Proofreading and Private Tuition

We offer to proofread students’ theses, dissertations and essays. You can test the quality of our services with no obligations. See our Sample Edit offer for details.

With our standard Proofreading service we will:

  • Identify typographical, spelling and punctuation errors, and suggest corrections

  • Identify errors and anomalies of grammar and syntax, and suggest corrections

  • Highlight overly long or complex passages, especially where the meaning is ambiguous

  • Advise on shortening long sentences and editing long paragraphs

  • Identify errors in labelling, formatting and style of citations and references

  • Identify repetitions and omissions

Students should ensure they have permission from their university and/or supervisor to engage the services of a professional proofreader.

Our Proofreading Plus service could also be suitable for students, depending on the guidelines at their university. With this service we offer standard Proofreading plus the identification of other flaws in a manuscript, such as:

  • Inappropriate choice of words

  • Use of words that need further explanation

  • Poor structure

  • Lack of logical flow

  • Argument that needs clarification or development, or is faulty (explaining why)

  • Information that we think needs checking

  • Judgements and wording that appear to us to be overly categorical

If a client opts for our Premium service, we will not only point out the above issues, we will work more closely with the client to fix them. We will suggest more appropriate vocabulary where needed, and help to restructure sentences and passages where they are unclear. We will endeavour to retain the client’s style and voice in all our edits.

Students should consult their university guidelines to see how much copyediting they are allowed. If they are allowed some copyediting but not everything that we offer, we can provide what is allowed for a discounted price. Send us the guidelines and we will calculate the discount.

Quality Guarantee

If a client is dissatisfied with our work and can show fair justification, we will offer either a full or partial refund or a re-edit. If you request further editing or proofreading of a document after you have rewritten some sections of it, we will charge only for editing or proofreading substantially rewritten sections, at a 50% discount.

ESL Private Tuition

This is another service we offer to students. Based on an assessment of needs, it involves one-to-one tutorials, to help improve the client’s study skills and proficiency in the use of English.

We will not attempt to ghostwrite students’ essays, but we do offer to look at essays which have already been graded and advise on how they could have been improved. In this way, we identify persistent linguistic and other errors that students may be making in their essays. We also advise students on how to plan their research, sift the literature, weigh evidence, marshal arguments and present data. The results are quickly seen in better grades, as our reviews section demonstrates.

Subject Matter Expertise

Our academic editors can copyedit and proofread documents, and provide tuition in writing, on a wide range of topics. They are familiar with the terminology and issues in their fields of expertise and in related fields, which are in the following disciplines:

Agriculture, Art, Business, Communications (Media Studies), Critical Theory, Economics (International Development, Globalisation and Political Economy), Environmental Studies (Environmental Law), History, Law (International Law), Literature, Philosophy, Political Science (International Relations), Religious Studies, Social Sciences (Development Studies), War Studies.

Confidential

We take our clients’ confidentiality extremely seriously. All of our staff have signed confidentiality agreements and will not disclose client files or information to anyone outside Humanitas. We will sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), with any client who requests this.