English Language Editors – An Important Part of the Writers’ Personalities

English Language Editors – An Important Part of the Writers’ Personalities

When works of literature achieve fame their writers receive praise, celebrity and remuneration. However, the editors

who worked behind the scenes have an equally important contribution, despite not achieving the same level of recognition.

Here, we offer a list of editors who had worked with famous authors, and demonstrated how their services should never be underestimated.

1. Max Perkins
Arguably the most famous editor in English literature history, Perkins had worked with many famous writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest

Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe. He even has an award winning book written in dedication to his relationship with Thomas Wolfe – Max Perkin: Editor of Genius.

2. Ezra Pound
Pound was not only T.S. Eliot’s editor, but also Eliot’s emotionally supportive friend.

3. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Higginson is often credited with the introduction of Emily Dickinson into the world of poetry, allowing generations to enjoy and experience her rich expressions.

4. Edward Bulwer Lytton
A friend of Charles Dickens, Lytton’s suggestions have always worked for Dickens’ works. Despite having differing opinions over certain works,

 they maintain a close relationship; Dickens even named his youngest son after Edward –Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens.

They had their differences over some works but nonetheless the editor’s suggestion always worked for him.

5. Max Brod
Against Franz Kafka’s last wishes, Brod published his late friend’s works, giving the world masterpieces such as The Metamorphosis.

6. Michael Pietsch
Known for his many contribution towards David Foster Wallace’s works, Pietsch once mentioned “Editing with a writer

 is a joyous collaboration-not even a collaboration but a conversation, a colloquy, a back and forth”.

7. Ted Hughes
Hughes edited and published Sylvia Plath’s work after her death, despite being accused of being responsible for her death.

To stand a better chance of being published, it is always best to hire a professional English language editor to review your document before

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Hiring the Best Manuscript Editing Service

Hiring the Best Manuscript Editing Service

To be published in an established journal, your document must be well-edited. Most journal publications set high standards and strict requirements for articles they accept. 

This can be challenging for authors, especially those who use English as a second language. Therefore, it is always best to hire a professional manuscript editing service to polish your document.

There are many online English editing companies that provide manuscript editing services at affordable fees. However, you must only hire a reliable service provider to ensure that you get good service.

Below are some pointers that will help you hire the best service provider:

Native English Speakers

When choosing an editing service provider, look for companies that are based in English-speaking countries like Australia, United Kingdom and United States.

These companies employ editors who are native English speakers to review documents. This ensures the language quality of the revised document.

Subject Experts

Always hire a service provider that employs subject matter professionals. This ensures that the editors are experienced and qualified to review the manuscript’s content.

Editors who are knowledgeable in the subject will make appropriate changes to the document.

Feedbacks and Testimonials

Choose a manuscript editing company that offers support and guidance even after the final document is delivered. Check 

the reviews and look for clients’ testimonials to determine if the company offer quality services.

Turnaround Time and Fees

A professional editing service provider delivers the revised article on or before the agreed deadline. Reputable editing providers will also provide a transparent breakdown of the fees.

Keep these factors in mind when hiring a manuscript editing service provider. OnLine English is one of the leading editing companies today. The company has served satisfied clients worldwide for twenty years.

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The Right Place to Write?

The Right Place to Write?

Mark Twain finishing a chapter?

NIU’s thesis and dissertation writing group, Write Place/Write Time, met yesterday from 6 to 9 p.m. for our first fall meet-up. Four of us convened in our clean, well-lighted place—reserved every second Thursday—next to the Fourth Floor East windows in Founders Memorial Library. After greeting and chatting briefly, we each got down to business: composing in a quiet environment largely removed from everyday distractions. A great experience!

Writing alongside others working on projects similar to your own has many benefits: structure, support, accountability, and a spirit of healthy competition (in the positive sense suggested by the Latin roots of compete: com- ‘together’ + petere ‘to strive’). In previous posts, this blog has featured excellent overviews of Write Place/Write Time and its benefits in the context of one dissertator's routine and schedule (May 20, 2016, and December 4, 2015). Here I’d like to add a bit more on the topic of the places where successful writing happens through sharing of a few pieces of literary trivia.

Other Writers, Other Places

Virginia Woolf once famously said, to be able to write one needs money and a room of one’s own (in reference to women writing fiction in Shakespeare’s day). As any grad student can tell you, she was right about the money part.  But what about that other part? Is a room of one’s own the optimal setting for good writing?

Georges Simenon--
I think he's the guy at the desk.

Settings you can’t call your own may very well feature all manner of unhelpful distractions. Perhaps that’s why Belgian novelist Georges Simenon strongly favored working in a room just for him. Creator of hundreds of detective novels, Simenon was “perhaps the most widely published author of the 20th century,” according to his official website. Simenon would reportedly complete a novel in about eleven days of isolated, non-stop writing. He would take breaks to eat and sleep, but during these writing stints he would speak to no one, take no phone calls, and never leave his room (Salgado 66). No word on whether he ever considered grad school.

Writing in your own space may help foster constructive writing methods. In his later years, as pictured above, Mark Twain apparently preferred to write in his bedroom while still in bed. Twain isn’t the only successful author who developed a fancy for horizontal composing. The approach has been taken up more recently by DeKalb High School graduate, novelist, and Stanford professor Richard Powers.

Richard Powers: Standing up at Stanford.

In a 2003 interview in The Paris Review, Powers related that his dream “has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.” Perhaps this method is worth exploring. 

Just as memorable and worth considering is Ernest Hemingway’s habit of writing in his bedroom while standing up. A fascinating portrait of Hemingway’s work habits appears in this 1958 interview in The Paris Review.


Summing Up: Write Place/Write Time

Ernest Hemingway thinking on his feet.

Certainly all writers need some sort of combination of place and time in order to get their writing done. May the above anecdotes and reading links refresh some of your ideas about writing, help you rethink places where your best writing happens, and inspire you to get back to it.

And remember: a room of our own is available every second Thursday in the library. We hope to see you there. Until then, happy writing!

                             Work Cited

Salgado, Gamini.  “The Novelist at Work.”  Novels and Novelists: A Guide to the World of Fiction.   Ed. Martin Seymour-Smith.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1980.  Print.

Thesis Office Outreach: Presentations, Workshops, Brown Bags

Thesis Office Outreach: Presentations, Workshops, Brown Bags

Two weeks into February, and here at the Thesis Office we’re ready to deliver our spring presentations, workshops, and brown bag sessions for writers at any stage of the thesis or dissertation process.  Below we give a rundown of what’s on offer over the next several weeks.  We look forward to seeing you!

Basic Info
Our programs are free.  Brown bags meet Wednesdays from 12 to 1 p.m. in Adams Hall, Room 103.  Workshops and most presentations will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. in the same location on Tuesdays or Thursdays, but note that two presentations (Writing a Dissertation in Education and Demystifying the Submission Process) will take place on different days and at different times and locations—see below. 

Registration
No registration required for brown bags.  Registration is required for a presentation or workshop.  Register via email at thesis@niu.edu.  Include the name of the presentation or workshop you want to attend in the subject line or message.  We do have space limitations.  Register early! 

What to Expect
Plenty of important information.  Many who experience these events walk away a bit surprised at the intricacies behind things like meeting various deadlines, submitting the proper paperwork to the proper place, or formatting the long document.  Expect thorough coverage of common concerns as well as ample time to address individual questions.   

Presentations

Thesis Essentials
Tuesday, February 21 (2 to 4 p.m. in Adams Hall, Room 103)
Designed for all master’s students enrolled in 699 in any department.  Staff will walk students through the Graduate School’s specific requirements for theses and cover a wide range of the most troublesome issues thesis writers frequently encounter.
  
Dissertation Essentials
Wednesday, February 22 (2 to 4 p.m. in Adams Hall, Room 103)
Designed for all doctoral students enrolled in 799 in any department.  Staff will walk students through the Graduate School’s specific requirements for dissertations and cover a wide range of the most troublesome issues dissertation writers frequently encounter.

Writing a Thesis in Engineering
Thursday, February 23 (2 to 4 p.m. in Adams Hall, Room 103)
Designed specifically for thesis writers enrolled in thesis-credit hours in the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology.  Staff will walk students through the Graduate School’s specific requirements for theses and cover a range of issues that students in engineering fields often find troublesome.

Writing a Dissertation in Education
Saturday, February 25 (9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at NIU Naperville, Room 162)
This one-day program is designed specifically for dissertation writers enrolled in 799 in the College of Education.  Staff will walk students through the Graduate School’s specific requirements for dissertations and cover a wide range of the most troublesome issues dissertation writers in Education frequently encounter.

Demystifying the Submission Process
Wednesday, March 8 (5 to 7 p.m. in Wirtz Hall, Room 104)
This presentation is for graduate students preparing to submit a thesis or dissertation to the Graduate School for May 2017 graduation.  Carolyn Law, Thesis/Dissertation Advisor, will walk students through the steps of the process: defense, electronic submission, and final approval.

Workshops
ASME Documentation
Tuesday, February 28 (2 to 4 p.m. in Adams Hall, Room 103)
This hand-on workshop will teach the documentation style of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, known as ASME journal style.  Using real-word examples, students will apply the principles in real time to their own writing.  ASME journal style is ideal for research documentation in all departments of the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology.

Problems in Theses/Dissertations: Tables/Figures/Pagination 
Wednesday, March 1 (2 to 4 p.m. in Adams Hall, Room 103)
This hands-on workshop is designed to help writers comply with the Graduate School’s requirements for tables, figures, and pagination.  Students should bring their work in progress on their own laptops.  Staff will cover the specific format requirements, demonstrate helpful techniques and short-cuts in Microsoft Word, and allow generous time for individual troubleshooting and one-on-one consultation.

Brown Bag Sessions 
Committee Relations
Wednesday, February 15 (12 to 1 p.m. in Adams Hall, Room 103)
Informal discussion on choosing committee members, creating productive working relationships with them, maintaining good communications, and managing feedback throughout the process.  Graduate School policies regarding committees will be reviewed.  Faculty and students welcome.

Breaking Through Writer's Block (and Other Obstacles)
Wednesday, February 22
(12 to 1 p.m. in Adams Hall, Room 103)
Informal discussion on common obstacles that slow or entirely halt progress on one’s thesis or dissertation.  Carolyn Law, Thesis/Dissertation Advisor, will facilitate the discussion and offer practical strategies.  Students only, please.

The Balancing Act: A Life in Grad School
Wednesday, March 1
(12 to 1 p.m. in Adams Hall, Room 103)
Informal discussion on the complexities of managing life as a graduate student, balancing family responsibilities, personal health, outside work, and the pressures of a dissertation or thesis.  Session will be facilitated by Thesis Office GA Robyn Byrd, doctoral candidate and mother of two.  Students only, please. 

What to look for when hiring a document editing service provider

What to look for when hiring a document editing service provider

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