How I Help Clients Pass Their Defense: An Editor’s Pre-Defense Checklist
Your committee has read hundreds of dissertations, but you have lived inside yours. Here is the pre-defense checklist I walk through with every client, including the quiet details advisors tend to miss, so you can walk into your defense prepared rather than braced.
I Can Hear Your Voice: That’s How I Spot Borrowed and AI Writing
Every writer has a voice, even in academic writing, and by the end of your first chapter I can hear yours. That ear is how I protect your voice, and it is how I notice when a passage drifts into someone else’s, or into AI’s. Not an accusation: a query, and a 15-minute exercise.
