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Do you have your serial commas in the right place?
Do your sentences begin with "It" but without an antecedent?
Are your compound adjectives hyphenated?
Do you know whether or if to use "that" or "which?"

 
If you write and hope to publish,
you may need my services.		 CLICK here to determine
what your needs are.
 
According to "What's Wrong with this Manuscript? An Analysis of the Reasons for Rejection," almost half (45 percent) of manuscripts reviewed and rejected for publication were judged to contain awkward constructions or otherwise lack clarity of language (JRST 30:2, 1993)
 
   

 Indian / Asian doctors and ESL writers aiming to
 publish  in British or American medical and science
 journals.  Need to  polish your text for publication?
  • We edit and format, conform to publication style, and check citations
  • We also do forms, tables, graphs and charts.

 
 
 
Kudos
Sheila Harty is a precise, thorough, and stylistically accomplished editor.  Our paper on federal liability under hazardous waste laws was immeasurably more accurate, organized, and readable thanks to her talented efforts.
-Health Division, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D.C.

Our biotechnology conference proceedings required knowledge of scientific terminology and sound instincts for logical presentation.  Sheila Harty's technical editing was so skillful that we contracted her for several subsequent texts.
-Council for Research Planning in Biological Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Now that the book is behind me, I want to take a moment to extol the skills of Sheila Harty.
In addition to being a terrific editor, she is fast and economically very fair.  We did
the entire book by email, which was very convenient...  She is best suited for complex, large, and conceptually difficult pieces.  There is nothing more complex than health care; you can see what her enlightened formatting did for our effort.
-Former Executive Secretary of Vermont Health and Human Services
to The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland

I definitely recommend Sheila Harty to anyone seeking an editor with a competent eye and a flair for enhancing readability as she did for our state report on Outcomes of Well-Being.
-Vermont Agency of Health and Human Services, Montpelier, Vermont

Sheila Harty has a unique skill of rendering complicated issues understandably.
-Project 2061, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.

In preparing manuscripts, Sheila Harty impressed me with her diligence and concentration; in the fileds of medicine, science, language, and education, her talented performance is outstanding.
-Medical Specialists of St. Augustine, Florida
SERVICES

This list is essentially hierarchical in time
and cost, however, everything is negotiable.

 
REVIEW
  • read critically for form and
    content and write up comments
    for improvement of text,
    readability, and presentation.
PROOFREADING
  • correct grammar, punctuation,
    spelling, typos, and errors of fact.
EDITING
  • copy edit text for clarity, brevity, and consistency to publication style
  • editing with a standard rigor includes restructuring sentences and paragraphs for logic, sequence, and writer's intent, including conforming bibliography, footnotes, quotations, captions, and abbreviations to standard form.
  • abstracting entails more extensive editing to shorten any length text to any size final product, i.e., executive summaries and one-page briefs.
 
WRITING
  • information organized in logical sequence and priority to produce persuasive copy that presents complex subjects clearly with relevance for appropriate target audiences (ghost writing also available).
 
FORMATTING
  • page layout (headers, footers, headings and subheadings, bulleted lists, side bars) to ensure attractive presentation and readability including appropriate use of space, font sizes and styles, scanned photos, clipart, and sidebars.
  • textual elements for books, such as front matter (acknowledgements, preface) or back matter (indices, appendices).
  • generating tables, graphs, and figures from quantitative data and also reproducing forms for online or computer-accessible data entry.

 		  
   
Contact Info:
Ph. 904-826-0563
Fax 904-826-3619
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