Please compare my service and price with the large well-known editing companies, and I believe you will see that I strive to offer a more personal, agile, meticulous, inexpensive, trustworthy, and responsive service. This is what customers say in their testimonials, and this is what has kept loyal customers coming back to my service for many years now. If you want to compare my prices with other editing services, please send me copy of their official quotes and I will try to match or provide a lower price.

PRICE FOR EDITING
For one-time editing jobs such as editing a scientific journal article, PhD dissertation, academic monograph or grant application, I charge $50 per hour for copyediting. The final price will vary depending on whether you need a medium or heavy copyedit. See my Editing Checklist for more details on what these two types of edits include. The cost for a medium copyedit (language and mechanical editing) of an average scientific journal article (≈5,000 words) takes between 4 to 6 hours ($200 to $300). Some articles take more time, some take less, but most (95%) fall into this range. For new customers, I ask that you pay a down payment before I start the work.

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A heavy copyedit includes language and mechanical editing, as well as a more systematic review of the items listed below. The cost for a heavy copyedit varies depending on the items you select from the Editing Checklist. I can send you an estimate for a heavy copyedit based on whether you chose one or all of the items below. 

 

• Check references

• Correlate parts of the manuscript (abstract, introduction, methods results, discussion) for internal consistency

• Fact-check, including verifying that numerical data cited in the text is consistent with the findings cited in the original source material. 

• Align manuscript with the guidelines for authors page of the journal you are targeting.

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For longer manuscripts, such as books, dissertations, and grant applications, please use the information mentioned above to estimate the cost or send me your manuscript for a more specific assessment and estimate. The final price for a job typically reflects the number of revisions and corrections I make, which affects the final total time and cost. In other words, the more revisions I need to make, the higher the final price. I typically read all manuscripts twice.
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For longer texts such as dissertations, books, and grant applications, I divide the work into sections of 3-5 hours each, and after I send my revisions for one section, I ask that you pay for that section before I start the next one. If you are a new customer and unsure about whether you want to commit to having me edit your book, dissertation, or grant proposal, consider purchasing a one-hour editing sample for $50. This will give you an idea of the work I do and whether you want to continue working with me. I would send you an invoice from PayPal for this work.
 

Generally, I can accommodate last-minute urgent deadlines, but on rare occasions, if your deadline causes me to rearrange my work schedule or work beyond my normal work hours, including working late at night, on weekends, holidays, and vacation time, if I am available, I may need to charge an additional $15/hour. So it helps if you can send papers two weeks in advance of your deadline when possible to avoid this scenario. For more details, please click on the following list of my holidays and vacation time: US holidays and vacation times. 

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For long-term contractual work, please contact me so we can discuss your needs and a contract.

If you revise my paper and the journal requests changes to the paper, do you charge for another round of editing? 

Yes, I charge for an additional round of editing when a journal requests the authors to modify and improve a paper they submitted. Because the journal referees asked you to modify your manuscript by rewriting, supplementing, or deleting text, I consider this a new job. Yet the cost will be a fraction of the original revision since most of the issues will have been corrected in the initial reading, and often changes requested by the journal involve just adding and improving a few sentences or paragraphs. It is helpful in such cases if you highlight the text that has been modified. I will focus on these highlighted parts, and also do one more reading of the entire manuscript just to catch any minor issues that may still remain in the manuscript.
 
MAKING A PAYMENT
For customers in the United States, I can accept a check or other payment arrangements. For international clients, I use PayPal.com, which is private, safe and secure transaction at the PayPal site. I can customize invoices to include the names of funding agencies, grant numbers, author institution affiliation, etc. I ask that you make payments within two weeks of receiving your revised papers. 
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To get a free quote for an editing job or to ask any questions you may still have, please contact me at this email address:
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   jim@AcademicEnglishSolutions.com