About Us
Academic Consultancy was established in 2009 as a proof reading and editing company confined to academic and literary circles in universities and academic institutions. In its initial stages, it aimed at providing assistance to scholars, professors and researchers in making qualitative improvement of the manuscripts, theses and dissertations. It has now grown into a Multi-disciplinary consulting company offering a range of services.
How Are We Different?
Academic Consultancy has set a few prerequisites and criteria for research publications
- High-Quality use of the English language– Grammar and punctuation
- Plagiarism free with least similarity
- Academic translations from French, Spanish and other languages must meet the concerned corpus norms and rewriting ethical procedures
- Formatting according to the journal/thesis guidelines and a consistent reference style
Academic Consultancy segregates editing and proofreading as two separate processes.
- First, while editing an early draft, for instance, we look at its content, quality, relevance of the data and the contribution it makes to the learning domain. At this stage, we do not bother about punctuation, grammar, and spelling. The proofreading process starts after the completion of editing process.
- Subsequently, professional proofreading of a research work is accomplished by making a clear and effective use of the English language. Whether it is an academic essay, dissertation or thesis, or your book or research paper for publication, it requires an effective overhauling and vetting of its contents to meet the international standards and other publication criteria set by international agencies like SCOPUS, ERIC, CABELL’s and Web of Science.
Editing And Proof
While writing a manuscript, the author’s main aim is to achieve the research objectives or test the hypotheses of research and/ or evaluate research questions. During this process, the author may tend to ignore the language and syntax aspects since editing and proofreading is tiring, tedious and often monotonous. However, both editing and proofreading are essential parts of the writing process, in order to achieve effectiveness of writing style and the clarity of ideas.
Often, students and writers think that editing and proofreading are similar, but there are apparent differences between the two. Editing requires to reread the manuscript to check for significant issues, including organization, paragraph structure, and content. However proofread requires to focus on finding and correcting errors in writing, grammar and language.
A few authors may attempt to proofread their manuscripts themselves, but they might not identify the errors of redundancies, repetitions, slangs, colloquialisms, syntactic phrasing and punctuation. There might also be errors capable to distract the readers’ attention; failing to remove them might cause further loss of author’s credibility and reputation, and leading to rejection of the manuscript. Hence, after the author has worked long and hard on a manuscript, it is essential to devise a more effective way to remove errors and lapses.
Academic Consultancy understands these needs and takes the responsibility to polish manuscripts. Our expertise is in proofreading manuscripts that are rejected due to errors of English grammar, syntax and phrasing. Without disturbing the semantic content, our experts change the appearance of a written manuscript and make it publishable and acceptable. This might often involve rewriting a few section of the manuscripts.