(02) E-mail addresses:
(Servers are quirky, and e-mails often bounce.
Please provide secondary e-mail address.)
(03) Day/evening phone numbers
(in case the response to your e-mail bounces or the editors need clarification regarding the scope of service needed, deadline, etc.):
(04) City, State, Country (or time zone):
(05) Which of our services do you need?
Rewriting (for example, for language clarity, help incorporating committee suggestions)
Developmental editing / content advisement / organizing presentation of research
Research guidance, review of research
Statistical analysis
Indexing
General consultation / defense
Copyediting / formatting
Ethical Limits:
Our editors will not perform research or write original content for students, and our statisticians will not answer homework or test questions.
(06) Is this the proposal or the final thesis/dissertation?
(07) What is your hypothesis, topic, and thesis statement?
(08) What is your college/university and academic department?
(09) When is your deadline for this portion? When is your deadline for the completion of the entire project?
(10) Currently, how many pages have you completed? How many pages are required for your final product?
(11) Does your work need to be in a particular format (e.g., Chicago, Turabian, APA, MLA)?
(12) What are your needs with regard to figures/tables/charts?
(13) Will your advisor be working with you from scratch or from a prior draft?
(14) What is your budget for the entire project/consulting arrangement?
(15) The name(s) of the advisors(s) you'd like to contact:
(16) How did you learn about our service? (e.g., name of website, name of search engine)
Attach a writing sample. Your name must appear in the document you submit, or it can be the name of the document (e.g., joesmith.doc).
Once your e-mail is received, the coordinator will forward it (plus any attached files) to the advisor(s) you selected. If no selection is made, the coordinator will send your submission to advisor(s) in your field of study or to advisors/editors who provide the services you have requested. If you require copyediting and formatting, your submission may be rerouted to an affiliated network of academic editing specialists.
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THESIS AND DISSERTATION WRITING CONSULTANTS
AND EDITORS
Lynetta Campbell: SPSS, SAS, JMP, R, logistic regression, exploratory data analysis, engineering data analysis, linear modeling, quantitative modeling, quantitative forecasting, hierarchical modeling, regression methods, qualitative survey data, linear model analysis
B Collins: applied social psychology, research methods and assessments, communications, criminal justice, culture/ethnicity, empirical research, ethics/morality, health, interpersonal processes, organizational behavior, person perception, social influence, prejudice/stereotyping.
Brandy Cooper: APA formatting (6th edition), proofreading
Margaret Eaton: theology, classical Hebrew; Old Testament, Koine Greek, New Testament.
Vicki Lawrence: biostatistics, research methodologies, public health,
epidemiology research, data set management, NHANES.
Gary Michaels: Sociology, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Deviance, Social Control, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Problems, Qualitative Methods, Law Enforcement and Victimology.
Elizabeth Pearman: educational psychology, educational program evaluation, education research methods.
Wes Russell: Statistical Data Analysis, Mathematical Statistician, Business Data Analyist, Research Statistician, Analysis of Data, Statistical Consulting for Graduate Students.
Chris Tomei: Slavic studies, humanities, computational linguistics, linguistic theory, Russian, comparative literature, folklore, modernism and women's studies, international relations, comparative culture, indexer of scholarly books.
Barbara von Diether: research strategies, scholarly writing, education administration, education technology, secondary education, curriculum development, needs assessment, education leadership, instructional design, instructional media, advertising, business administration, business management, business and educational leadership training and development, communications.
INDEXER
Madge Wallace is a professional freelance indexer. She creates indexes found at the back of nonfiction books. When an index is done according to generally accepted indexing standards, it performs flawlessly. The reader finds what he is looking for and doesn’t give the index a second thought. On the other hand, if the index is poorly done, the reader becomes frustrated and will likely move on to the next book. Worse yet, a nonfiction book published without an index may not be taken seriously by the publishing industry. In short, a good index enhances the value of a book to readers, reviewers, librarians, instructors, and researchers. It is a mark of a serious book.
D. FISHER is an instructional designer and distributed learning consultant. As a thesis/dissertation editor, she works with graduate students to strengthen the research design and literature reviews, address content and organizational weaknesses, set the proper academic tone, design the appropriate writing structure (quantitative/qualitative) and rewrite for clarity.
D. FISHER , M.S.Ed, B.A., is president and owner of an independent education, learning, and communications consulting company that serves both individual graduate learners and institutions of higher education. When working with graduate learners, Deb perceives her role as that of a personal writing coach and academic advisor, providing guidance and encouragement during the prospectus, proposal, analysis, and publication phases of scholarly writing. Whether helping clients brainstorm a researchable thesis; providing theoretical guidance relative to research focus and/or positional development; recommending structural and organizational revisions to enhance the clarity and cohesion of an argument; or editing for grammar, mechanics and punctuation, she customizes her services to meet the specific needs of her clients. More than achieving the completion and committee approval of a scholarly manuscript, clients appreciate Deb’s emphasis on the development of skills that help them communicate effectively using all the techniques of good writing—skills that serve them well beyond their graduate program. Deb has enjoyed coaching-advising relationships with hundreds of learners who represent a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, and all have been awarded their graduate degrees.