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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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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.

Communication

Since 2000, Northwestern Medicine has tracked 290 volunteers over age 80 using a 15-word memory test, and after 25 years the ones who still score like adults in their fifties and sixties turn out to share one habit above the rest: close, frequent contact with other people.

After tracking cognitive superstars in their eighties for 25 years, researchers found the one thing they all have in common—and it isn't what you'd expect.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 15
Communication

The habit of stacking your own plates and wiping up your own mess before leaving a restaurant table costs nothing and asks nothing of anyone else, which is probably why it stands out so clearly to the people whose job is cleaning up after everyone who doesn't.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 14
Communication

Harvard researchers who followed men from late adolescence into old age found that the way they learned to cope with difficult emotions mattered decades later: men who relied on less adaptive psychological defenses in midlife tended to have poorer physical health in old age

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 14
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.

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 14
Communication

Some habits can follow a difficult childhood, but none can prove a person’s history

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 13
Communication

A national survey found that the share of men with no close friends rose from 3% in 1990 to 15% in 2021—but it did not identify retirement as the cause

Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 13

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.