Manuscript Editing for RAND Corporation Reports

RAND is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, and it publishes the work of its own researchers: reports, research briefs, and tools, more than 10,000 of them available on its website. The research reaches decision-makers in defense, health, education, and other policy fields. RAND applies published standards for high-quality, objective research and analysis to its research products, with guidance for product review.

Off the Grid edits for RAND researchers and coauthors preparing reports for RAND's publication process, and for policy researchers elsewhere who write reports to a comparable standard. The work is sentence-level. We keep your analysis exactly as you wrote it while making the findings readable for a decision-maker who may read only the summary, and we check that tables, figures, and text agree with each other.

RAND's research and commentary page lists its published research products. Off the Grid works in Chicago style or APA, as your report calls for, and applies RAND's own guidelines when you send them. Our editors mark passages where a policy implication should be stated more directly for a decision-maker. 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 academic presses, see our page on manuscript editing for academic presses. We also offer book and manuscript editing, developmental editing, and dissertation to book editing.