Natassia W.
Don’t believe the hype
I paid for editing of my thesis, and in order to ensure that it would be done to perfection. I paid for a second editor, which means I had to editors look at my work. This cost me $750 and the editing service that I received it was a high school level editing, what that means is that the edited my manuscript sentence by sentence there was no attempt to increase the flow and readability of the overall paragraphs and the manuscript in general. They instead edited sentence by sentence and spent an enormous amount of time explaining to me why they changed a sentence, instead of actually editing my work. So, for example, they would make a comments stating “verb changed to maintain consistency in sentence” those were the very minor changes they made. But they weren’t able to pick up on the fact that there were inconsistent numbers of a research subjects that I mentioned in one part of my manuscript that did not match what I said, in other parts of the manuscript. There was just no attention to detail, and for this amount of money, I expected far better work than the minor editing of of grammar that I received. There were also several instances of them making minor changes that made me question whether or not these are native English speakers because the changes were not to what one would expect from a native English speaker?.