Academic editing and proofreading

Correction of all grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes

Grammatical and typographical errors can greatly harm your research work’s credibility. Our eagle-eyed proofreading ensures that your paper is free of all such mistakes. We care where the comma and period marks go at the end of quotations, and our attention to punctuation ensures that the en/em dashes and colons are used correctly.

Refinement of usage and syntax

Following rules of syntax becomes challenging when you’re in the flow of writing. Our attention to detail ensures that your paper is free of all usage errors, and that maximum readability is achieved by rectifying sentence fragments and non-parallel sentence constructions.

Checking of all technical terms

We ensure that all your technical terms are correctly and consistently spelled, capitalized, hyphenated, and formatted. Details like spacing between units, symbols, and operators and consistent usage of periods after characters are carefully attended to.

Consistent use of abbreviations

We make sure that all abbreviations are expanded at the first instance and used consistently thereafter.

Implementation of internal consistency

Our services ensure that your paper has flawless internal consistency – right from small details like UK/US spelling regulations and usage of straight/curly quotation marks to consistently formatted headings, paragraph spacing, and indentations.

Word-level enhancement: Technical vocabulary and academic language

What sets academic writing apart from all other kinds of writing is the presence of technical jargons and the idiosyncratic language of the academia. We take meticulous care that your paper meets the highest standards in terms of academic language, style, and tone, with every weak choice of wording and phrasing improved for a more scholarly one.

Sentence-level enhancement: Improvement of logic, flow, and clarity (including appropriate use of transitional phrasing and discourse markers)

Academic documents often suffer from ambiguous expression of ideas, unclear sentence constructions, and unnecessary verbosity. Our editors work hard to improve the logic, flow, and clarity of your ideas one sentence at a time. We are skilled at clarifying and strengthening your arguments by employing a wide array of editing techniques, without interfering with the core content in any way.

Paragraph-level enhancement: Refinement of paragraph organization and structure

Our editors, who are sensitive to the importance of argument and analysis, ensure that your paragraphs are organized and structured in a way that promotes maximum readability and cohesion. This includes ensuring that the topic, supporting, and concluding sentences are in place, and that your ideas and arguments flow seamlessly from one paragraph to the next. To achieve this, we offer restructuring suggestions and elicit missing information from writers wherever necessary. All logical errors and inconsistencies in your argument are pointed out with remedial inputs, and we identify for you those points or ideas that require additional supporting statements.

Document-level enhancement: Ensuring that your work adheres to the structure of an ideal research paper

Our trained academic editors have the map of an ideal research paper imprinted in their minds. This enables us to check if all necessary sections of your paper are present and logically structured. In addition, we also ensure the following:
• The abstract is concise and includes all expected points and keywords
• The introduction provides an informative background to the research topic, highlighting where your research problem/thesis statement comes in
• The literature review addresses the gap in the existing pool of knowledge and how your work seeks to fill these gaps
• The research problems and objectives are clearly stated and developed in the main body
• The chosen research methodology is explained clearly
• The discussion/results section shows how the research objectives have been met
• The conclusion elucidates how your work contributes to the existing pool of knowledge, indicating both limitations and scope for future research

Word reduction, if necessary

It is only common to overshoot word limits when engrossed in translating your research efforts into words. Our editors have some nifty word reduction tricks up their sleeves and are trained at removing repetitions. Additionally, if required, we can also highlight for you the lesser important parts of your paper that can be removed to achieve the desired brevity.

Extensive rewording, if necessary

Even the best of research papers can fall flat in certain sections, diluting the final impact of your work. While editing, we will be sure to point out these lesser flattering parts of your work to you and reword them to perfection.

Complete, consistent, and accurate in-text citations as per your journal’s guidelines

We will ensure that the titles of larger sources and shorter works are cited as per your target journal’s guidelines. We will also point out for you all missing in-text references or those ideas of yours that could improve in terms of academic validity if citations to pre-existing research works are made.

Formatted bibliography, accurately generated as per your journal’s guidelines

Our editors have in-depth knowledge of several referencing guidelines such as the APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, IEEE, to name a few. We also take care of small details such as the alphabetical arrangement of your reference list and accurate indentation and line spacing.

Cross-checking your in-text references with your reference list

Changing from one referencing system to another if required

Top-to-bottom formatting of your paper as per university submission guidelines

In addition to making your paper’s formatting submission-ready, our editors will also take care of small details like checking the heading numbering and formatting and ensure that the Table of Contents/List of Tables/List of Figures match corresponding entries in the main body. Additionally, your edited document will be consistently formatted in terms of font, emphasization, line/paragraph spacing, and indents.

Formatting of preliminary pages, such as Title page, Table of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables, and List of Abbreviations

Formatting of tables and figures for neatness and consistency

Formatting of appendices for neatness and consistency