Academic and nonfiction editing
Professional editing can save you time, worry, and costly mistakes in the pursuit of your academic and business goals.
Mistakes get noticed. Even small errors can cause readers to doubt the care you take in your research –– and doubt your results. They can make or break a grant application. They can lead clients and reviewers to question your credibility.
Readability, too, is essential. Its hard to know what your audience doesn’t know, and how your communications will land with non-experts. Making research accesssible is an important skill, but it’s not a skill every scholar has, or has the time to develop.
That’s where your editor comes in. Professional editors are trained to find errors, improve accessibility, ensure guidelines are followed. True, editors are not perfect — but we can get awfully close.
South Line Editing will help you reach your goals, whether that’s getting published in an academic journal, winning funds through a grant, or sharing your skills and knowledge with collleagues, customers, or trainees. We’ll ensure your academic, trade, or technical output as is accurate, clear, and accessible as possible.
(Did you spot the four errors in this section? If you did, good for you! MS Word’s editor only found three!)
Our editing services include
- Structural editing
- Line editing
- Copy editing
- Proofreading
- Specialty: academic grants and proposals
We can guide your manuscript from first draft through to a finished work ready for submission or publication.
Each stage calls for different interventions, and we often work with authors through several levels of editing. Ideally the author will have time to absorb — and accept or reject — the editor’s suggestions. But when there’s only time for one or two passes, we can combine some aspects and prioritize changes as needed.