You only get one chance to make a good first impression and this is especially true in science. Clear, accurate and concise communication is essential to succeed and an our editors will ensure that your written work is easy to read and understand, meets expectations for correct English, and accurately communicates your ideas. Technical writing is difficult and time-consuming. Our services can help you to move projects forward and produce better work, sooner.
When you need additional help or specific skills, we offer a flexible workforce that you can hire to increase productivity in a cost-effective way. Use us at pinch-points when workloads spike or to overcome tasks that impede progress. If English is not your first language, we can help you overcome the barrier of technical scientific writing in English. Our overarching goal is your success and building a strong, productive relationship with you.
We specialise in cardiovascular science and medicine and know the territory. We understand the research field and terminology, the journals and funding bodies you are targeting, your audience, and the challenge of peer-review. We are PhD scientists with years of laboratory research experience. We have secured grant funding, published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Circulation, Hypertension, JACC, European Heart Journal, Journal of Physiology, etc.), obtained ethical approval for research studies in the UK and USA, and acted as ad-hoc peer-reviewers for hundreds of manuscripts. We have worked on projects funded by the NIH in the USA and the Framework 7 Programme in the EU, from basic science experiments to multi-centre clinical trials. We have edited millions of words in the full range of scientific documents. We are native English speakers who have worked in leading research universities in the USA and UK and have collaborated with scientists around the World. We are also independent of any publishing house.
No, we are human. And we are scientists too, just like you. You have likely used AI and have your own experience of it, but here is our take on it, as things stand.
Although AI is evolving and already has some uses, limitations remain. It has some power to apply rules and cross-reference your input to make suggestions, and this can be helpful for things like grammar, punctuation and vocabulary. It can also help to reduce word count by paraphrasing and detecting repetition. However, it is still dependent on user input and the underlying code that it uses. Perhaps its main drawback is that it lacks creativity and problem-solving ability, and much of good writing, like good science, comes down to creativity and problem-solving.
In our experience, AI platforms struggle with important writing considerations like tone, formality, and style, as well as understanding the mindset of peer reviewers. These are insights that come with experience, and, as things stand, AI knows the rules but lacks the experience. Similarly, AI cannot generate strategy, and a strategy for research, funding and dissemination is a vital part of what scientists do.
A hallmark of current AI is that it acts as a compiler - it gathers and summarises vast quantities of information already available on the internet. This can be immensely useful for quickly getting answers and ideas, but it is hazardous for scientific writing for several reasons. Most importantly, it is not original, but a summary of information that is already available. Because originality is essential in science, this limits the utility of AI for writing your manuscript or funding proposal. An AI platform will give you a generic summary of available information, but the chances are that your work is specific and unique, which limits the ability of AI to accurately interpret your input. You also run the risk of plagiarism because you may not know the source of the content or the extent of the paraphrasing. Perhaps more annoyingly for peer-reviewers will be the tendency to reproduce familiar content: cliched phrases, tired arguments, unoriginal ideas, boilerplate-like content, paraphrasing and 'passing-off' of familiar concepts. Finally, journals and funding bodies require you to be responsible for your writing and to declare it as your own work - being dependent on AI-generated content could cause unwanted problems down the road.
Our service is suitable for native and non-native English speakers who work in medicine, academia, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, medical imaging and measurement, healthcare and laboratory technology development, commercial laboratories, and media communication. If you are not sure if we can help you, get in touch and let us know what you have in mind.
We specialise in cardiovascular science and medicine that broadly focuses on the following: major cardiovascular diseases, diseases with vascular involvement, cardiovascular physiology, ageing, lifestyle and health, nutrition, basic science, clinical trials, healthcare devices, medical imaging, and laboratory technology. We can help with all forms of written work, presentations, data visualisation and illustration. Please ask us if you have a specific query.
We accept payment by bank transfer. In some cases we may be able to accept payment through Paypal. We will begin work as soon as you accept the price we have quoted, thereby confirming the order. Payment should normally be made before we return the work to you, unless we have agreed otherwise. In the latter case, the payment should be made within 30 days of receipt of the invoice.
You will only be charged for the words that we edit. We will normally check and edit the words in the title, short-title, abstract/summary, keywords, main body of the text, figure legends and table headings. However, you can specify exactly what you would like us to edit if you wish. We will not edit text within the tables and figures. If you send us supplementary materials, we will include those in the edit. If there is text that you do not wish us to edit, please state this when submitting your documents (or redact the words in the documents). We will not edit title page content like author lists, affiliations and contact details. We do not edit or format references unless requested as an additional service (please contact us). We will include the word count in a quote for your approval before the work commences.
We do not proofread or edit references as a standard part of the service, but this can be requested as an additional service if the references were managed using Endnote software. In this case, we will need the Endnote library used to format the references and we will edit the library and references as required. We will return the edited library to you with the manuscript for future use. Please contact us about this and let us know how many references you have in your manuscript. If you are using Mendeley to manage references, please contact us to discuss whether we can help you.
We will edit your work to try to make your message clear and accurate and reduce the potential for misunderstandings. If we are concerned about the factual accuracy of what you have written, we will query this with you (usually using the Comments function in Microsoft Word). However, the work must be your voice, your message and your responsibility. We cannot check the accuracy of your measurements, the data you report, calculations, statistical analysis, accurate and fair citation, or the validity of the underlying theory. If you have concerns about any of these aspects of your work, our consultation service may be of assistance with some of these things, but journal publishers, conference organisers and funding organisations will ask that you accept responsibility for the factual accuracy of your work before submission.
Yes. You may have noticed that this site uses British English, but we are experienced writers and editors in British and American English. The differences are subtle, but it is better to create a good impression and write in the form of English used by the journal or organisation to which you intend to submit.
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that your research proposal will be funded or that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. Our purpose is to give you the best possible chance of success by helping you to communicate your work clearly and concisely using correct English.
We can accept documents prepared in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), Rich Text (.txt), LaTeX (.tex) or Scrivener (.scrivx) file formats. Microsoft Word has the advantage that we can use the Track Changes function so that you can see the work we have done.
Images will be delivered in scalable vector graphics (.svg) format as well as raster-based/bitmap formats of your choosing (.jpeg, .png, .gif, .tiff, webp, etc.). Scalable vector graphics allow you to resize an image without loss of quality or pixelation but require software that can use this format. Please ask us if you are unsure about which format is suitable for your needs.
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