Frequently Asked Questions

Proofreading Approach

Question: What is your approach to editing?1

Answer: That’s a good question, but giving a good answer is difficult. Let me answer at length at EditingApproach

Acceptable File Formats

Question: As what kind of file should I send my paper to you?2

Answer: I will edit any file in any format I am sent.

That said, I have an OrderOfPreferences

Rewriting

Question: Do you understand my argument? I don’t think I understand it myself. Can you rewrite the paper for me?

Answer: No, I can’t do that. See ReWriting

Using First Language

Question Can you read Chinese, Japanese or Korean? Maybe, l need to use my native languagge to express my meanings sometimes.

Answer: Yes, we can do that. See UsingFirstLanguage

Discipline-specific experience

Question My major research is in X and Y. It seems that you did not do the related article for English editing. For example, a, b …

Answer I did edit an article on Z a long time ago, and recently I have been editing a c article about the d by someone at U University.

But, no, I haven’t ever edited an X paper.

But I would like to try. I think I would do a GoodJob.

Track Changes

Question Can you use Track Changes in MS Word so I can see what changes you make?

Answer Sorry, I can’t usually do that. Let me explain at TrackChanges.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Questio What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Answer My strengths are my English language skills, my attention to detail, my ability and desire to understand difficult material and my experience. See GoodJob

My weaknesses are that it may take me more than a week to finish a long paper and my wish that I did not have to deal with MS Word. See FileFormats

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  1. Not actually questions I’ve been asked, but one asked of editors at NCKU

    In Taiwan, NCKU has (had) an internal academic editing service staffed by foreign teachers associated with the university, NDHU also has one.

    Researchers can choose from a list of available teacher/editors the one they wish to edit their manuscript. And the teacher/editors have descriptions of their requirements and their strengths as editors.

    Researchers pay the service which pays the editors. (In Korea, Yonsei U will pay for editing by external commercial services and it maintains a list of services with relationships with the school.)

    Two of the items that I thought were good questions were Proofreading Approach and Acceptable File Formats.

    I wanted to answer those questions myself.↩︎

  2. As for the question, Proofreading Approach, this is not one I have actually been asked. See the footnote to that question.↩︎