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Expertise
I have been a professional writer and editor for more than 30 years, taught speech and English composition at the university level, and have developed speech and English composition courses and seminars for businesses. I am experienced in editing a wide variety of materials, especially business, scientific, and other academic papers. I am familiar with all the major style guides.
Experience in the area
I have edited any number of graduate papers and other technical materials in such advanced fields as civil and electrical engineering and semiconductor fabrication. I have extensive experience in working with non-native English speakers.
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Recent Answers from Dan Smith
2009-10-15 college writting:
Your instructor should have given you instructions on how the report should be formatted. Ask him or her for guidance. Other than that, I can't suggest anything other than put your name, report title
2009-10-12 articles in journals:
1. No. For example, Einstein as a Swiss patent clerk when he submitted his articles. 2. I am not aware of charges by true, peer-reviewed academic journals. But each journal will have its own rules for
2009-09-02 hi:
Generally, you should not use contractions in formal writing exercises. If you insist, they need apostrophes in the right places: "won't". Be sure and separate the phrases in compound sentences with
2009-07-04 subject-object complement:
I regard such disagreements as entirely incorrect. I don't write such sentences. In the case of the boys, the correct construction would be, "The boys were driven to the hospital because one of them
2009-06-03 Fee:
I charge by the piece. I'd need for you to send it to me and let me take a look. Then, I would give you a firm price before you are committed to anything. I have to do it that way because the difficulty
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