English Language Editing
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Improve your written English with editing from our experts.
We can improve the language in all of your research-related documents: for example, research papers, grant proposals, theses, reports, and news articles. We also edit documents from all disciplines – from engineering and medicine to humanities and social sciences.
Upload your document for English Language Editing
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English Language Editing: Silver
Silver provides a reliable edit to correct English language errors.
- We will correct errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation and will polish English language usage.
- We will also rephrase sentences that sound unnatural, use subject expertise to point out sentences that are confusing, and make your style sound more professional.
English Language Editing: Gold
Gold provides a more-detailed edit with a greater emphasis on the overall flow of the sentences.
- We will correct fundamental language errors and rephrase or point out awkward and confusing sentences.
- We will focus on the finer points of style and on improving the phrasing.
- You will receive a summary of the English language editing performed on your document.
Note: Our editors will not comment on research content, restructure or format the document, or translate text from another language. If you require formatting or translation, please see our Manuscript Formatting and Academic Translation services.
Our Editors
When you submit work for English Language Editing, your document is matched with an editor who specializes in your subject area. The editor understands the terminology and the challenges that are unique to your discipline.
Each of our subject-expert editors:
- has completed or is completing a Master’s, PhD or MD qualification
- is affiliated with a top US university or research institute
- has undergone substantial editing training and is continually reviewed for quality
Our editors are held to the high standards we expect at Nature Research, to ensure you receive the highest quality of editing.
Our Quality Guarantee and Certificate
Our Quality Guarantee
We are so confident of the quality of our English language editing that we offer a Quality Guarantee.
We guarantee that if your language-edited paper is rejected by a journal because of the English alone, and we believe that you have made a good-faith effort to incorporate our changes, we will re-edit your paper once for free.
We cannot extend this guarantee to papers that have been rewritten after our revisions. Therefore, we recommend that you submit your paper for language editing as the final step before submitting it to a journal.
Our Certificate
We will provide a certificate confirming that your document was edited by native English speakers with expertise in your field of study.
You will be able to download the certificate from your account, along with your edited document.
You can then provide the certificate to the journal of your choice to demonstrate that the language in your paper has been professionally edited and verified.
Note that the certificate does not cover changes made after our editing.
What Customers Say
Thank you for your excellent work on my manuscript. I am very satisfied with the revision and this manuscript has been published in a highly respected journal. Thus, I highly recommend your extremely skilled and careful editing.
C. Chang · Taiwan
It was really helpful to improve the quality of my publication. Thank you.
Y. Athukorala · Canada
The editing services have a high-level of professionalism, and the work comes with some suggestions that are very helpful to make a manuscript that reads very well. Using the gold service, we have received a detailed description of common errors found and some ideas for future manuscripts.
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