We apply close and detailed attention to your writing.
Line Editing and Copyediting Services
We can help with line editing and copyediting scholarly publications, dissertations, and art institution content such as exhibition catalogs and museum brochures.
Line editing involves more substantive editing on the text itself, at the chapter, section and paragraph levels—checking for things like flow, consistency of voice, style, redundancy, and readability—to name a few. Line editing usually comes before copy editing and doesn’t involve checking for errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. Copyediting makes sure that the text adheres to the publishing press’s style sheet and checks for correct punctuation, grammar, spelling, syntax and formatting. We are proficient with the following style guides: Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, and APA.
Fee Structure
Line editing
Academic (student): $50 per hour
Academic (student): $10 per page
Academic (faculty/other): $70 per hour
Academic (faculty/other): $14 per page
Copyediting
Academic (student): $45 per hour
Academic (student): $9 per page
Academic (faculty/other): $60 per hour
Academic (faculty/other): $12 per page
We will complete a careful read of your entire manuscript and provide you line-by-line edits or detailed copy editing. Upon completion of the editing process, we will return the manuscript to you, and schedule a thirty-minute follow up Zoom meeting to discuss your writing project.
Turnaround for journal articles and edited volume chapters is two weeks; book manuscripts take 30-45 days. Depending on the length of the writing project and after discussion with you, we charge either hourly rates or per page fees.
If You Are Unsure . . .
When looking for an editor, you should always make sure that whoever you hire is a good fit for you specifically. All of our services come with an initial 30-minute free consultation. You can decide on whether any of our services are a good match for you and your needs, before making any kind of commitment.