About

Writing is not a solitary activity.

From the world’s greatest writer to someone just starting out, every writer needs an editor to elevate their work to its absolute potential.

Cornell Editing provides full editorial services for academic and non-fiction manuscripts. You can expect service that is precise, respectful, highly organized, and delivered on time.

Editorial Services

Developmental editing

• Structural guidance to reshape arguments or narratives.
• Guidance and feedback on core elements such as structure and pacing

Copy editing

• Micro-level review of sentence and paragraph structures.
• Targeted revisions to eliminate wordiness and clarify complex ideas.
• Polishing to dramatically strengthen overall prose quality.

Proofreading

• Final-pass reading to eliminate spelling, mechanical, and grammatical errors.
• Meticulous screening to erase subtle stylistic inconsistencies.

Style guides and References

• Expert formatting across all major academic and professional stylesheets.
• Strict compliance with APA, MLA, and Chicago (CMS) guidelines.

Bio

Elizabeth Cornell, PhD, has been a freelance editor since 1993. Currently, she is managing editor at Laboratory Phonology and contributes editorial support to Studies in American Fiction. Her career includes serving as Senior Writer at New York Public Radio and Director of Internal Communications for the Office of Information Technology at Fordham University. Prior to that, she was a post-doctoral fellow in English at Fordham, where she taught American literature and composition classes. She has also taught writing courses at Hunter College.

Contact for rates and more info: editing @ [ elizabeth f cornell . net ] (remove the brackets and close up the spaces to create the actual address).