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Checklists, templates, guides, and a quick quiz — built from 15+ years of editing dissertations and academic books. Free to use, yours to keep. No dollar required to start.
APA 7 Reference List Audit Checklist
Catch the reference-list errors that get dissertations sent back.
The systematic pass I run on every reference list — the same checks, laid out so you can run them yourself before you submit.
APA 7 Starter Template
The formatting essentials, already done — just start writing.
A free, pre-formatted APA 7 starter in Word: margins, spacing, and heading styles set up for you, so you can focus on the writing.
Are You Ready for Editing?
Two minutes to see where your manuscript stands.
A quick self-check on whether your draft is ready for a copyedit — with honest, specific next steps whatever your result.
Trading Files Safely
One file, one editor, one direction — never lose a week of work.
How to move your chapters between you, your editor, and your committee without anything getting overwritten, scrambled, or done twice.
What a Professional Academic Editor Actually Does
What you're really paying for — and what to expect.
A plain look at what a professional editor does (and doesn't), so you know what good editing looks like before you hire anyone.
Spotting AI-Generated Text in Scholarly Writing
Is it AI — or just careful writing?
The markers an editor and journal reviewer uses to tell AI-generated from human scholarly prose — soft tells to hard evidence, with a fair way to act.
10 Ways to Publish Your Dissertation
Your dissertation is a treasure chest — here are ten doors out of it.
Ten real routes from a finished dissertation into published work — article, monograph, trade book, and beyond.
Write with Clarity and Confidence
Plain, practical habits for clearer scholarly prose.
Small, repeatable moves that make academic writing easier to read — and easier to write.
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