Dear International Students, Faculty, and Scholars: I am now focusing most of my time on editing documents for students, faculty, and scholars whose first language is not English. Most of these clients have been Asians at Cornell University, but I will work on documents for clients of any nationality. I edit statements they write to apply for grad school and for faculty positions, papers they intend to submit for publication to an English journal, business reports, white papers, and research proposals. I edit documents in all fields. I have edited papers in engineering, nanofabrication, statistics, plant pathology, city and regional planning, food science, biotechnology, plant breeding, biomedicine, and more. Recently, I edited a paper in economics, which just got published by the Korean author in the Journal of Mathematical Economics. Clients simply send me their document as an email attachment, I edit it in MS Word using Track Changes, and return the document, usually within 48 hours.
I have published dozens of papers in refereed journals over the past 40 years, and I served as Associate Editor for the journal Ecological Applications for three years. I taught university courses for 30 years, and I conducted research on birds and mammals throughout the U.S. and in Costa Rica. I lived in Korea and Costa Rica for one year each and, recently, I have been visiting Taiwan to teach short courses on conservation biology at National Taiwan University. Most documents take less than three hours of editing to complete, unless they are unusually long. My clients pay me by sending me a check or depositing money in my PayPal account, which is very simple to do. Also, if the client wants to send me their document, I can provide an estimate of how much it will cost and how long it should take me to complete the job. As I edit, I also try to suggest ways to improve their writing in English generally. I can provide references from recent clients, if that is desirable. All correspondence between the author and me, including the contents of any document, is kept strictly confidential. So if you think this is valuable, please pass the word along. My charges for this service: individuals-$40 per hour; institutions-$70 per hour; add 10% if you want me to guarantee that your document will be returned within 24 hours.
