Editing by academics, for academics
Scientific Editing Service
Clark Scientific Editing offers non-native English speakers an online scientific editing service for manuscripts in the field of the biomedical sciences. In addition to improving the quality of the English, Clark Scientific Editing will look for any discrepancies in the manuscript from a scientific viewpoint. Although the majority of work involves editing manuscripts, Clark Scientific Editing also handles conference abstracts, poster presentations, and grant proposals.
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Editing Process
Clark Scientific Editing works with electronic manuscripts sent as email attachments. The corrections are made directly into the manuscript and the corrected version returned to the client. To allow the client to see all of the corrections made to the manuscript, the ‘Track Changes’ option under the Tools menu of Microsoft Word will be enabled. Using this option, the manuscript can be viewed on the screen and/or printed either displaying or hiding the corrections. When the corrections are displayed, deleted text appears red in colour with ‘strikethrough’ (e.g. “the supernatants were stored frozen at –80oC”), and inserted text is red in colour and underlined (e.g. “incubations were performed at room temperature”). Using the ‘Track Changes’ option, each correction can be accepted or rejected at the client's discretion. Any queries/comments for the client will be in bold, enclosed in square brackets, and highlighted in yellow (e.g. “The homogenate was centrifuged at 2000 ´ g at 4oC. [Please insert the length of time for this centrifugation step.]”).
An example is shown below:
Original text
Tissue sections was immunostained by avidin-biotin-peroxidase method. Sections were treated with 3% H2o2 in PBS for 20 min to destroy endogeneous peroxidase activity. It was not necessarily blocking of non-specific binding sites.
Edited version with ‘Track Changes’ in the mode ‘Highlight changes on screen’
Tissue sections waswere immunostained by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase method. Sections were treated with 3% H2Oo2 in PBS for 20 min to destroy endogeneous peroxidase activity. It was not necessarily bBlocking of non-specific binding sites was not necessary. [Please check that the previous sentence retains the desired meaning.]
Edited version without showing changes
Tissue sections were immunostained by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase method. Sections were treated with 3% H2O2 in PBS for 20 min to destroy endogenous peroxidase activity. Blocking of non-specific binding sites was not necessary. [Please check that the previous sentence retains the desired meaning.]
Final version after the client has removed queries/comments
Tissue sections were immunostained by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase method. Sections were treated with 3% H2O2 in PBS for 20 min to destroy endogenous peroxidase activity. Blocking of non-specific binding sites was not necessary.
