flow

  • Rearrangement, expansion, or summarizing of sections
  • Ensuring logical flow between sentences and paragraphs
  • Cross-checking appropriateness and presence of sections
   Yes!   Yes!
Presentation

  • Content accurately reflects title and heading
  • Appropriate weightage to sections – checking if abstracts cover all essential points
  • Clarity and coherence
   Yes!   Yes!
Content Enhancement

  • Checking if presentation is simple and effective
  • Eliminating content repetition and redundancy
  • Verifying gaps and improving the content
  • Ensuring clear unambiguous statements
   Yes!   Yes!
Our goal is to deliver the highest quality professional editing services to help get your manuscripts polished to international standards.

*Note: All checks relate to English grammar and language only.

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