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“Nicholas Editing and Rewriting” is a personal service offering you rigorous editing of academic papers and other types of drafts written in English.
From these pages you may quickly form yourself a picture of who I am and what I do. Side columns are not essential to this site but merely illustrate my thoughts on the global relevance of English, past and present.
“Nicholas Editing and Rewriting” caters to individual students, researchers and writers, as well as to collaborations and other public and private entities anywhere. I welcome authors of any level of competence in English, be they native or non-native, merely seeking to confirm their work from an additional point of view or experiencing difficulties in using English as their second “working” language.
Clearly, before any academic piece of work, composition or web page can be seriously considered in terms of its stated propositions, it must first show to conform to the conventions of written English. Let’s make sure of this because a manuscript found to be well-formed and persuasive will implicitly also be one thought to be sound in grammar, style and structure.
The distinguishing features of my service are unstinting feedback and communication right up to the resolution of every doubt and issue affecting your manuscript. You may very well expect me to be responsive beyond what can be captured and communicated through common software “tracking” functions. Furthermore, there are no surreptitious options or disguised charges. Your editor is manifestly human, up front, and fully accountable – to you.
Well, if you wish, let me help polish your manuscript and assist you in securing recognition and success in your specialty, whether on the local, domestic or global stage.Queen's English?
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While languages naturally facilitate the promotion of social and economic advancement in their local, regional and national contexts, English has the additional role of doing so on the global scale; the progress of humanity in all its aspects no longer occurs in isolation and English is the acknowledged medium for worldwide communication, collaboration and competition. Now more than ever, in fact, English is on the rise in the world, notably in China, South Korea, Japan and other parts of Asia. It has its firm place in expanding knowledge and business around the globe and it enables dialog among countries on the many dangers and problems all of us are confronted with in this interconnected world.
English, right at this moment, is being shaped by legions of speakers outside the traditionally perceived seats of English dominance. New “native speakers” can be found in places such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and elsewhere. In addition, large numbers of speakers of English as a second language are mushrooming in China and other parts of East Asia. The world-total of these new speakers is thought to be surpassing the number of those using English as their mother tongue by a ratio of as much as three to one.
If so, is Queen’s English still relevant? Yes, in the sense that it refers to intelligible written expression in the English language. Spoken English will continue its growing though ambivalent relationship with new vocabulary, idioms and accents from around the globe, but the written language, while also being enriched with new expressions, will continue to rest squarely on Queen’s English, the common corner stones of good grammar and style.
Are you curious about foreign society, its customs, conventions and scientific know-how? Are you looking for commercial challenges abroad? Is English the second language of your choice? If so, you need to start by staking your claim to the language fearlessly. Appropriate and cultivate it boldly; speak out spontaneously. Build up your treasure, then go on to polish it. Enjoy the process and make English work for yourself and the greater good.