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Carolina Academic Press Manuscript Editing Services

Order Manuscript Editing Carolina Academic Press is an independent publisher in Durham, North Carolina, with a list in law, criminal justice, and other academic fields. It publishes coursebooks and scholarly monographs. Its books are used in law schools and criminal justice programs, so a manuscript often has to serve the classroom and the scholarly field at once.

Off the Grid Editing works in Chicago style and applies the citation style your CAP editor specifies when you send it. Where legal citation sits beside scholarly citation in the same chapter, we keep each consistent within its own system. Our editors work in legal, criminal justice, and social science writing.

Human Manuscript Editor

Natural Intelligence for Carolina Academic Press

Natural Intelligence is our name for editorial judgment: an editor who reads your manuscript the way the CAP editors will and verifies every change before it comes back to you. For a coursebook, we also read as the student who will be assigned it.

Our Promise

We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Carolina Academic Press. We work with you until it is ready or refund your payment in full. That commitment has held since 2002.

Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed. Your draft is secure until you decide to proceed.

Manuscript Editing Services for Carolina Academic Press

We offer three levels of manuscript editing depending on what your manuscript needs. Each is described below so you can choose the service that fits where your draft is right now.

Manuscript Copy Editing

Grammar and usage, awkward phrasing, repetition, and passive voice corrected, then clarity, concision, sentence structure, transitions, and tone, with your style manual applied throughout and a final proofread. For authors whose argument and structure are settled.

Manuscript Line Editing

Clarity, emphasis, and paragraph structure: topic sentences, transitions, and sentences reordered within a paragraph, with every fact and claim kept as you wrote it. Includes copy editing and a final proofread.

Manuscript Proofreading

Spelling, punctuation, typos, capitalization, grammar, and usage corrected with minimal wording changes, for manuscripts that have been edited and need a last check before submission to Carolina Academic Press.

Legal and Scholarly Writing for Carolina Academic Press

The press's proposal page lists what a book proposal should include. Our editors keep legal and scholarly citation consistent and mark passages where the legal or policy implications of an argument need fuller development. If you have questions about which service is right for your manuscript, contact us directly. We respond to every inquiry the same day during business hours.

For other presses, see our page on manuscript editing for academic presses. We also offer book and manuscript editing, developmental editing, and dissertation to book editing.

Manuscript Instant Invoice

Ready to prepare your manuscript for Carolina Academic Press? Use our secure portal to generate an immediate, word-count-based quote and secure your delivery deadline.

Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed.

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Direct Support

Reach our editorial team directly to discuss your manuscript, your Carolina Academic Press submission timeline, or which service is right for your project. Initial consultations of up to 15 minutes are complimentary.