From Draft to Publication Professional Academic Writing Support
You've spent years perfecting your research. Now you need to ensure it makes the best impression. Whether you're preparing your first journal submission, refining your dissertation, or crafting a grant proposal that could fund your next breakthrough, professional editing and coaching can make the difference between acceptance and rejection.
Services
Academic Editing & Publishing
Getting started
When you're not sure where or how to begin, or stuck in analysis paralysis. "Tough love" hand-holding to help you get going and find your groove.
Feedback help
Not sure what your advisor, committee, or reviewers actually want? I can help you make sense of comments and suggestions so you know how to make it better.
Focused finish
Been working on your dissertation for too long and just need to be DONE? Let me help you organize and focus what you have to get over the PHinish line.
Final formatting & polish
Ensuring that headings, margins, page numbers, and citations are properly formatted according to guidelines.
Adapting a piece
Want to turn a piece of writing into something else? Adapt a manuscript for a new audience or a different journal.
Just the basics
You're great; it's ready to go, but you can't "see" it any more and need to make sure it flows, makes sense, and looks good.
MY MISSION
Make you look good
And I can do that best when I get to know you. I'm really a relationship person.
I love getting to know my clients and working on either a long-term, bigger project, or over the course of multiple pieces of writing.
By cultivating a writing partnership, we can create the best and most brilliant work for you. Because I have an academic background myself and have worked with all kinds of writers in all kinds of disciplines, I can meet you where you are.
More than just "fixing the typos," I want to help you create a communication that achieves the goals you're aiming for and then some.
projects
The kinds of work I've done
Worked closely with a dissertation writer to rearrange, organize, and rewrite parts of their dissertation to conform to standards, committee and advisor feedback. We worked together to make sure the piece reflected the research that they had already done and communicated the conclusions they had come to in the format outlined by their committee and college.
PhD candidate
Education professional
Polished their completed dissertation, finding typos, unclear phrases/sentences, ensuring citations were complete and correct to APA standards, along with final formatting (page numbers, breaks, etc) to college requirements. Included PDF and accessibility report for submission to ETD.
PhD candidate
Educational Foundations
Reorganized an academic journal manuscript in Education to reflect feedback from reviewers and word count, along with formatting.
University faculty member
Academic journal
Cut and reorganized a revised but ultimately rejected journal manuscript for another outlet. We tweaked the focus without letting all that work go to waste.
Academic author
University faculty
Ready to have an impact with your writing?
Your research has the potential to change your field. Let's make sure your writing does it justice.