EDITING SAMPLES
Dissertation – BEFORE
Editing & formatting a PhD dissertation. This researcher had several completed journal articles (including the one shown above), and they were looking to combine their papers into a fully formatted dissertation, following the university’s guidelines.
Dissertation – AFTEr
This is the corresponding chapter of that completed dissertation. This dissertation was 264 pages in total; editing work included paragraph and line spacing, headings, margins, page numbers, table of contents, references, and formatting figures and tables, in addition to proofreading.
Total price: $1200
Dissertation Proposal – BEFORE
Editing & formatting a PhD dissertation proposal. This researcher had written a three-chapter proposal for their dissertation subject (including the intro chapter shown above). The writing needed proofreading and editing for grammar, as well as formatting to follow the university’s dissertation guidelines.
Dissertation proposal – AFTEr
This is the corresponding section of that completed dissertation proposal. The proposal was 40 pages in total; editing work included table of contents, page numbers, references, and formatting figures, in addition to editing & proofreading.
Total price: $300
Grant Proposal – BEFORE
Editing a PhD candidate's grant proposal. This researcher had a completed, formatted grant proposal with preliminary data, figures, and all experiments planned out; the writing just needed some work. Only the specific aims page is shown above, as we cannot share their unpublished work.
Grant proposal – AFTEr
This is the corresponding page after edits. Editing work involved only grammar, word choice, and sentence structure. This grant proposal was 11 pages in total, but much of that was figures; no formatting of the document or figures was needed.
Total price: $150
Personal statement
Editing an undergraduate’s personal statement for their dental school application. This project falls more under the category of proofreading, as all the student asked was to correct any errors. Therefore, the edits are mostly grammatical, with some suggestions for different word choices or sentence rewrites.
Total price: $20
Letter of recommendation
One of our regular clients is a university professor whose first language is not English; we edit the letters of recommendation they write for their students to correct any grammatical errors or awkward wording, and to make the overall tone more eloquent and impressive.
Total price: $30
Jessie’s writing samples
journal article
Factors impacting the regulation of nos gene expression in Staphylococccus aureus
Microbiology Spectrum
2023
TEXTBOOK CHAPTER
Evaluation of Staphylococcus aureus antibiotic tolerance using kill curve assays
Methods in Molecular Biology book series
2021