GREAT LAKES
EDITING SERVICES
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Academic Editing Services
Rigorous scholarship is a labor of love, one that takes considerable time and energy. At Great Lakes Editing Services, we believe that compelling research should never be overshadowed or obstructed by less than compelling prose or presentation. Whether you're an early career academic wanting to develop your manuscript into a thought-provoking monograph, a university press needing some constructive copy editing for an author, or a project editor looking for indexing services, we're ready to help.
What to Expect with Great Lakes Editing Services
Academic Expertise
At Great Lakes Editing Services, we view ourselves as scholars editing for other scholars. Each of our academic editors possesses a doctorate in their respective academic field and has published their research in monographs or peer-reviewed journal articles with veritable presses. This critical edge enables us to provide a more comprehensive and constructive approach to the argumentation and research of every manuscript that comes our way.
Editorial Experience
One tricky facet of academic publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences is managing all the technical aspects of specialized research, including field-specific abbreviations, source citation methods, and scholarly terminology. No matter how complicated a project may be, our experienced academic editors will ensure that such conventions are followed consistently and correctly according to the current stylistic standards of the relevant academic discipline.
Foreign Language Proficiency
One of our specialties is editing scholarship that engages with foreign languages. Our academic editors possess working knowledge of an array of ancient (e.g., Akkadian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Ge'ez) and modern (e.g., German, French, Italian) languages. Whether a manuscript is assessing the Dead Sea Scrolls, Continental philosophy, or German biblical scholarship, our editors will make sure that every word is spelled correctly and every accent is accounted for.
Technical Precision
Sound and sophisticated academic writing can be grueling even for the most seasoned scholar. At Great Lakes Editing Services, we're passionate about helping authors refine the presentation of their ideas by paying meticulous attention to the grammatical, syntactical, structural, and stylistic aspects of their prose. From paragraph organization and formatting issues to word choice and punctuation, our editors will make sure that your publication is a polished finished product.
Academic Editing Reviews
SENIOR SCHOLAR
BIBLICAL STUDIES
I have expressed appreciation to you consistently for your careful and skillful work, and all I can do at the end of this process is repeat that appreciation again. Your work has been such a gift in its attention to detail, knowledge of the discipline, and respect for accurate and clear style. I know from previous books that such competencies are not to be assumed in copy editing. So it has been a delight to both witness and benefit from your work.
PROJECT EDITOR
ACADEMIC PRESS
Once again, thanks for all the hard work you put into this one. Frankly, I'm not sure we have another editor on staff or freelancer who could have handled standardizing all the ancient source abbreviations or double checking the Greek, Hebrew, and Latin throughout . . . I hope we don't come across a manuscript this complicated for a long while, but if we do I definitely know who to send it to.
JUNIOR SCHOLAR
MODERN HISTORY
Thanks a lot for your help and patience copy editing my book. I've heard a couple colleagues in my department complain more than a few times about how painful a process copy editing was for their first monographs. I'm really glad to say that this was not my experience working with you. Your thoughtful comments really helped improve my overall argument and made this a stronger book.
Standard Services
Substantive and Developmental Editing
Preparing an academic manuscript for peer-reviewed publication can be a lot of work, especially when you're not sure what's the next step you should to take. Sometimes the best remedy is a new perspective on your work. Our Great Lakes Editing Services team can help you critically assess and develop your manuscript with your target audience and professional goals in mind. We'll work through your draft with you in depth, point out areas of strength and weakness, and help you cultivate a persuasive piece of scholarship that accomplishes the objectives you set out to achieve while staying true to your authorial voice. Whether this means thoroughly revising your prose for clarity, restructuring the progression of your argument, or refining your key ideas with more nuance, our editors will provide you with all the tools and resources necessary to make your project a thoughtful piece of scholarship that contributes to your field.
Copy Editing
At Great Lakes Editing Services, we pride ourselves on being some of the most proficient and effective copy editors in our field. For every copy editing project, we'll address grammatical and syntactical problems; improve word choice and readability; remedy stylistic and consistency issues; flag any potential factual, citation, and bibliographic errors; and fix spelling and punctuation issues. Are you working with any ancient or modern foreign languages? No worries, we'll double check those too. What you can expect as a final product is a well-organized and professional piece of scholarly prose fine tuned for optimal clarity, conciseness, and factual precision while maintaining your original ideas and authorial voice.
Proofreading
Better safe than sorry is always a good principle. After all, even the best copy editors, typesetters, and designers can make a mistake once in a while! Like all our services, we take proofreading seriously at Great Lakes Editing Services. Our standard proofreading not only double checks for typos, spelling errors, tense and syntax issues, and consistency errors but also makes sure all line breaks are placed properly, all heading and subheadings are styled appropriately, and all foreign language fonts are formatted correctly (no backwards Aramaic here). Got an even more specific issue with a manuscript? Let us know and we'll make sure it is taken care of.
Indexing
Ask any author who has had to compile their own index and chances are that they'll describe their overall experience as . . . well, less than enjoyable (tedious and torturous might be more like it). Lucky for you, we actually enjoy indexing here at Great Lakes Editing Services. Whether its an author, lexical, name, subject, or textual source index, we're more than happy to take that off your hands. Every one of our indices is easy-to-use, well-organized, properly formatted, and offers an accurate roadmap for readers to navigate your book based upon their specific interests.
Additional Services
Besides the general academic editorial services listed above, we also offer the following services upon request. For more information, feel free to reach out to us and we can begin discussing your particular project and goals right away!
Dissertation Editing
Book Proposals
Manuscript Review
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Pricing
If you work as project editor for a publisher and have hired a freelancer before, you most likely already know that good editing typically does not come cheap. Some of our competitors have been known to charge fifty to sixty-five US dollars an hour for basic copy editing (and much more for developmental editing).
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At Great Lakes Editing Services, one of our missions is to offer reasonable pricing for top-notch editing services. Our expertise in both the scholarly and editorial aspects of the academic publishing industry gives us an edge over many other freelancers in the Humanities and Social Sciences and allows us to keep our rates competitive without sacrificing quality or cutting corners. Have a particular project you need done but are restricted to a limited budget? Let us know and we can navigate a way to get the job done right for the right price!
