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Mary G.
Bluff City, TN
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Academic Editing | Dissertations | PhD | Data Analysis | R

The services I can provide fall into two categories: 1. EDITING/WRITING, particularly academic 2. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS in R, C++, & MS Excel. I am working on learning Python. * EDITING/WRITING I combine graduate level mathematical knowledge with excellent writing skills. I have a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and an MBA. Prior to earning these, I was awarded graduate and undergraduate degrees in English literature and worked as an editor of technical materials. I specialize in academic writing and editing, particularly for mathematical and statistical subjects, and am a published author in peer-reviewed journals. I can and have edited many types of documents: policies and procedures, theses and dissertations (many for ESL students), Wikipedia articles, white papers, reports, papers targeted at academic journals. Books I've edited that are currently for sale on Amazon include the following: - Mike Barrett, "SAT Math 2 Prep Black Book" - Phil Champagne, "The Book of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto" - Mukesh Prasad, "From Light to Eternity" - Ronald J. Ryan, "The U.S. Pension Crisis" - Jon Warner, Business Optimization: A Simple and Effective Approach for Achieving Ongoing Business Success - D. K. Willardson, "Quantitative Hitting: Surprising Discoveries of the Game’s Best Hitters" - Anna Wozniak, "The Demon That Occupied Wall Street: How Social Thinkers Deceived Human Mind" My Editing Methodology: If you are seeking someone to edit your 30,000-word thesis in 2 hours for $40, please look elsewhere. A typical edit for me is as follows: 1) A paragraph-level read that usually proceeds at a rate of about 1,000 words/hour. Here I correct/modify grammar, spelling, and some formatting. This rate may be much lower for exacting editing such as papers targeted at academic journals and personal statements written in support of job applications. 2) A higher level reading to not only catch anything I missed in my first reading but also to check the document for flow, clarity, and internal consistency. 3) A spelling and grammar check through MS Word. 4) A final look for orphan headings or anything else that could have gone wrong. I am expert in MS Word and can style headings and tables, figures, and equations so that Word can generate a table of contents and lists of tables, figures, and equations, respectively. If you need the headings styled in a particular format (i.e., APA 7th ed.), I can do that. I can properly organize a thesis or dissertation with introductory material numbered with small Roman numerals and the text with Arabic numbering. This involves sectioning the document in Word. I can use Adobe Photoshop to do some graphical work; for mathematical or statistical material, I can generate graphics through R's ggplot2 package or through MS Excel. A further service is reference citation and bibliography. I prefer to use a source-management software such as EndNote or Mendeley, which will generate a bibliography automatically once I've entered the sources' information in the software and inserted citations for them in the document. I can look up incomplete or incorrect reference information online, but this is very time consuming. If you should have any questions concerning your particular document, please do not hesitate to ask. I am willing to do small sample edits. Lastly, I do not do homework or work for students, although I do provide advice within the limits of editing work--pointing out what I see as flaws or gaps in logic of a document I'm editing. Aside from the fact that it is academically dishonest, I don't think it's fair to do work for a student, and it also places a great deal of responsibility on me. What if I were to do the work and then the work earned an F? I appreciate your understanding with respect to this. * QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS I am proficient in R and C++. I've had extensive classroom and work experience performing various types of quantitative analysis. Although I've used SAS extensively, I currently use R and MS Excel for analysis.
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Skills

  • Technical Editing
  • Statistics
  • R
  • Statistical Computing
  • Analytics
  • Academic Editing
  • Academic Proofreading
  • Editing & Proofreading
  • Academic Research

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