Academic Copyediting Service
I am an experienced copyeditor of academic materials and offer copyediting services for dissertations, manuscripts, grant proposals, book proposals, and more. I am particularly proficient in Chicago style, APA style, and AMA style, although I am not a good fit for extremely technical medical papers. Please get in touch to discuss specific rates. However, depending on the topic, level of editing needed, length of the project, timeline, and other factors, the cost of editing an article is likely to fall between $150 and $500. This includes two “passes” (i.e., I edit the article, send it back to you with queries, and then complete a final edit to tie up any loose ends).
Please note that I do not currently edit article manuscripts in the fields of public health/preventive medicine and related fields to avoid conflicts of interest.
Job Market Materials – Editing & Advice
Going on the academic job market for the first (or second, or third) time? I’m familiar with the grind. I’ve helped edit the job market materials for scholars who have gone on to get assistant professorship offers from institutions such as Rice University, Rutgers University, and other R1 schools as well as more teaching-focused institutions, in addition to making it to the job talk (or equivalent) stage at Cornell, Kenyon, and the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Your university might offer a writing center for edits, and that might be fine for cleaning up grammar or formatting mistakes in your job market materials. But there’s a lot they probably won’t catch: that sentence in the third paragraph of your cover letter that screams “grad student” when it should shout “colleague,” teaching statements that seem innocuous to you but may offend the committee, an opportunity you haven’t taken in the research statement to make your project really pop with a visceral image that will convey the importance of your work and make you stick in the reader’s mind.
I currently offer Job Market Materials packages at two levels (updated with 2024-2025 academic job market season prices) as well as an “a la carte” option:
Basic Academic Job Market Materials Editing Package:
- One initial edit of your Cover Letter, Teaching Statement, Research Statement, Diversity Statement & CV
- Two follow-up edits of the cover letter tailored for specific institutions/applications
- Notes with suggestions/advice on your overall angle as well as specific suggestions on things to highlight or de-emphasize in your application
The cost of this package is $350. If you want to know more about this package or start working with me, please get in touch.
Enhanced Academic Job Market Materials Editing Package:
- One initial edit of your Cover Letter, Teaching Statement, Research Statement, Diversity Statement & CV
- Up to 20 follow-up edits of all materials as adjusted to fit with specific programs
- Includes edit of a Research Proposal for postdoctoral programs – these are generally different than Research Statements for faculty positions.
- Notes with suggestions/advice on your overall angle as well as specific suggestions on things to highlight or de-emphasize in your application
The cost of this package is $1350. If you want to know more about this package or start working with me, please get in touch.
À la Carte Academic Job Market Materials Editing:
I approach à la carte job market materials editing with the same care I give to package work. Costs for à la carte job market materials editing are $80/piece, up to 2 pages per piece; CV up to 10 pages. (Aside from CV, job market materials should rarely be more than 2 pages long.) If you’re interested in à la carte job market materials editing, please get in touch.
Email: saramcadorykim@gmail.com
X: @saramcadorykim