Editing Services

Are you looking to medical editing services to help publish research articles in medical journals? If so, you’ll know that the field is highly competitive and journal editors and peer reviewers have exacting standards.

Providing a report containing medical terminology and research can be a complex document and it is imperative that the document is presented clearly, concisely and accurate. The language must be presented in the correct professional way for the target audience and it must be informative and correct. There are many different medical fields so the medical content and terminology can cover a very wide spectrum. You will want to ensure that your scientific research manuscripts are not rejected by the publishers.

What we check for

• Grammar
• Spelling
• Punctuation
• Syntax
• Typing errors
• Clarity of meaning
• Structure
• Consistency
• Abbreviations, acronyms, numbers and equations
• We can add comments of our suggestions and analysis

Medical transcripts you may require editing

• Expert witness reports
• Clinical notes
• Operative and procedure notes
• Radiology reports
• Consultation reports
• Accident reports
• Rehabilitation notes
• Digital medical transcription
• Psychiatric evaluations
• Medical findings and analysis
• Dissertations
• Medico-legal reports
• Symposia transcription
• Interview and research
• Research documents
• In-patient summaries
• Pharmaceutical and drug making procedures

Why not use our medical editing services to ensure your article is clear, readable and ready for publication in medical journals. We can also help with proofreading and copy-editing of medical manuscripts, grant applications, proposals and policy documents.

Don’t worry if English is not your native language, our medical editors will work with you to ensure that your article reads well and is accurate, without losing your original writing intent.

We can check for punctuation, grammar, and edit for clarity and style and restructure paragraphs and sections, as well as ensuring technical accuracy. Regardless of your medical specialty, we have access to medical editors experienced in many fields (any examples of this? I can add rheumatology, orthopaedics, sports medicine and health policy), and all have scrupulous attention to detail and a common-sense approach to medical editing.

Our team of experts provide high quality dissertation editing services and are ready to take your work to the next level.

Worried that you’ve spent so much time staring at your dissertation or thesis that you just can’t see whether there are mistakes?

Whether you need a fresh pair of eyes to weed out glitches in punctuation, grammar or syntax, or a more thorough thesis editing, our team can work with you to ensure that when you hand over your work on deadline day, it is readable, properly presented and free from mistakes.

Whether you’re a final year undergraduate, postgraduate or PhD, your dissertation/thesis is the culmination of years of learning, research and growth.

As the springboard to the next step in your academic or professional career, it is crucial to get it absolutely right.

Dissertation editing is the final stage before submission – That’s where Fingertips can help. Our team of experts will ensure your dissertation demonstrates your ability to analyse, research, argue and draw conclusions on your chosen topic.

We will check that your dissertation is structured in the correct way, that your points are explained clearly and to the point with the correct use of English language and syntax.

If your dissertation does not explain your findings in the best way, this could lose you marks and affect your final grade which will then affect your chance of being offered the job of your dreams.

What will we check for?

• Spelling and grammar
• Grammar and syntax
• Punctuation
• Style and tone
• Abbreviations, acronyms and numbers
• Use of good academic English
• Clear sentence structures
• Formatting
• Consistency in layout, font and headings
• We can add comments where we think the client will need to read our opinions.

It’s best to get in touch with us well before your submission deadline, as dissertation editing is a significant piece of work and we want to do our absolute best for you, but we also pride ourselves on quick and efficient turnaround as much as we do our accuracy.

The speed of delivery will vary based on the scope of your requirements. A final proofread of your dissertation can be done within 24-48 hours, whereas a thorough thesis editing service involving background research, reframing of arguments and stripping out of unnecessary or repetitive content may need a longer lead time.

Our dissertation editing rates are highly competitive and a worthwhile investment in your academic and professional future.

We can’t get you an A grade – only your sheer hard work will achieve that. What we can do however is ensure that your essay writing is as clear, concise, well-structured and persuasive as possible. Our essay editing services can provide you with someone experienced to offer detailed feedback and suggestions to help you improve your school or university essay submissions.

You’ve worked hard all year to learn the concepts, arguments and themes your essay needs; now it’s time to use our essay editing service to make sure that your grammar and punctuation is grade A for accurate, correct any inconsistencies and ensure and that each paragraph counts in expressing your points with style. If you’ve got writer’s block, don’t worry, we can suggest ways of improving your prose that you may not have even thought of.

What will we check for?

• Spelling and grammar
• Grammar and syntax
• Punctuation
• Style and tone
• Abbreviations, acronyms and numbers
• Use of good academic English
• Clear sentence structures
• Formatting
• Consistency in layout, font and headings
• We can add comments where we think the client will need to read our opinions

Whether it is an essay for university, college, school our editors will ensure your document is consistent in style, sentence, structure and layout. We will add comments and suggestions if we think there are repetitions, improvements on language and terminology, and suggestions on how best to get your points across. We will of course check for correct spellings, grammar and punctuation ensuring commas are used in the correct places, speech marks, apostrophes, semi colons and correct use of wording. You will be surprised the amount of people that use there, their and they’re incorrectly along with other spellings such as affect, effect, your and you’re, amongst others.

We will suggest a structure and layout that is easy to read, neat and clear. We will suggest paragraph insertions, where there are repetitions and how to organise your information in the correct order.

As much as you might be tempted to rely on a free online essay editor or essay corrector, often these lack the ability to correct appropriately or to detect and refine nuance in the way that a human essay editor can. Our essay and paper editors offer a value-for-money way to ensure that you can submit a flawless essay.

Don’t forget we also offer a discount for students.

Are you an established or aspiring author, writer or film writer with a manuscript that needs a second pair of eyes? Proofreading and editing written work is a specialist job, and one which requires a very different skill-set than writing. Let us help you make your work truly attractive to a prospective publisher, producer or agent with our second to none manuscript editing services.

Our manuscript editors can work with you to sense-check, proofread and fine edit your manuscript for publication or submission. We know that for you this is personal; we won’t meddle with your creative intent – but can rework paragraphs to bring out imagery. Beyond the proofreading and editing you’d expect as standard to ensure there are no errors of spelling, grammar, syntax, typography and punctuation, our editors will take a reader’s eye approach, but with a level of scrutiny that will parallel that of a publisher.

Fingertips have typed and edited some very difficult manuscripts including documents that we written about 100 years ago. The writing was the old italic style and so very difficult to read. Our experienced transcribers and editors have experience in reading difficult manuscripts and we will produce a current, clear, legible document that you can store and use electronically.

If your publisher requires online submission, we can work with your manuscript in the online manuscript editor required by the publishing company.

We can work across all genres of fiction and non-fiction and academic writing. Whether your project is a short story, novel, play or film script, poetry or textbook, we can tailor our manuscript editing services and quotation to your individual requirements.

What will we check for?

• Spelling and grammar
• Grammar and syntax
• Punctuation
• Style and tone
• Abbreviations, acronyms and numbers
• Consistency in layout, font and headings
• Sentence structure and flow
• Use of correct language
• We can add comments where we think the client will need to read our opinions

How we work

When we receive your document from you, we will carefully note the instructions you have provided and when you need the editing to be completed by. We will ensure we know the style you require, where you need the paragraph indentations, which style headings and sub headings you require, if you need tables and diagrams inserted, line numbering, what font you require, whether you require British or American English and so on. We can also produce a tracked changes version in order that you can see what we have changed. We will find an editor experienced in your industry and ensure they can meet the deadline.

We can provide you with a sample to ensure you are happy with the document before we complete the whole project.

We can insert comments suggesting improvements on layout, order, structure and language.

We understand that academic editing requires specialist skills and expertise.  Our editors will apply their academic editing, language, accuracy and word processing skills to ensure your finished document is suitable for its intended use.

If you’ve come looking for freelance editing services, you’re in the right place! Fingertips has a vast team of specialist freelance editors ready to take on your work. Whether you’re an individual or business/institution, if you have a project large or small, we’re here to discuss your freelance copy editing requirements.

Our freelance copy editors come from a variety of professional backgrounds, including journalism, publishing, marketing, academia and more. As well as an eagle eye for spelling and grammatical errors, and whittling out any inaccuracies or inconsistencies. Our editors will ensure your ideas and content in your document are produced in the most effective way in order that the reader can clearly ascertain the points, stories or ideas that you are wanting to get across.

Reduce errors whilst typing

We will provide a fast turnaround edit agency service, returning to you a manuscript free from errors of spelling, punctuation and grammar. We can change the layout to suit your requirements too, whether it be indenting paragraphs, adding bullet points, or headings and sub headings and different font styles. Whether your work needs a light-touch proofread or a thorough editing, our experienced copy editors will ensure that it is accurate, well-presented and professional.

Editing experience

• Medical
• Scientific
• Academic
• Property
• Legal
• Professional, charity or corporate

Documents you may require editing

• Memoirs
• Essays
• Thesis
• Books
• Essays
• Dissertations
• CVs
• Research proposals
• Journals
• Personal statements
• Leases
• Manuals
• Play script

What will we check for?

• Spelling and grammar
• Grammar and syntax
• Punctuation
• Style and tone
• Abbreviations, acronyms and numbers
• Consistency in layout, font and headings
• We can add comments where we think the client will need to read our opinions

The book publishing industry has altered almost beyond recognition in the last 20 years, largely driven by evolutions in technology and subsequent changes in reader habits. E-readers and other devices mean that reader consumption is very different now. We at Fingertips have embraced the evolutions in book editing services.

While this initially presented challenges for the industry, it presented opportunities for smaller, niche and independent book publishers and individual authors who wanted to explore self-publishing.

The change in content consumption has also led to readers expecting a quicker and more prolific output from their favourite authors. But the best author would admit that their work is nothing without input from their book editor. As a result, the need for freelance book editors is greater than ever to enable this different way of working in the ever more competitive publishing industry.

Our freelance book editors can work with you to sense-check, proofread and fine edit your manuscript for publication or submission to a publisher.
They can help you refine your writing and ensure that your creative intent is felt across every page.

Format is not a problem, we can help pair you with an online book editor if that is how your work will be published.

We can work across all genres of fiction, non-fiction and academic writing. Whether you require booking editing services for novels, a short story, script, poetry, children’s book or textbook, we can tailor our editing services and provide a quotation to your suit individual requirements.

Types of book editing service

• Short stories
• Manuscript
• Children’s book
• Text book
• Autobiography
• Play script
• Poetry
• Copy editing services
• Memoirs
• Fictional books
• Non fiction books

We will check your manuscript or book for spellings, grammar, punctuation and layout.  We will ensure commas are used in the correct places, speech marks, apostrophes, semi colons and correct use of wording.  We will add comments and suggestions if we think there are repetitions, where we think improvements can be made and suggestions.  We will suggest a structure and layout that is easy to read, neat and clear.  We will check paragraphs are in the correct order and place, suggest deleting repetitions and inform you of our ideas.

The time and personal effort expended in researching and preparing a scientific research paper is significant; sometimes to the detriment of proofreading and attention to detail whilst typing. Scientific editing services are extremely useful for a flawless manuscript.

Don’t let errors undermine your scientific research content. Our educated and experienced science editors can ensure your article is clear, cohesive and well structured.

We can also help with proofreading and copy-editing of grant applications, books and book chapters, proposals and other articles. With your raw copy, our manuscript editing services can provide a finished article that would pass muster with the most stringent journal editor or peer reviewer.

Don’t worry if English is not your native language, our experienced editors will work with you to ensure that your article reads well and is accurate to a standard and specification of English language scientific and academic journals, without losing your original writing intent.

Our scientific editing services include a thorough check for punctuation, grammar, and edit for clarity and style and restructure paragraphs and sections, as well as ensuring technical accuracy. Regardless of your specialism, we have access to scientific editors experienced in many fields and all have scrupulous attention to detail and a common-sense approach to medical scientific paper editing.

All academics know that writing up your research is the most arduous part of the process – and the joy that comes with completion! We know that’s when the anxiety and ‘imposter syndrome’ all sets in, and what better to deal with that than engaging our research paper editing services to provide a independent extra pair of eyes.

Our research editors will refine your research paper so that it is fit for submission. We will best showcase your research concepts and arguments.

The research paper editing process corrects any errors, including grammar, spelling and punctuation,. Our research editors edit for clarity, consistency and coherence. We ensure that your work is structured and presented as well as it can be.

Any scientific or academic topic or specialty is considered. The breadth of the Fingertips’ team and their respective education, experience and expertise means that we can pair you with the most appropriate research editor for your needs.

At Fingertips, we never fear a deadline. We can turn around work in 24 hours, sometimes more quickly if required.

At Fingertips, we are acutely aware of the importance of having professional & business editing services of accuracy when it comes to building and maintaining a glowing professional reputation. We know that everything you put out to your audience, whether they’re the public, shareholders, prospective customers or other stakeholders, must be immaculately presented and without error.

Not all organisations have the scale to employ in-house professional & business editing services – that’s where we come in. You have the ideas, you gather the content, and we make sure it’s shaped up for your audience. Our professional editing services will ensure that your copy is free from errors of grammar or punctuation; but that’s not all – with an unparalleled attention to detail and flair for language, our experienced business editors will make every sentence shine.

Common uses of our professional copy editing services include:

• Annual Reports and prospectuses
• Web content
• Tenders and bids
• Articles and company magazines
• Marketing collateral – adverts, brochures and flyers.

Don’t worry if it’s not on the list, our professional editors can turn their abilities to pretty much anything!

Across the range of Fingertips’ services, we work with hundreds of household and industry names in the UK and worldwide.