Academic Editing Services
Ever wish someone would teach you all of the powerful rhetorical strategies you never learned in graduate school?
If you’re struggling to bring your ideas, research, and writing together with a bang, let’s talk.
Let’s face it: academic writing often gets a bad rap as being excruciating to read. Ever feel like you need a dictionary and several years just to decipher a sentence? (Seriously, what does,"In the intricate web of discursive formations, the panopticon of power surreptitiously orchestrates the epistemic trajectory of subjugated bodies, perpetually inscribing the contours of knowledge through the surveillance of embodied subjectivities.” EVEN MEAN???*)
When you’re trying to communicate your important idea, the last thing you want is for readers to feel frustrated and walk away because they can’t understand what you’re trying to say. But it happens ALL.THE.TIME. Academic writers lose readers because their writing often feels like it’s full of jargon, tortured sentences, and big words to make up for small ideas.
If you’ve ever read an academic book or article and yelled, “This writer has no freaking idea what they’re actually talking about?!” and thrown the book across the room in a fit of sheer frustration, you’re not alone. That’s that’s exactly how most readers feel about poor academic writing. It’s hard to understand, agonizing to read, and easy to write off as nothing more than puffy bloviation and as not worth the effort.
*totally made up sentence, but did you wonder for a just a second if you should know who wrote that? :)
This is exactly how you don’t want readers feel about your writing. I mean, I wouldn’t keep reading. Would you?
BUT HERE’S THE STRAIGHT SH*T: IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT YOU’RE STRUGGLING.
I’m guessing you’re feeling pretty frustrated with your own writing abilities. I mean, you’ve got a bunch of good ideas, but what’s not coming out in your writing? CLARITY AND STYLE.
Your graduate program failed you because it never taught you the basic writing skills you needed to develop to bring your important ideas to readers in language that they can understand. You’re supposed to have somehow just magically learned writing skills along the way (from reading other people’s poor academic writing, I guess?). Too many academic writers just like you have never learned (because no one’s ever just sat you down and taught you) how to create compelling academic prose that turns your good ideas into great scholarship.
LET’S FIX THAT. LIKE, RIGHT NOW. TODAY.
I want better for you.
I want your writing to be engaging, interesting, stylish, and to teach us about your big ideas. I want to empower you with the writing skills you need to learn to create exactly that kind of prose.
When your writing engages us as readers, we’re excited about your ideas and invested in what you have to say. When your writing feels clear, we immediately understand your great ideas rather than struggling to make it through yet another paragraph-long sentence without a life boat.
AND THAT, MY FRIEND, IS HOW YOU START CHANGING PEOPLE’S IDEAS ABOUT THE WORLD.
How would you like to receive feedback on your writing style that feels empowering (rather than the crushing kind that makes you cry) and leaves you with clear and actionable steps to take to improve your writing? Get ready to say goodbye to lifeless passive voice sentences, boring verbs, and lousy sentence structures. Instead, let’s get you on the path to writing sentences that sing!
LET’S TURN YOUR SOGGY SENTENCES INTO STRONG SCHOLARSHIP.
Whether you’re looking for some intensive 1:1 feedback, another pair of eyes on your writing, or someone to help you uplevel your writing skills, book a call to talk about how we can work together to make your good ideas shine.