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Style Prep Proofreading & Formatting

When you order our Style Prep service, you'll receive a perfectly formatted and proofread version of your dissertation, capstone, thesis, or other project. Our Style Prep service provides a proofreading-centered version of our Complete Prep editing and formatting service focused on proofreading for perfect academic style that adheres to your discipline'e style guidelines and flawless basic grammar.

We recommend ordering our Style Prep proofreading and formatting service instead of Complete Prep editing and formatting if you're confident with your writing's style and voice and only want to ensure that the dozens of writing style conventions mandated in the disciplines are followed exactly, that your final draft is free of proofreading errors, and that it's flawlessly formatted following your university or department's guidelines. 

Our Promise 

We will ensure, as we have since 2002, that the final draft you receive from us is completely ready to publish or turn in and will work with you until it's ready or refund your payment.  

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What Style Prep Covers

  • Basic Grammar: In our first pass of editing, we correct subject-verb agreement, pronoun referents, run-on and fragmented sentences (i.e., sentence boundaries), weak or improper verb usage, and other fatal grammatical mistakes. In this stage, we correct for basic grammar before we move on to the next step: style and voice editing.
  • Academic Writing Style: As part of our proofreading review, Style Prep ensures that your academic writing style requirements (e.g., APA, Turabian, or APA) are followed precisely. Our academic style corrections include dozens of obscure rules for the major styles like APA. Overlooking these errors can result in ProQuest rejections, committee requests for revisions, and frustrating delays.
  • Citation Formatting: Included with our Style Prep package, we check and revise your citations (footnotes or parenthetical references) and reference list to exacting compliance with your academic style. Are the commas after the journal title in your APA reference list still italicized? Are your DOIs full URLs? Are your Chicago footnotes citing previous authors correctly? We'll cover all these fine details.
  • Layout Formatting: Layout formatting requires using multiple Word functions (e.g., the styles pane, pagination, headers and footers, section and page breaks) and takes hours of precious time. With layout formatting automatically included with your Style Prep editing order today, we format your paper following your department's style guidelines to ensure that the margins, page numbering, spacing, headers, Table of Contents/List of Tables, table and figure tags, and anything else they require are correct. 

No Revisions Necessary

After we've completed editing and proofreading your dissertation, we'll send a copy of your edited dissertation draft back to you with track changes turned on for your review (and to show our work). We don't leave comments for you to address or any marginal notes that you'll need to sort through. When we find an error, we correct it so that you don't have to. Your final daft is here. It's that straightforward.

Our Reviews

Our clients are consistently satisfied with our attention to detail, response times, and accuracy. Check out our most recent and past reviews today, hosted on our site by Stamped.io.

Book and Manuscript Editing

We also offer a suite of services for academic writers publishing books and journal articles at our sister site, Off the Grid Editing, where we provide an extensive line editing service for authors seeking more extensive revisions for clarity.