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Professional editors. Considered writing on the craft.
Global English Editing is a working editing practice with a growing editorial blog on language, communication, and the reader's mind. Founded in 2014.
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- Business Insider
- The Australian Financial Review
- BRW
- Writer's Digest
- Lifehacker
- Lifehack
Students & Academics
Theses, dissertations, journal articles, essays. PhD- and Masters-level editors.
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Authors & Publishers
Book editing, proofreading, manuscript evaluation. Professional book editors.
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Businesses & Professionals
Confidential business editing and proofreading. Fast turnarounds, professional results.
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Writing on the craft of language, communication, and the reader’s mind. From the editing team.
What a glass of wine at 8pm actually does for a writer — and what it doesn't
The evening ritual promises clarity, but the voice in your head has other plans.
Someone who skips the seasonal décor every year may not be indifferent to the holiday itself, they may simply be opting out of a display aimed more at whoever walks past than at anyone who actually lives there.
Greif and Gleason's 1980 research on how children learn politeness routines found that young children almost never say "please" or "thank you" spontaneously, they say it because a parent prompts them with "what do you say?" dozens of times a week, meaning the reflex adults later display without thinking twice was built through years of someone else's prompting long before it became automatic.
Many adult children remember watching a father work sixty-hour weeks for decades so the family could have what he never did, then watched him die in his sixties without ever prioritizing his own happiness, and now see that same pattern quietly repeating in their own lives, under a different name.
Harvard researchers had 166 undergraduates rate their own pets on qualities like thoughtful, considerate and sympathetic, and the students who felt most chronically disconnected from other people scored their pets meaningfully higher on exactly those three traits, and no others.
University of Arizona researchers wired 79 people with a recorder sampling conversations every 12.5 minutes for four days and found the happiest had twice as many substantive conversations and a third as much small talk as the unhappiest, suggesting the discomfort was never a social deficit.
Meet the editors
The people below set direction, write and review for GE Editing, and stand behind the standards on this site.
Editors with credentials
Our editors hold PhDs and Masters across academic and book editing. Each piece is reviewed by an editor with subject-matter fit.
Affordable rates
Online-first operation lets us offer professional editing at a fraction of traditional agency rates without compromising quality.
Short turnarounds
Same-day and next-day delivery available on most jobs. Tight deadlines welcomed.