By a former student, for students, at student prices.
About the service...
My aim is to take the stress out of academia by providing the services every student needs such as:
Getting academic writing correct is really important, and it's about more than just spelling and grammar. I also check that your style is appropriate, and that your references and bibliography are formatted correctly. It's important that every essay is your best possible piece of work - don't just save professional editing for the dissertation, which will never be worth more than 25% of your final grade (and in many disciplines, worth less than 10%), use it for any and every essay which you think could use some improvement.
Most proofreading services are aimed at companies and professionals where the cost isn't an object, however, for the majority of students, these services are far too expensive. Therefore, I have worked really hard to make sure that students can afford to have as much work edited as they need, whilst staying within their budgets.
For a full list of my services, click the relevant tab, (mobile users press the 'menu' button at the top of the page).
If there's anything you'd like done which I don't have listed, then just drop me an email using the contact form, or directly at lizmarsden@hotmail.co.uk and I'll see what I can do.
- Essay Copy Editing and Proofreading
- Recorded Data Transcription (tailored to your needs)
- File Conversions
- Typing up Handwritten Notes and Essays
Getting academic writing correct is really important, and it's about more than just spelling and grammar. I also check that your style is appropriate, and that your references and bibliography are formatted correctly. It's important that every essay is your best possible piece of work - don't just save professional editing for the dissertation, which will never be worth more than 25% of your final grade (and in many disciplines, worth less than 10%), use it for any and every essay which you think could use some improvement.
- Remember: every professional author gets proofread for a reason.
- Tutors don't enjoy mistakes! They want to focus on your work's content, not on grammatical errors.
Most proofreading services are aimed at companies and professionals where the cost isn't an object, however, for the majority of students, these services are far too expensive. Therefore, I have worked really hard to make sure that students can afford to have as much work edited as they need, whilst staying within their budgets.
For a full list of my services, click the relevant tab, (mobile users press the 'menu' button at the top of the page).
If there's anything you'd like done which I don't have listed, then just drop me an email using the contact form, or directly at lizmarsden@hotmail.co.uk and I'll see what I can do.
My Proofreading Mission Statement
I am very aware that anyone who has written a thesis, a dissertation, or a journal article has worked long and hard on their work (doubly so if they are a non-native speaker of English) and therefore is very attached to it. I also know that deep down everyone wants me to say “your work is perfect and has no errors”. Unfortunately, this is never the case and I inevitably have to correct something. Therefore I do not want this process of correction to feel like a ‘hack-and-slash’; I don’t want to butcher people’s work; I want to nurture it. I don’t want people to get their work back and think “this doesn’t sound like me, I didn’t write this”, I want them to think “this is my work, but even better”. Therefore I work very hard to keep the work in the original style of the writer. I try not to replace words just on my personal judgement of ‘how I would have written it’ but only where the word will correct/improve the piece (unless I have been specifically told by a client “I feel I use the same word too often; can you make my writing less repetitive?”). If I can make a sentence better simply by rearranging the components rather than adding/deleting words, then I will. Likewise, if my client likes to use long, complex sentences I won’t split them up into smaller sentences unless they are so long and complex they impair the reader’s comprehension, and ditto those who use many short sentences; I won’t join them together unless the stop-start nature is impairing the reader’s understanding of the wider point.
Ultimately, there are two people I want to please with any given piece: The original writer and the ultimate reader(s). Therefore I aim to keep the work as true as possible to the original whilst improving its accessibility so it can get as wide an audience as possible.
Ultimately, there are two people I want to please with any given piece: The original writer and the ultimate reader(s). Therefore I aim to keep the work as true as possible to the original whilst improving its accessibility so it can get as wide an audience as possible.
