It is a secret of academic success; a lot of academicians take the help of professional editors so that they are able to move ahead towards publication. It is surely an effective strategy. Initially, some academicians may take it as a setback that why does an intellectual need to take the help of another intellectual for publication? There are three very clear benefits of using a professional editor:
- It is way to teach yourself the skill of self-editing by an expert
- It helps to save time as professionals can do the work quickly
- It can help to get the work accepted in top journals
- A lot of graduate programmes do not actually teach or include writing training. A lot of academicians struggle with writing work. When one takes help of professional editor, it becomes possible to identify ones most common errors, learn about the rules of grammar. It is mostly a professional editor who can talk and tell about the most frequently committed error and the way it can be avoided best.
- There is always a hurry to put the research under review. Shelling out some money to pay the professional editor helps to produce a piece that is well polished and finished in a way that it would save a lot of your time and effort. In short, it is a very judicious place to use your research funds and moreover time is money.
- There are better chances of paper acceptance when it is edited by a professional. It gives an edge in the peer review process. Often when reviewers go through papers that are reviewed by amateurs there are grammatical errors left. It may out them off. With no stylistic or grammatical errors, there is a chance of focusing on the quality of work and not on the minor errors.
It surely takes away the nervousness which you feel before sending a finished article to a reputed journal and makes you confident of better chances of acceptance.