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Price

As a guide, the base cost is

Euros: 39 per 1,000 words

for detailed structural, style, and copyediting.
This ensures naturalness, clarity, comprehensibility, completeness, scientific validity, suitability for the intended audience, and compliance with the publisher's style guide. References can also be validated. Deadlines are by agreement.
Discounts are available for returning clients.
For legal reasons, invoices are in euros, but payments can be made in most major currencies, including

Conversions are illustrative, exclude exchange fees, and will vary with prevailing exchange rates. Payments can be made by bank transfer; if this is not possible, credit card payments can be arranged through PayPal, subject to a 4.9% surcharge.

About Me

I have been an editor since 2010, including three years at a securities company in Asia and eight years freelancing with Scribendi, the world's largest editing company. Before that, I was a teacher, tutor, college instructor, psychotherapist, and computer programmer.


In addition to my qualifications, I have studied history, economics, and forensics. I am also an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading.


About Editing

You have worked hard to become an expert in your field. However, to communicate with your peers worldwide, you must write in English, which may not be your first language. You may worry you will not be taken seriously if your English is not ‘perfect’. You may worry you will be misunderstood.


I can make your writing natural and clear and ensure it means what you intended. I will make sure your work is complete and that your readers understand your thoughts. Together, we can make the English language a vehicle to communicate your ideas, not a barrier.


About AI

Large-language models are designed to generate plausible, intelligent-sounding text. They are not designed to be truthful. They invent references, fabricate web links, and simply lie to meet their goal of sounding good.


AI editors do not know or care if they change the meaning of what you write. They only care that it sounds convincing. An experienced, educated editor will avoid these traps by understanding what you want to say and ensuring it is both clear and correct in a way that AI simply cannot.


Read 'The Fabrication Problem', medium.com

Services

Scientific

Scientific writing has a style that is unique. Its goal is to present information as clearly as possible, remaining neutral and allowing the facts to be persuasive rather than the writing. Clarity and unambiguity are therefore the highest priorities.

Academic

I have fifteen years of experience in editing academic papers, dissertations, grant proposals, and even freshman student essays. As a former college lecturer and secondary school teacher, I know what makes a paper read well and how to make your ideas shine.

Research

It is not enough to say what your research has found. You must do so in a way that students will understand, experts will trust, and peer reviewers will accept. You must also write with precision: your methods must be replicable and your results correct to the last digit.

Business

From the annual report of a publicly traded bank to a marketing email for a small-town dentist, every written contact with the world is a chance for a business to make an impression. I have spent more than a decade ensuring those impressions are good ones.

Personal

Clarity can be critical when you are trying to make yourself heard - from answering a letter from the tax office to marketing yourself in your personal blog. You should be able to feel confident you have been understood, no matter how long you have been speaking English.

AI

 Large languages models have a distinct writing style: bland, shallow, and rambling. They also cannot be trusted to be truthful. Nevertheless, AI writing and translations can be rescued with the distinct touch of a human editor who not only understands how humans write but also what they know.

Testimonials

You are simply amazing!

I appreciated all of the thoughtful comments and insight. I really learned a great deal from your critique of my work. Thank you for not only helping me to be a better writer but also a better researcher. Top-notch editing!!!! You exceeded my expectations in every way! Thank you! Thank you!!!!

I am a journal editor...

...and was confronted with a very badly written piece with no time to edit it. Thanks to your work, I could focus on the edited version and finalize it in record time. I truly appreciate the collaboration and wish to  congratulate you.

Thank you so much...

...for your careful reading and (sometimes humorous) comments on my text. Your work and revisions were very helpful for my submission and, as always, for my writing in general. 

Your editing skill is fantastic.

You made me feel significantly less stressful about my application. Thank you so much for your effort.


We are again impressed...

...by the improvements you have made to our

article. We also thank you for your valuable explanations of some of the changes made to the text, which will also be useful in the future. Thank you!

I'm thrilled!

You did excellent work. Many thanks for your efforts and fascinating work.

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