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Rutgers University Press Manuscript Editing Services

Order Manuscript Editing Rutgers University Press publishes socially engaged scholarship. Its lists include women's and gender studies, Latino studies, Asian American studies, Caribbean and Latin American studies, criminology, American studies, higher education, and the history of education, and its Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series carries its public health titles.

Off the Grid Editing prepares manuscripts for Rutgers University Press submissions in Chicago style, or APA for social science and education manuscripts, and applies Rutgers guidelines when you send them. Many of these books argue in two registers at once, one scholarly and one public. We edit so both hold.

Human Manuscript Editor

Natural Intelligence for Rutgers University Press

Natural Intelligence is our name for editorial judgment: an editor who reads your manuscript the way Rutgers acquisitions editors and peer reviewers will and verifies every change before it comes back to you. The scholarly argument and the social stakes are read together. Track Changes stays on throughout.

Our Promise

We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Rutgers University 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 Rutgers University 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 Rutgers University Press.

Socially Engaged Scholarship for Rutgers

Rutgers University Press manuscripts often make scholarly arguments whose implications reach practice, policy, and social change. Our editors make sure the social stakes are stated clearly and the academic argument stays connected to them, and we edit for the accessibility a socially engaged list calls for. Send any author guidelines you have. Rutgers University Press lists its editors by subject on its manuscript submissions page. 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 more, see our pages on manuscript editing for all academic presses, book and manuscript editing services, developmental editing, and dissertation to book editing.

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

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