Seeking a Professional Editor?
Tutors in the Richard Wright Center are not professional editors. Students and faculty seeking professional editing services may refer to the list of editors below.
What the Center can and cannot do
Tutors in the Richard Wright Center are not professional editors. They work with students in the process of developing their ideas, and they can also offer strategies for editing and proofreading. Students and faculty seeking professional editing services may refer to the list of editors below.
Before hiring an editor, please consider consulting with your professor or advisor. You may also want to read an article by Dr. Wendy Belcher How to Hire & Work With an Academic Copyeditor.
Note: These editors are not affiliated with the Richard Wright Center, and we are not endorsing them by providing their contact information.
- Tutors Do
- Work with students developing their ideas; offer strategies for editing and proofreading
- Tutors Do Not
- Provide professional editing services
- First Step
- Consult your professor or advisor
- Affiliation
- Listed editors are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Center
- Appointments
- jsums.mywconline.com
Professional editors
These editors are not affiliated with the Richard Wright Center, and the Center is not endorsing them by providing their contact information.
Beardmore, Matt
Chambers, Candace
- Dissertations
- Resumes/ Curriculum Vitae
- Book Manuscripts
- Writing Samples
- Business Plans
Faircloth, Susan C., Ph.D.
- Academic Editing (e.g., journal articles, book chapters, books, proposals, dissertations)
- Developmental Editing/Manuscript Review
- Line Editing
- Reference/Citation Review and Formatting (APA 7)
- Review of Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Materials
Iyo, Abiye
Moores, D. J., Ph. D.
- Grammar
- Syntax
- Punctuation, mechanics, and spelling
- Quotations and citations
- Logic, flow, voice
- Paragraph development
- Rhetorical impact
- Style adherence (MLA, APA, Chicago, and others)
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