Service
Manuscripts in the following categories are welcome for revision -
- research (IT, medical, applied science, humanities)
- enterprise
- essay writing
- education (secondary, tertiary)
- technical instruction
- personal documentation
- website content
- creative work
If in doubt about the type of service offered, kindly enquire.
I will revise your paper for clarity and coherence, keeping in mind purpose, target audience and any special style requirements you may have, e.g., MLA, EU English or official Australian English. From straightforward proofreading and subtle improvements in expression to substantive reconstruction, every review will address questions such as these:
- Is the manuscript free from distraction and ambiguity?
- Have you checked for needless complexity and redundancy?
- Are the arguments clearly addressed and sequenced?
- Are figures and charts appropriately captioned and placed?
- Do your references follow a uniform notation?
- Does your abstract reflect your findings concisely?
In ongoing consultation with you, your product will be finalized in plain, contemporary English and matched to the expectations you yourself have set for it.
A world mind?
Networking the human mind. (Photo: Hispanically Speaking News, March 29, 2011)
Globalization is often narrowly understood as the integration of national economies. As such, it is fiercely debated in its positive and negative aspects as well as frequently attacked for its failings. Looking more closely, though, globalization seems to point to a quite broad convergence of cultures around the globe. Science, technology and finance, the world’s centers of production and markets, and above all, ideas and people are all participants in this process.
The rise in innovative regional specialization, at once sustained by global interdependence while also enhancing it, is having profound effects on present world economies and markets. Among these effects are positive ones like personal empowerment and remarkable financial benefits but also the threat and the reality of financial instability, the battle for scarce resources, adverse effects on wages and income distribution, the depletion of domestic manufacturing and even local or regional collapse.
Given this confluence of diversity and the necessity to deal with the flood of demands and failings that come with it, it may be appropriate to view English as an increasingly “multicultural” language rather than the exclusive property of the populations speaking it natively. In view of the dramatically growing numbers of learners of the language throughout Southeast and East Asia, and given the acute demand in those areas even for non-native teachers of the language, regional spoken varieties are on the rise while the international standard of written English is also likely to encounter more or less subtle pressures for change. As a result, English, equipped as it is with the traditional ability to absorb, adapt and change, may have a deep effect on the collective network of the world mind. Some evidence for this may be seen in the fact that 80% of the world’s digital information on the Internet is in English.
Whatever opinion one may hold on globalization and the future of the English language, the fact is that current tendencies will continue, with a premium likely to be awarded to those among us who make the most of both