English Editing

Our English editing service clarifies and improves your writing without changing your meaning. We make small, sentence-level edits to sharpen the language and fix errors. We also improve the clarity of your arguments to maximize impact. English editing is best for polishing up research manuscripts, proposals, statements, or any document that needs to read well and be free from errors.
 

Our editing service includes:

  • Language editing by two highly qualified editors with experience in your field

  • Grammar, spelling, and punctuation correction

  • Natural syntax and flow for smooth, easy reading

  • Concise phrasing

  • Consistency in formatting, acronyms, and other areas

  • Personal contact with your assigned editor to address any questions or clarifications

  • Suggestions or tips by your editor for ways to eliminate redundancy or improve clarity (if relevant)

  • If requested, suggestions for how to meet your journal’s submission guidelines

  • Upon request, a form stating that the paper has been carefully edited by a native English speaker

  • For reference services, please call or contact us

Before

After

Pricing (4-day turnaround)

Word count examples Price
2,001 - 3,000 $200.00
4,001 - 5,000 $280.00
7,001 - 8,000 $390.00

Finished product

Your edited paper will be highly readable and error-free. The arguments and information in the text will be clearly stated and easy to understand. We also maintain your tone and writing voice. Overall, the language of your work will be completely polished and ready for submission to a publisher, journal, or committee.

YOUR WORK IS PROTECTED BY OUR QUALITY GUARANTEE

We stand by our work. If a reviewer mentions English language issues, we will edit the paper again for free. We pledge to work with you until you are completely satisfied.

We also pledge to:

  • Make no claims on the paper's authorship

  • Take the utmost care in ensuring that your paper is kept secure and private

  • Leave no other marks on the paper (other than the edits and comments themselves) indicating that it has undergone editing

We do not:

  • Guarantee that a paper will be published

  • Change your intended meaning

  • Reorder or rearrange paragraphs or major elements

  • Adjust or rearrange images

Optional add-ons for english editing

  • 24-hour turnaround ($20-80, depending on manuscript length)

  • Unlimited re-edits ($160)

    • This service covers all revisions that may be necessary after our edits, such as text that the author may have added to satisfy reviewer comments. It also includes any editing needed to respond to reviewers.

  • Manuscript formatting ($130)

  • Journal recommendations ($150)


Copy editing

Copy editing is a deep edit that corrects errors, enhances readability, improves phrasing and clarity, and can apply a consistent style as specified by the customer. It includes English editing and goes a bit deeper by reworking each sentence as necessary to achieve maximum readability. Copy editing also includes rearranging small items if necessary, correcting and commenting on organization, and ensuring that the text is highly readable and ready for publication without further editing. Copy editing does not usually include heavy rewriting, formatting, or thorough fact checking; however, we are happy to provide these upon request for an additional fee, to be agreed upon ahead of the order.

This type of editing is good for a variety of texts. It is primarily intended for documents that will not undergo further editing before publication and will be distributed to either the general public or a specialist audience, such as corporate documents, promotional material, website content, reports, and academic books or book chapters. It is also appropriate for research manuscripts that need a heavier edit that includes reorganization.

Copy editing sample.docx

Price: $.089/word. Please contact us for orders longer than 15,000 words.


Developmental editing

Developmental editing helps you improve all aspects of scientific presentation in your paper. Your paper is carefully reviewed by two editors who are selected for their knowledge of your field. These editors will make edits to and provide advice on your presentation of:

  • The main question and hypothesis

  • Study rationale

  • Context and impact

  • Logical thought progression and argument flow

  • Methods and conclusions

  • Figures and tables

  • Concision and overall length

Developmental Editing Sample.docx

This service includes an English edit, a developmental edit, and a quality edit by a managing editor. With the scientific report, it also includes journal submission advice. Developmental editing orders are returned on a 14-day timeline.

The goals of the service include (but are not limited to):

  • Simplifying and clarifying any complicated hypotheses or questions

  • Ensuring that the paper appropriately situates its work within the context of its field

  • Fully elucidating the impacts of the research performed

  • Ensuring that the paper flows logically and that arguments are well supported

  • Clarifying methods and procedures, and ensuring that all conclusions are relevant and appropriate

  • Giving advice on producing clearer or more professional figures and tables

  • Ensuring concision and appropriate length through edits and comments

After a developmental edit, we are happy to take a second look at a few pages, free of charge. If you think that you may make significant changes after our edits, consider the unlimited re-edits service available at checkout.

Developmental editing Pricing

Word count (excluding references) Price
< 2,001 $510.00
2,001 - 3,000 $670.00
3,001 - 4,000 $830.00
4,001 - 5,000 $990.00
5,001 - 6,000 $1,150.00
6,001 - 7,000 $1,310.00
7,001 - 8,000 $1,470.00
8,001 - 9,000 $1,630.00
9,001 - 10,000 $1,790.00
 

  • Add a third reviewer: add $280-760 depending on manuscript length

  • 5-day turnaround: add $200-400 depending on manuscript length. Typical turnaround is 10 days.

If your document is longer than 12,000 words, please contact us for an estimate and turnaround time.


Manuscript formatting

Our manuscript formatting service helps bring manuscripts and references in line with a target journal’s guidelines. We can also apply another formatting style as specified, such as AMA, APA, etc. We correct all items possible and will leave comments for any remaining items that require attention by the author. Performed on a 4-day timeline. Does not include cutting for length or content, or reformatting of images or figures (this service is described on our Figures Services page.

Price: $130 for most documents up to 12,000 words; hourly for longer documents and other custom formatting work.


Journal recommendations

We offer journal recommendation services to help authors narrow their search for the right journal for their paper. These reports include 3 recommendations as well as information related to:

  • The journal’s scope and impact factor

  • Similar articles that the journal may have published

  • A short description of how many changes will be needed before the manuscript fits the journal’s recommendations

  • Rationale for each journal included in the report

Price: $150

Performed on a 4-day timeline.


HIGH-QUALITY EDITING BY OUR TEAM OF
EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS

Highly qualified editors

academic editors

Our office employs some of the best editors in the business. Each of our editors:

  • Has proofread more than 1,000 manuscripts

  • Is a native English speaker

  • Has a masters, MD, or Ph.D from an American or British university

  • Has published research of their own


Testimonials

communications researcher
Editing quality is very important to me. I regularly submit to high-impact journals, and the language of my manuscripts must be perfect. MJE provides me with quality and fast editing that helps me get published.
— Jorge Soberon, University Distinguished Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
MJE demonstrates both a high level of editing skill and knowledge of my field of study. They make sure that my writing is clear, concise, and that it maintains an intelligent and professional tone. Their genuine concern for the quality of work - both theirs and mine - makes them an exceptional service.
— Dr. G. Peter Gliebus, Director, Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Neurology Center at Capital Health System
 
medical researcher

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