Frequently asked questions (FAQs): Under construction
Are your services intended only for overseas students?
My services are not exclusively for overseas students. However, my experience and expertise makes the service I offer particularly suited to those overseas students who wish to develop and enrich their own ideas, expressions, arguments and discourses. I have assisted students of different types to develop their own consistent, fluent and clear writing style, within the varied genres and specific idioms of academic writing in English.
‘Native’ speakers of English, wanting to check and improve the consistency and style of their written work, might find my services particularly appropriate at the proof-reading stage of their dissertation or thesis.
How does the proof-reading and editing service work?
Postgraduate or undergraduate students arrive for tuition by prior arrangement with a complete typed paper copy of their work. Alternatively the agreement might be to work on-screen on an electronic copy, which, by prior arrangement, they have sent to my email address, copied and pasted to an email (but not as an attachment). If a text for proof-reading is sent electronically, I must receive it 24 hours prior to the proof-reading tutorial to ensure that it can be scanned for viruses.
Do you offer an on-line proof-reading service or only ‘face-to-face’ service?
Without doubt, working with a student ‘face-to-face’ is the ideal. However, I will consider proof-reading theses ‘online’ where this is appropriate and feasible, usually where there has been previous face to face work, and a reliable broadband connection is available.
How can tuition, proof-reading and editing be booked?
The proof-reading and editing service can be booked in two ways. The first option is a regular, weekly commitment for up to two hours per day in the mornings of the Birmingham Education Authority term-time period. (In this case, a guaranteed weekly service-level is agreed in a contract for tuition on one or more particular day). Alternatively, services may be booked 'as and when required' on an ad. hoc., occasional basis.