An editing house. An editorial publication.

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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Students & Academics

Theses, dissertations, journal articles, essays. PhD- and Masters-level editors.

Authors & Publishers

Book editing, proofreading, manuscript evaluation. Professional book editors.

Businesses & Professionals

Confidential business editing and proofreading. Fast turnarounds, professional results.

Editorial

Writing on the craft of language, communication, and the reader’s mind. From the editing team.

Creative Process

Describing a life as busy and in demand isn't only a complaint — consumer researchers studying status signaling found that busyness can function as a badge, because people often read a packed schedule as evidence that someone is competent, scarce, and wanted by others.

The performance of exhaustion has become our most coveted status symbol, signaling that we are needed, competent, and scarce.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 14
Communication

The signs of a hard childhood rarely look dramatic by adulthood, therapists who work with trauma survivors say; more often it is a habit of apologizing before speaking, flinching at a raised voice that was never aimed at them, or checking that everyone else is okay before letting themselves relax.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 13
Communication

A national survey found that the share of men reporting they have no close friends at all climbed from 3 percent in 1990 to 15 percent by 2021, with the steepest rise showing up right around the age most men leave the workforce

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 13
Language & Intelligence

People who apologize before anyone's said what's wrong may be doing more than displaying extra manners — research on parentification has found that children who grow up feeling responsible for a parent's emotional state can carry that habit of anticipating, managing, and taking responsibility for other people's feelings into their adult relationships, long after the household that taught it is gone.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 13
Communication

There are things about a life that are worth keeping to yourself even with people you trust completely, not because there is anything shameful in them, but because privacy is one of the few forms of ownership nobody can take from you once you have given it away.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 12
Communication

Researchers on self-regulated learning have found that effective learners do for themselves much of the checking a teacher might otherwise supply — setting goals, monitoring what's working, and changing strategy when it isn't — and that habit can make them better at adapting when they run into a problem they haven't seen before.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 12

Meet the editors

The named editors who oversee editorial direction, review articles before publication, 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.