Editing services by Heather Wallace, PhD
In this sentence makeover, we start with an overcrowded sentence that is trying to do too much work on its own. We break it down into three distinct sentences, each with its own, manageable task.
A well-written abstract or research statement is one key strategy to help your research reach a broader audience. This abstract makeover makes a technical article in philosophy more accessible for a non-expert reader.
Another type of writer who is audience-aware is the hopeful candidate—scholars hoping to reach the highest-stakes audiences: journal reviewers, hiring committees, admission committees, deans and colleagues.
Okay, it’s true: every installment in the “Who can benefit from using an editor?” series emphasizes how an editor can help you reach your readers. The “Writing is Thinking” approach is tailored for writers who care about reaching their readers
Everyone can benefit from using an editor, but the specific benefits depend on what each writer needs. To see other writing profiles, click here. The intellectual in the weeds can use an editor to see their own writing through the
Everyone can benefit from using an editor, but the specific benefits depend on what each writer needs. To see other writing profiles, click here. The busy scholar can use an editor to accelerate the writing process. Writing and revising is
This post should come in the form of a fun quiz: How much time do you have to dedicate to your writing each week? When is your next deadline and how close are you to meeting it? What stage of
When I describe the signature Writing is Thinking Editing approach, I make a bold claim: that for most writers, much of the time, there is a gap between what their sentence says and what it is meant to say. This
When we change a sentence, we change what the sentence says. Even small changes to a sentence—replacing a pronoun, changing the position of commas, finding a more specific verb—contribute to ensuring that a sentence says what it is supposed to
In this Writing is Thinking sentence makeover, I highlight the verbs that get lost in a complex sentence with an em-dash clause. This sentence appears in book of philosophy from Columbia University Press. The author writes: The decision not