Ragnar — Proofreading & Editing freelancer in Stellenbosch

Top Rated Plus✅PhD holder✅Solid publication record✅Over 300 texts edited✅Native English speaker✅AI savvy✅Patient and thorough✅Available seven days a week✅ I excel in helping writers overcome obstacles to achieving their publishing goals. Writing can be challenging. Word choice, sentence structure, logical rigour, and thematic consistency can make the difference between a publisher accepting or rejecting a manuscript. If you need a precise, punctual, and thorough writer, proofreader, copy editor, reviewer, or just general academic guidance, then I can help! I also have experience enhancing AI-generated writing so that it meets publishing standards. AI can generate an outline or structure of a text, but it lacks the analytical rigour, thematic depth, and abstract insights of an expert human researcher and writer. I have a PhD in philosophy of science and have successfully copy-edited over 300 texts (both on Upwork and for a top UK editing company). I am also a native English speaker (in other words, I grew up in an English-speaking home and went to a school and university where English is the only language of instruction). I have several publications in high-ranking journals and have given numerous conference talks. This means that I am not only a copy editor. I can also complete whatever writing and publishing tasks you might have. There are some writing and editing samples in my Upwork portfolio. (Some of the edited texts have been quite heavily reworked, but the level of editing for each task is client-specific.) Please message me if you would like to see writing or editing samples that match your current project. I am also available for consultations if you have some ideas that you'd like to stress test. The same goes for advice related to entering academia or undertaking academic projects. This includes advice or supervision for students, guidance for those outside academia wanting to publish in academic journals, and input on research projects or related undertakings. Please message me if you'd like to set up a consultation. I consider myself to be focused and professional with a natural affinity for academic dialogue and argumentation. Although my area of expertise is in academic writing, I have recently been writing, proofreading, and editing numerous non-academic texts (e.g. blog posts, corporate documents, and non-fiction books). This means that my skills can also add value to projects in the general public intellectual space or popular science and philosophy writings. (Please note that I do not use AI in my work unless requested. I am also not available to manipulate AI-generated student assignments or theses specifically to pass an AI-detector test. The same applies to doing research or writing for students. I can, however, edit student texts for clarity, style, reader-friendliness, and thematic and logical consistency. I can also leave comments\u002Fsuggestions alongside a student's own writing where something seems to be missing or might need to be fleshed out further. In other words, I can edit and supervise students, but not do the actual research and writing.)