How can College Paper Partner help you?
We provide high quality academic editing services
What does College Paper Partner do?
Academic paper development
Methodology selection, data collection, and analysis
Copy editing
Citation and style guide editing
Content editing
Graphics editing
Mentoring
Rewriting
Transcription
What does College Paper Partner do?
The mission of College Paper Partner is to provide support to undergraduate and graduate students for the most challenging papers of their academic careers—term papers, comprehensive examinations, capstone papers, master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and peer-reviewed journal articles. These papers require expertise in a variety of disciplines, qualitative and quantitative research methods, statistical analysis, creative reasoning and comprehension, and academic writing standards. College Paper Partner employs a group of highly talented referral editors who together are skilled in each of these areas.
We provide assistance with all levels of academic paper editing, from correcting style guide errors to interactive topic development.
- Academic paper development
Our editors participate interactively with students to mutually develop the content and organization of papers. This kind of reciprocity is valuable when developing research topics and primary questions, reviewing the literature, and selecting the methodology to use. Paper development in collaboration with the student’s faculty adviser is desirable, yet frequently unavailable for a variety of reasons.
- Methodology selection, data collection, and analysis
We provide support in selection and development of methodologies that students need to conduct research (qualitative and quantitative research design, experimental design, developing research questions, hypothesis testing, preparing survey instruments, and preparing surveys such as those conducted on Survey Monkey). We can advise you on data collection procedures as well as examine and analyze your data. College Paper Partner editors are specialized research methodologists and statisticians who possess technical skills to use professional software (SPSS, Graph Pad, Nvivo) to analyze your data and help you interpret the results. Our editors can help with the selection and use of appropriate statistical analysis methods for each study, such as t-tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlations, and regressions.
- Copy editing
Copy-editing (proofreading) is what most people think of when they think of editing – the technically correct use of written English. This includes spelling, capitalization, formatting, titling and subtitling, grammar, passive and active voice, punctuation, tense, and sentence structure. In addition, it includes flow, sequence, sentence length, paragraph length, word choice, and missing words.
- Citation and style guide editing
Correct source attribution is essential for scholarly writing. All assertions must be supported by credible sources and appropriately cited to avoid plagiarism. College Paper Partner can assist in conducting literature reviews by literature searches, background reading, and preparing annotated bibliographies. Our editors can make sure that both your in-text citations and your reference list are properly formatted. Furthermore, we can advise you on the credibility and appropriateness of your sources.
Academic writing typically adheres to the standards of a formal style guide, such as those organized by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), American Psychological Association (APA), American Sociological Association (ASA), Oxford, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, Harvard and others. These provide detailed guidelines for crediting sources, displaying results in figures and tables, and manuscript structure and content. We can make sure your paper adheres to the standards of whichever style guide you choose, from the title page to the appendix. In addition, some universities require their own unique style that we are sensitive to as well.
- Content editing
Content editing targets the content itself—facts, theories, questions, challenges, contradictions, inconsistencies, omissions, depth, sequencing, clarity, use of metaphors explanatory examples, comprehensibility, effective thematic development, and readership impact. Here especially, it is a rare faculty member or committee with one academic department that is knowledgeable and proficient in all of these areas even within one subdivision of one field.
- Graphics editing
Many of our clients use graphics to communicate complex relationships between study variables, such as charts, graphs, and illustrations. In addition, many students may need to present their work in oral presentations with the help of Apple Keynote and Microsoft Power Point presentations. College Paper Partner has specialist editors who can make sure that presentation graphics conform to current style guides and deliver clear, effective messages.
- Mentoring
Current and former college professors provide expert mentoring to our clients. College Paper Partner mentors can provide insight that university advisers may not be willing or able to provide, especially regarding research topic selection, research question development, proposal development, research design and methodology, chapter structures, committee selection, and response to adviser critiques. Unlike a mentor at the student’s university, College Paper Partner mentors are not required to evaluate and grade your performance, and thus are always supportive of the student’s situation and perspective.
- Rewriting
Rewriting is part of the paper editing process as drafts are iteratively given critical reviews at different stages of the paper’s development by academic advisers, theses/dissertation/research paper committee members, internal review board (IRB) members, college style guide editors, and peers that inevitably require making repeated revisions to multiple drafts by the student. A typical process involves multiple reviews prior to and subsequent to the development of a research paper proposal prior to research, and multiple reviews of the final draft after conducting the research, collecting the research data, analyzing the data, and completion of the research report. Although some projects can proceed rapidly, some of these reviews can take months and even years to complete as insights about the research take time to develop between all the parties.
- Transcription
Some research projects involve conducting face-to-face participant interviews that are digitally recorded in audio and/or video mode by the student researcher. These recordings and other self-reporting notation efforts require transcription to written format for manual and software analysis. College Paper Partner referral editors can provide these transcripts for further use by students in the analysis of these interviews.
