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Scientific editing and proofreading services for researchers and scientists across all scientific fields are also offered by PRS.

Careful scientific editing and proofreading are essential when preparing scientific writing for publication in scholarly journals and books. Each author will need to check and correct his or her own work, of course, and asking colleagues or mentors to read that work and offer a constructive commentary is also an excellent idea. However, there is simply no substitute for a professional scientific editor who specialises in scientific writing. When you send your scientific writing to us, you can be confident that a highly educated native speaker of English who is familiar with your discipline and subject area will edit your work with the utmost attention to detail, correcting any errors in your grammar, spelling and punctuation and ensuring that you have observed all the requirements for structure, formatting and references.

Scientific papers, whether short or long, tend to contain a great deal of detailed and specialised information. Precise descriptions of complicated methods and results, numerical and other data, discipline-specific terminology and abbreviations of all kinds are standard fare in scientific books, articles, theses, dissertations, laboratory reports and grant proposals. Accuracy and consistency are essential for recording and communicating scientific information of this kind, so special care must always be taken when reporting scientific research, and thorough and exacting scientific editing and proofreading are required to ensure that every detail is correct.

Ensuring that all those details are just right is not the only challenge that scientists face when writing up their research, however. Scientific documents also need to meet the scholarly standards observed in all successful academic writing. The language used must be clear and correct, without grammar, punctuation and spelling errors, and both formatting and editorial styles must be appropriate for each document and used consistently throughout it. The incorrect or inconsistent use of these elements can confuse and even misinform or mislead readers, yet it can be notoriously difficult to write with precision and perfect grammar when so much complex and interrelated material is involved, especially if you are writing in a language that is not your native tongue. Tiny errors in formatting and references can be incredibly difficult to spot amidst the profusion of data found in many scientific books and articles, particularly, if paradoxically, when you know the material very well indeed. All publishers and instructors will want well-written documents, and many will provide specific guidelines and instructions for authors that must be followed with exactitude and consistency. Writing that is incorrect or unclear and formatting and styles that are inappropriate or inconsistent risk your work being rejected by journal editors and receiving low grades from instructors, even when the research and content are excellent or groundbreaking in other ways.

Sharing your writing with colleagues and mentors before you submit it for publication or grading can be extremely helpful, particularly if their specialities overlap with your own, but the scientific editing services of a professional scientific proofreader are well worth their price. The scientific editors at PRS, for instance, are highly educated native speakers of English. They hold postgraduate degrees, many of them doctorates, in a wide range of scientific subjects, and all of them are experts in the scientific editing of English text. They can check and correct your grammar, punctuation and spelling as well as the formatting and the editorial style of references, abbreviations and other elements of your writing. Since our editors are scientists and careful critical readers, they can look out for errors in data and suggest where descriptions of methods and results are not as clear and precise as they might be. They are also adept at assessing the effectiveness of the tables and figures that often play such an important role in communicating the details of scientific research.

An enormous amount of research, analysis and reflection is invested in each piece of scientific writing, and a great deal can depend on the success of that writing. Publication in respected scholarly journals is essential for employment and promotions, and it is important that the articles published are actually read and cited, which is far more likely to be the case if those articles, especially their titles and abstracts, are well written. Grants and other funding opportunities are often a benefit of successful publication and high citation rates, but compelling and informative proposals are also required, and these, too, must be painstakingly edited. For research students who are writing scientific theses and dissertations, the risk of excellent research not achieving the scholarly standard of presentation required to earn a doctoral or master’s degree can be eliminated by careful scientific editing and proofreading. The members of the PRS team are happy to offer scientific editing services for all kinds of scientific documents and would be delighted to help you to reduce the risks and reap the full rewards of your research and writing.

Why Us?

We guarantee 100% satisfaction.

All our proofreaders are highly qualified native English speakers. The price is worked out at a flat rate per 1,000 words, so you know exactly how much the editing of your paper will cost in advance.

Subject Matter Editors
Experienced US and UK editors are available in your academic field.

Secure and Confidential
We will never give away personal details or reveal anything about your paper. The security of your document is guaranteed by PRS. Files are transferred over a secure network, and your paper will be deleted after one calendar month.

Reference Check
Our paper editors will make sure that your sources are cited correctly whether you use Harvard referencing, APA style or any other citation style.

We are a dedicated provider of scientific editing and proofreading services for publishing authors in all scientific fields.

We use the ‘track changes’ function of Microsoft Word when editing your scientific paper. This function allows you to move easily between changes and accept any or all of the modifications proposed by the scientific editor. Corrections, suggestions and comments are shown in the right-hand margin and are easy to incorporate into your paper.

Interested? Get in Touch with PRS

If you are interested in our scientific editing and proofreading services, please send us your scientific paper, stating the academic field, deadline and any formatting or style requirements.

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Journal Article Editing

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Dissertation and Thesis Editing

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Research Papers Editing

PRS has an enthusiastic team of research paper editors who will be happy to help you achieve the success that you desire through your writing.

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