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.

Language & Intelligence

Harvard Business School researchers studied more than 2,000 real speed-dating conversations among 110 daters and found that people who kept turning the topic back to themselves, instead of asking even one follow-up question, were the ones routinely read as having weaker social skills.

The secret to making a great first impression has nothing to do with how interesting you are.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 17
Creative Process

Ask a woman in her sixties what she wants to do with a free Saturday, and many go quiet, not for lack of preferences, but because decades of quietly editing their own desires to match someone else's have left them without an easy way back to what was theirs to begin with.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 16
Communication

Economists studying happiness data from more than 130 countries found that well-being typically bottoms out around age 47 or 48, then rises again through later adulthood — meaning the average happiness curve often improves well beyond midlife rather than continuing to decline with age.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 16
Communication

Psychologists at the University of Texas sent strangers to size up 177 bedrooms and offices using nothing but the objects left behind, and the tidiest, most deliberately arranged rooms almost always turned out to belong to the most conscientious person who lived or worked there.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 16
Reading & Books

9 cities that inspired the world's most famous novels

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 15
Communication

Stanford researchers who tracked how people's social circles change with age found that older adults don't lose the ability to make friends — they simply get pickier, deliberately keeping fewer relationships that feel meaningful and letting the rest go, a shift linked to higher emotional well-being, not less

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 15

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.