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Theses and dissertations are the pinnacle of a student’s research output to date. Our editors approach thesis and dissertation editing as though it were their own work, drawing on their postgraduate experience and editorial skills to hone your expression without changing its meaning.
Experienced Native English Editors
Our editors are all native English speakers, educated mainly to the postgraduate level at top-ranking research universities. They draw on their own postgraduate experience to ensure that the quality of your thesis or dissertation passes the scrutiny of supervisors and examiners.
Subject Specialist + Language Editor
Your thesis or dissertation is reviewed by a subject specialist to ensure compliance with the stylistic, result-reporting and referencing conventions of your field, followed by a language specialist who focuses on general linguistic and stylistic issues to enhance the overall readability.
Special Discount for Students
All postgraduate students who commission us to edit their thesis or dissertation are entitled to a special discount of up to 20%, depending on word count.
Editing Scope
We edit papers from all fields, with the quality of our work having earned us respect across academia. Our editing improves documents in a number of areas:
Usage and Grammar
Complying with general usage and grammar conventions
Spelling & Punctuation
Ensuring correct spelling and appropriate punctuation to clarify your meaning
Standardisation of Terms
Checking for consistent use of key terminology
Writing Style
Improving the ways you combine usage, sentence elements and sentence groups
Fluency
Enhancing the ways you link associated data, findings and ideas
Structure
Refining the overall organisation of paragraphs and sections, where necessary
Extra Services
Formatting
We are happy to conform to any of the various formatting requirements for our clients. Adhering to the APA or Chicago Manual of Style requires 20% additional time (and an equivalent surcharge), while adhering to specific journal guides requires 30% additional time (thus an equivalent surcharge).
Editor Report
The Editor’s Report is available for a flat fee for those who would like to improve their writing. This report outlines the key grammatical and stylistic areas of your writing that would benefit from improvement in future.
Editing Certificate
Provided free-of-charge when requested, you can use the Editing Certificate to prove that your document has been edited by a professional English language editing service.
File Types
We can edit in all file types, including Word, LaTex and PDF. However, editing is much more efficient if we can use a Word or LaTex file. This allows us to edit electronically, rather than by hand. If we work with a PDF, then we must print the document and hand write the edits, making it much more difficult for you to incorporate the changes.
If you have the LaTex (.tex) file, we can open that in Word and edit it using the “Track Changes” function. We will be careful not to touch any of the LaTex code, meaning that you can copy the finalised document back into your LaTex editor.
Of course, if you would prefer not to send the Word or LaTex file, we can work on the printed PDF instead.
Post-grad Student Discounts & Loyalty Schemes
We offer student discounts for editing post-grad theses and dissertations.
We are also open to discussing discounts based on contracted volumes or sole editor arrangements for departments, faculties, research centres and administrative units.
Full-time Students
10,001 – 30,000 words – 10% off
30,001 – 60,000 words – 15% off
60,001 or more words – 20% off
Part-time Students
10,001 – 30,000 words – 5% off
30,001 – 60,000 words – 10% off
60,001 – 100,000 words – 15% off
100,001 or more words – 20% off
Loyalty Coupons & Referral
Loyalty coupon
Upon invoice payment you will be issued a loyalty coupon (worth 5% of the paid invoice), valid for 3 months against future invoices.
Referral
Refer and earn a 10% discount off your next job with us.
Client Feedback
Professional Engineering Student, City University of Hong Kong
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Nursing Student, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Theses are the first sustained introduction to formal writing for many aspiring academics and bring with them numerous problems of expression for ...
Division of Social Science, HKUST
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