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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- 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.
Cornell researcher Vanessa Bohns has spent years studying why people agree to requests they'd rather decline, and her research consistently finds that people dramatically overestimate the social cost of saying no, which means most of the exhaustion of over-committing gets paid for a consequence that was never really on the table
We exhaust ourselves declining requests that rarely come with the social penalties we imagine—a pattern so consistent it rewrites what we think we know about overcommitment.
People who answer texts instantly aren't always the most invested, they're often the ones who've replaced waiting, wondering, and rereading with a single quick reply
Someone who won't admit their attraction may not be hiding it out of dishonesty, they may simply be flirting in a style — polite, playful, or reserved — that doesn't match the cues people expect to see
Chronic sleep deprivation doesn't just leave someone tired, sleep researchers have repeatedly found it lowers scores on the same attention, memory, and reasoning tasks used to estimate cognitive performance
People who start each morning mentally rehearsing everything that could go wrong aren't just anxious, they're running a form of self-talk that psychologist Ethan Kross's research on the inner voice links to prolonged stress and worse daily mood regulation
People who bounce back from setbacks quickly aren't the ones who never struggle, they're often the ones who explain the setback differently — as temporary and specific rather than permanent and all-consuming, the exact pattern Martin Seligman's decades of research on explanatory style links to resilience
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.