ALONG with the emphasis on research in our HEI’s is the rising need for editing services of academic capstones – dissertations/theses and research/project papers. Since our world is an imperfect world (sorry for people who help make it so!) our degree candidates at times are trapped into paying what they and other academic constituents feel as unreasonable editing cost. Considering the lack of professionally trained editors, perhaps universities could train academics in accepted editing practices and hopefully arrive at a standardized cost of the different levels of editing services. As the reader will later note, capstone advising could take over some aspects of editing like substantive edit, since edits overlap to some degree.

Web sources on editing describe various editing services which boil down to three levels. One source, refers more to editing a creative piece such as a book and describes this as “big picture” edit or “developmental, structural or substantive edit.”

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