Standard Editing is ideal when your manuscript already reads well but still needs language correction and a light polish. A native-English PhD editor will fix grammar, spelling and punctuation; streamline wording for clarity and concision; and ensure an appropriate academic tone. All edits are delivered with Word Tracked Changes and margin notes, so you stay in control. A typical 5,000-word paper receives about 500–800 edits—enough to lift solid writing to journal-ready quality without major rewrites.
Service Summary
Eliminating errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation
Checking for accuracy in language, structure, and rhetoric expressions as well as consistency in tense
Improve word choice, style, academic tone, sentence structure, comprehension, and terminology
Highlighting of obvious issues
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You will receive
A text that is free of language errors and that reads in a native English tone
Free Proofreading Certificate
Post-editing support
Acceptance Guarantee (see below)
Example: a 5,000-word manuscript typically receives 500–800 edits (corrections, insertions, deletions, and comments).
What is it for?
Manuscript already has relatively good level of English
You need language correction and light polish
Manuscript requires a limited number of corrections but no major rewrites or text re-organization
You are looking for a fast and budget-friendly option
What are the alternatives?
If your manuscript needs more extensive editing, including a greater number of corrections or more substantial rewrites (e.g, rewording awkward and overly convoluted phrases), we recommend our Premium Editing package instead.
If you are looking for a more comprehensive service that goes beyond mere editing and also provides support during the peer review process, you may find that our Carefree Package is just right for you.
The excerpt below shows Standard Editing with Word Tracked Changes: precise corrections, light rephrasing for clarity, and margin notes that flag issues without altering your scientific meaning.
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Acceptance Guarantee
If a journal rejects your paper merely because of its English proficiency, although you accepted all our edits and made no further changes prior to submission to the journal, we will re-check your manuscript for free and formulate a rebuttal letter to the journal (see our FAQ section).
Discounts for large documents
Bespoke discounts may be granted for larger documents such as books or theses upon request. Simply send us an email with your word count and subject area and we will let you know.
Our Quality Guarantee
Unlike some of our competition, we neither employ automated AI systems nor undergraduate students from low income countries to proofread your manuscript. All our editors are experienced academics with PhD and/or MD degrees from highly regarded universities who will take the time needed to correct not just simple spelling and grammatical errors, but, more importantly, improve logical flow, awkward phrasing, word choice, and academic tone. These types of corrections are more time consuming and require an editor who not only understands the science but who possesses the necessary experience and abilities to be able to suggest improvements at this level. The many positive client testimonials show that our approach is the right one.
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