Services & Rates

 

I am available to edit and translate documents (double-spaced essays and theses, cover letters, resumes, applications, etc) as well as provide longer-term private tutoring sessions on phone or Skype.

Rates

Papers: $15 per 250 words (A wordcount ranging from 0-375 would be considered 250 words. 376-675 words would be considered 500 words, etc).

Phone/Skype consultations: $15 per half hour.  (Anything under 45 min. is considered a half hour)

Feel free to contact me for a consultation or free sample edit of your paper (essay, thesis, paper, or any written document over 5 pages long). I will gladly look over 1 page for free, and provide you with some general feedback/commentary and tips for improvement before you decide to commit to the full edit.

I offer editing services in two forms:

Online editing:

  1. Email me your paper and let me know what you would like me to do for you:
    1. Proofreading: I will check your paper for grammar, structure, spelling, formatting, and related errors, but will not focus on style or content.
    2. Edit*: I will give your paper a complete edit, not only correcting grammar, punctuation, spelling, and formatting errors, but also style and fluency issues.
    3. Chinese-to-English Translation: Please specify what kind of translation you would like me to do. For example, is your work a story, poem, article? Do you want a word-for-word or thought-for-thought translation? (See this article for definitions of “word-for-word” and  “thought-for-thought” translations, and this page for sample translations)
  2. I will edit/proofread/translate the paper and send it back to you within 3 business days from the day I received the paper.
  3. If you have any questions regarding any of my comments/suggestions/etc., I will respond to reasonable questions (ex: “what do you mean by this comment?” NOT “can you rewrite my intro paragraph for me?”) within the next 2 business days.

Phone/Skype Consultations:

  1. If you would prefer to talk to me about your paper, let me know what times work best for you, and whether you think you would like a half-hour consultation, a full hour, or more (you can change your mind, this is just an estimate).
  2. Email your paper to me at least three business days before our scheduled call.
  3. I will send it back to you with comments at least one business day before the call, so you can look over it and decide what questions you’d like to ask.
  4. During the call, you can ask me whatever questions you wish, and/or I can go through each comment with you one at a time until we cover everything you wish to know, or we hit your requested time limit.

 

To see a sample of my work, use the tabs above, or click here for a sample one-time essay edit, and here for a sample of my Chinese-to-English translation work.

To request editing/translation services, or more information about the process, please contact me through this website, or email me at sarahseslwriting@gmail.com

I look foward to working with you!

~Sarah

 

*Note to students: I am happy to thoroughly proofread and edit your papers and provide helpful comments and suggestions. Some of these suggestions may include sample rewritten phrases or sentences. I would caution students against using these verbatim. My goal is to help you become a better writer, not to write your paper for you, and your teachers and professors would likely consider it academically dishonest for you to use these samples as your own work.