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.
Editorial work featured in
- 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.
People who grew up in the 1970s often weren't taught to name what they felt — which may be why so many of them still find action easier to offer than words
A generation raised on do, not discuss, now struggles to name the emotional lives their own children are learning to articulate.
"I'm sorry you feel that way" sounds like an apology, but research breaking down what makes an apology actually work found that phrases which avoid naming the offense or taking responsibility for it are consistently rated as less sincere, regardless of how sorry the tone sounds.
Overapologising isn't always a sign of low confidence — sometimes it's what happens when someone spent years in rooms where keeping the peace felt like survival
Opening a disagreement with "not to be rude, but" or "no offense" doesn't erase the offense that follows, linguists who study these softening phrases have found they signal the speaker already knows what's coming next isn't going to land well.
Parents who can't stop offering advice to their adult children aren't always being controlling — sometimes they just haven't found another way to feel useful to the person they love most
Cornell sociologist Karl Pillemer's national survey found that 8% of Americans have cut off contact with a sibling entirely, and traced most of these ruptures back to childhood patterns like parental favoritism and harsh parenting rather than a single adult falling-out
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.