Monday, June 3, 2019

A Guide To Hiring Professional Academic Editing Services

By Virginia Murray


Errors in academic papers will affect your performance and could extend to graduation. Your performance also affects your career prospects, leading to unwarranted long term losses. Education experts advise students to hire professional academic editing services. However, it would be risky to pick anyone to edit your paper. What should you look for when hiring an editor?

Determine the type and qualifications of the editor you need for the project. This will depend on your topic, level of study and the kind of editing required on the paper, among such other unique factors. For example, a mathematics paper requires different skills or training to edit compared to physics or biology. The editor required for a PhD paper will also be different from one handling a college paper. You need skills that are commensurate to the standards of your project.

The editor hired must be a professionally trained editor. Training equips editors with skills to understand language, choice of words, formatting styles and other technical issues only known to editors. Training therefore guarantees quality work.

Training in an area related to your topic boosts the quality of your work delivered. The best editor has mastered more than language. This calls for understanding of the technical elements of your topic. It means that the editor will know when ideas are misrepresented and correct them. Your paper will also be formatted accurately according to guidelines in your discipline.

Will you hire freelancers or the paper will be handled by a bureau? There are unique benefits of engaging editors on either of the two platforms. It is cheaper to work with freelancers because you do not have deal with complex structures that involve company policies, editors and subeditors, among other personnel. On the other hand, they might be unreliable if they fall sick or have an emergency in the course of your work. A bureau has established structures with several layers of editors that guarantee quality. It is such complex structures that make their work more expensive than hiring freelancers.

Is the editor available to deliver the work on time? Most students edit their work towards the submission deadline. You need a professional editor who helps you to meet the deadline through commitment and a reasonable working speed.

Charges are a concern for all students. The determinant of charges is the amount of work to be done on the paper, your topic and urgency to submit the paper, among others. Get quotations from several editors to help you choose the most reasonable package. It will be a huge mistake to compromise quality in search of lower prices. It affects your performance and career prospects.

Hire an editor who guarantees quality work. Quality is guarantee by possession of appropriate tools and skills. Experience as an editor will also give you an assurance of quality. Read reviews to know the reputation of your target editor and whether he or she will meet your expectations.

Take the shortcut of getting a referral of editors from friends, colleagues, seniors and people in your circles. People around you will only refer that editor who they have worked with in the past and gotten quality work. They have tested the work done by such an editor and ascertained that it is quality. This saves you the trouble of working with amateurs and strangers whose performance is unknown.

Your performance in the paper will depend on skills of the editor you hire. Search early to have sufficient time to verify his or her credentials. Stick to professionals who can deliver quality work.




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