Academic Services

Unlike other services that give a quick result but often at the expense of attention to detail, I give a personal bespoke service. I like to work closely with my clients to get results that satisfy them first time! And on the rare occasions this doesn’t happen, I offer unlimited* revisions to make sure your work is as good as it can be!

Sometimes you need a bit more than proofreading. I can take what you’ve written and improve on it, restructuring it and adding extra references and details.

Last, but not least, I offer academic writing services. I can write something for you from scratch. In both reworking and writing, I aim for a 2.1 or 1st Class grade essay.

Why Employ A Professional Academic Proofreader?

With a high percentage of marks available for good grammar and spelling and an increasing number of students in higher and further education, it’s now more important than ever to stand out! If you have a few doubts about your accuracy, don’t worry. I am here to help. I am highly experienced both with native British English speakers and with foreign national students. Having a background as an English as a Foreign language teacher for 20 years has given me a great insight into the kinds of mistakes people make – very little gets past me! The testimonial above was from a mature student who had not written an essay for some time, and her words speak for themselves. You can see more testimonials.

Please do be advised, I cannot guarantee that you will get better marks, as I’m not in control of your tutors. However, in my experience, my work has always seen an increase in marks for my clients, some a very great increase as in the above testimonial. I also highly recommend that you use my input as a guide only, to improve on your own work. However, you own the finished product once you’ve paid, so what you do with it is up to you.

In these days of spelling and grammar checkers, some people wonder what the point is of paying a professional to correct their work or copy for them. Unfortunately there is a world of difference between correct spelling and grammar and what these checkers can achieve.

Look for example at the amount of spell checked documents that retain American English – that’s not really giving a great impression if you are a UK based student, though of course if you are a student wanting me to check over something in International or American English, I am happy to do that too. Also machine checking, no matter how good, is not comparable to having a real life native British professional proofreader do the job of looking over your work. Electronic grammar checkers are frequently wrong and do not account for sense and flow of documents. There’s also no accurate way to check punctuation mechanically. Besides, checking your spelling isn’t going to weed out mistakes like mixing up there, their and there. Having marked essays myself as both an EFL teacher and English tutor, I know how much more impressive it is if the document is well written, as the level of accuracy is monumentally important. It impacts both the ease of reading and comprehensiveness of documents.

Whether you are on a college course, a degree course, are a postgraduate student or academic, if you have any doubts about the correctness of your written work, in order to maximise your impact on your readers, you cannot go wrong by getting your work checked over by a professional in academic proofreading.

There are discounts on higher word counts, and for returning customers (see prices and terms page). Sounds good? Go to the contact page now!

Please also contact me if you have any questions before ordering – Helen

* Unlimited revisions are subject to fair usage