MooreAcademical

English Language Services for Chinese Academics & Students

0784 747 9453

MooreAcademical

English Language Services for Chinese Academics & Students

0784 747 9453

Proofreading


As a Chinese professional academic or student, where English is not your 1st language, writing research papers for publication or essays, dissertations and even your thesis can seem a daunting task. At MooreAcademical we can help by proofreading your work, correcting spelling, punctuation, grammar and referencing. The most common errors our editors encounter include:

  • When and when not to use "the"
  • Use of similar sounding words but with entirely different meanings. For example the word "plant" was used throughout a 15,000 word dissertation where it should have been "planet"
  • Incorrect tense. For example, in abstracts we often see "This study find that..." instead of "This study found that"
  • Confusing singular and plural forms. For example, "We repeated the test ten time." Should read "We repeated the test ten times"
  • onstructing sentences that are essentially lists, which makes reading quite tedious, rather than using, for example, transition words such as "however", "nevertheless", "on the other hand" to link sentences
  • Repeating statements that have already been established
  • Incorrect, or even nonexistent, use of references to back up statements

Academic papers written in poor English are unlikely to be published in major journals. For students, it is usually the case that a proportion of the marks for assignments are allocated to the quality of English, structure and referencing. Our proofreading can help you gain these extra marks!