Any document consisting of mistakes is of no use; this is why the criteria of editing have came into existence. Editing of thesis, dissertation, grant proposal, course paper, or academic job application is very important element of success for a student’s academic career. It is nearly impossible for a student to edit their own work. Hence, it is always an excellent idea to hire professional editors. We at accuedit.com offer various types of editing and our academic work editing service is up to the mark.
We have editors like Developmental Editors and Comprehensive Copy Editors; they work in close co-ordination with college students, students’ doing their master’s to assist them succeeding with their academic writing projects. Now you can just have a look on what is developmental and comprehensive editing and how our editors will help you.
Developmental editing is a kind of editing which focus on development, and organization of the project. An early stage editing is there in the writing process requiring more than one round to address the issues completely.
The help provided by our developmental editors is related to:
1. Incorporating facts, support, and sources.
2. Identifying gaps in content and suggesting the ways to fill those gaps.
3. Balancing the argument.
4. Providing background and context.
5. Ensuring paragraph unity and progressive expansion.
Whereas, comprehensive copyediting includes editing of line, copyediting, and proofreading. It can take more than one round because of the back and forth process of editing and correcting.
Have a look for what a comprehensive editor can do.
1. Diagnose and give suggestion for formation of sentence, and flow.
2. Helps attending evenness of style, inclination, and voice.
3. Edit for active voice, or passive voice as appropriate.
4. Helps suggesting titles.
5. Helps attending to the academic audience, together with jargon issues.
6. Helps in correcting punctuation and mechanical errors.
7. Helps in formatting the fonts and tables.
8. Helps ensuring alphabetical and numbering sequence accurateness.