EDITORIAL SERVICES

Ampersand Blue is a boutique editorial service offering individualized support to authors and workshops on scholarly publishing. We are a small team with strong professional backgrounds in writing, editing and publishing in university settings in Asia, and we draw on decades of professional experience helping authors prepare manuscripts in English. Our editorial packages help authors understand writing for publication in English-language academic journals. We evaluate manuscripts from the perspective of a journal editor or publisher, and provide suggestions about organization, sentence-level writing, and the narrative flow of a manuscript. We offer four editorial packages as described below.

Complimentary Assessments

Editorial decisions begin with titles, abstracts, introductory paragraphs, and conclusions. As an introductory offer, we provide free assessments of these elements in manuscripts written for scholarly journals, calling attention to reasons a manuscript might be rejected. This information allows authors to deal with potential issues before submitting sending their work to an editor. To learn more please contact Ampersand Blue Editorial Services: AmpersandBlue25@gmail.com

Free of Charge

Evaluation of Completed Manuscripts

The Ampersand Blue editorial team provides two sample referee's reports evaluating the structure of a manuscript and the presentation of information and analysis with a focus on shaping and developing an argument. We provide written reports highlighting writing issues and offer ideas for addressing them. After providing the report, we will arrange an online session with the author to discuss the manuscript and our comments.

Remedial Editing

Editors routinely ask authors to “revise and resubmit” their manuscripts based on referees’ reports. While this response shows serious interest, reworking a completed article can be extremely difficult. Discussing the concept and presentation of material and the comments of the referees with an experienced editor can help a writer deal with the changes an editor expects. We offer authors written evaluations and online discussions based on the feedback they have received.

Advanced Copy Editing

Academic writing often contains unnecessary words and circumlocutions that interfere with communication. We can improve English-language manuscripts by removing words and phrases that are not needed, improving sentence structures and word choices, eliminating passive voice, and making other editorial changes so that a manuscript reads naturally and meets professional standards.