Journal Articles
Publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals is one of the most difficult parts of developing an academic career. Often, there is a sizable gap between the standards for graduate-level work and peer-reviewed publications.
Professors and advisers are typically too busy to offer detailed feedback, while writing centers are tightly constrained in their mission and don’t generally provide editing services. To get serious feedback on journal articles, as well as detailed editing, graduate students and academic writers need other options.
Writer Wiz fills this need by providing detailed editing, proofreading, style formatting, and high-level analysis. When reviewing an article, Writer Wiz does more than simply critique the writing. We also:
– Analyze the article’s structure, argumentation (e.g., claim, reasons, evidence, warrants)
– Assess tone and and rhetorical style
– Look for signposting and effective use of transitional sentences and phrases
– Carefully edit the writing
– Offer advice on how to improve the article to increase its chances of publication
If desired, Writer Wiz will also research the submission requirements for a particular journal and format it accordingly.
As with dissertation editing, we offer two tiers of editing for articles:
Deep Line Editing—Sentence-by-sentence editing with close attention paid to technical and stylistic matters such as sentence structure, transitions, grammar, tense consistency, word choice, logic, paragraph development, and ambiguities of meaning. We analyze also the article’s structure, argumentation (e.g., claim, reasons, evidence, warrants); assess tone and and rhetorical style; look for signposting and effective use of transitional sentences and phrases; carefully edit the writing; and offer advice on how to improved the article to increase its chances of publication. Deep Line Editing also includes style formatting for APA, MLA, or another style sheet.
Proofreading / Style Formatting—Careful editing of the article to ensure accordance with formatting guidelines of APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, or other style sheets (including those used by particular academic departments or journals); checking of fonts, margins, spacing, headers, tables of contents, figures and tables, citations, page and footnote numbering, widow and orphan lines; detailed copy editing to fix misspellings and typos, grammatical errors, punctuation errors, missing or extra words, incorrectly formatted citations, etc.
