Editing your academic paper: agree the scope and use feedback
Proofreading or editing? Define what should be checked, prepare your own draft and turn feedback into useful revisions with a practical checklist.
Study guides for academic writing and exam preparation.
Five practical guides for your own academic writing and exam preparation, including an example outline, editing briefs, fictional cost calculations, checklists and clear limits.
Develop a research question: from a topic to a workable plan
Narrow a broad topic, check your materials and method, and formulate a research question you can realistically investigate.
Create a practice exam: learning goals, questions and marking
Plan a practice exam from learning goals to feedback, with question formats, a time budget, an illustrative blueprint and clear marking criteria.
Term paper outline: a worked example for 12 pages of text
A concrete outline for a literature-based paper, with chapter purposes, a page plan, clearer headings and a checklist for adapting it to your own question.
How much does academic editing cost? Compare scope and quotes
Understand editing cost factors, billing units and deliverables. Compare a clearly defined scope using explicitly fictional calculations and concrete enquiry briefs.
