Academics

Specialized services for graduate students, researchers, and professors.

Academic Rigor, Editorial Precision

As a scholar, your writing isn’t just a means of communication—it’s the primary vehicle for advancing ideas, securing funding, earning credentials, and building your reputation. Flatpage offers professional academic editing services for students, researchers, and faculty working across disciplines and institutions.

Whether you’re drafting a dissertation or thesis, preparing a journal article for peer review, or revising a book manuscript for a university press, we help ensure your work is clear, compelling, and publication-ready. Our editors provide thoughtful, rigorous feedback that respects your intellectual voice while enhancing clarity, structure, and flow.

Academic writing comes with its own language, expectations, and pressures. You may be grappling with complex arguments, theoretical frameworks, or multilingual source material. You may be under pressure to meet deadlines, navigate reviewer feedback, or publish for tenure or promotion. We understand those demands because we’ve lived them.

Flatpage’s academic editors hold PhDs in a range of disciplines and bring deep experience as scholars, writers, and educators. Many have served as professors, dissertation advisors, peer reviewers, and even department chairs at leading universities in the United States and United Kingdom. Our team is uniquely equipped to help you communicate your ideas with precision and authority—without compromising on time or quality.

Whether you’re early in your graduate studies or preparing a career-defining publication, Flatpage is a trusted partner in your academic journey.

Our professional editors help authors in the humanities and social sciences, including but not limited to the following fields:

  • Art History
  • Cultural Studies & Anthropology
  • Economics
  • Film & Media Studies
  • History & History of Science
  • Languages & Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Race, Gender, & LGBTQ+ Studies
  • Sociology
  • Theatre & Performance

  • Your Flatpage Advantage

  • Elevate Your Manuscript

    Refine dissertations, theses, and book drafts for structure, coherence, and clarity of argument.

  • Prepare for Submission

    Polish journal articles and book manuscript submissions to meet the expectations of editors, reviewers, and academic publishers.

  • Preserve Your Voice

    Edit with sensitivity to discipline-specific language, scholarly tone, and your unique authorial voice.

  • Clarify Complex Ideas

    Translate dense or technical material into writing that is accessible and impactful, even across disciplines.

  • Polish for Publication

    Ensure your work meets the highest standards of academic publishing with precise, professional editing tailored to your target journal, press, or audience.

  • Meet Critical Deadlines

    Stay on track for submission, defense, or publication deadlines with fast, reliable editorial turnaround.

  • Partner with Experts

    Collaborate with editors who hold PhDs and bring deep experience in academic writing, publishing, and mentorship.

  • Dissertations & Theses

  • Journal Articles

  • Book Manuscripts

  • Conference Papers

  • Grant Applications

  • CVs & Academic Bios

  • Peer Review Responses

  • Teaching & Course Materials

  1. Coaching

    Coaching provides authors with a tailored, 1:1 experience with a trained professional who can assist in strategizing your manuscript as a whole, crafting your research into a digestible and engaging narrative, and providing accountability and moral support throughout the writing process. It’s ideal for authors who need help beyond the manuscript itself.

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  2. Developmental Editing

    Developmental editing will help you shape the content of your document so that your contribution takes center stage. Our developmental editors have served as managing editors of academic journals and published widely. We can help you shape the argument, evidence, organization, and flow of your manuscript.

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  3. Line editing

    Line editing is used to address the style of your writing so that it has maximal impact. Our line editors are experts at the craft of writing and have published widely themselves. We can help you maintain a consistent tone, improve word choice, identify text to be cut or expanded upon, and write clear sentences in native English.

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  4. Copyediting

    Copyediting involves a rinse of your manuscript, with attention to grammar, punctuation, and mechanics (i.e., conforming it to house style or manual like the Chicago Manual of Style). Whether you’re a novice or experienced writer, this service will ensure that you deliver a clean document to your respective publisher, journal editor, or advisory committee.

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  5. Proofreading

    Proofreading is the final stage in the publication process and is reserved for minor typos and consistency between manuscript sections on page proofs. By the time you are ready for a proofread, your manuscript should have already gone through a content (developmental) edit and a copyedit. This service will ensure that your manuscript is publication-ready.

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  6. Indexing

    Our trained indexers can help you create a guide to your book’s contents so that readers can find important information as quickly and easily as possible. Alongside their final read of the book’s page proofs and compilation of names, terms, and themes, the indexer will also generate a list of errata for your publisher.

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Your research, clearly communicated.

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Minimum project budget $100

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