FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
My mantra: the shorter the document, the cheaper the price. Service Fees: Copyediting and Proofreading are less expensive than Rewriting. Writing from scratch commands the highest fee. EARN DISCOUNTS: If you are a repeat customer and left a review of my first job for you, I'll give you a 10% discount on your next project! If you refer a customer, I'll give you 15% off on your next project, and the customer your referred will receive 10% off on his/her first project! (Discounts cannot be combined.)
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Text me with a description of services you'd like me to provide, the type of project, and the size of the project. I will text back as soon as I can. If from your initial text, I can tell that my abilities aren't suited to your project, I'll let you know in my text. If I need more information or I am interested in the project, I'll text you that, too, and we can arrange a time when I can call you to discuss your project and my involvement further.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
In high school, I sat on the editorial board of the high school's literary magazine all four years. The editorial staff was required to submit at least one piece of writing per trimester for consideration for inclusion in the magazine and staff was also required to proofread the pieces approved for inclusion in the magazine; thus, in addition to my academic writing, I would regularly be composing a piece worthy of the magazine. My senior year I was appointed editor-in-chief. The courses in high school I took which emphasized writing included Freshman Honors English, Advanced Placement English Composition, English Usage, Humanities (Junior Honors English), Perspectives (alternative to Humanities that included filmmaking which is why I took it), Advanced Placement English Literature, Advanced Placement US History, and Advanced Placement Biology (lab reports). As for proofreading experience, I worked on the layout staff of the literary magazine in high school. This entailed importing text into the template the layout staff had created for that year's magazine. Once the text was imported into the allotted space, the layout staff established that the template's formatting didn't cause awkward hyphenated word breaks and that the text flowed. If the text was a poem, the staff guaranteed that the poem's layout, once imported, remained true to the poet's original formatting. In college my freshman year, I took a class in rhetoric, which. the course catalog posits, "improves speaking, listening, critical, analytical, and advocacy skills", and a class called Principles of Reasoning, which reinforces "critical thinking and its application to arguments and debates." I also began my journey into Art History, a subject which requires students to visually assess and analyze works of art from a variety of contexts (one's own observations, historical, biographical, physical/material, religious, political, technical, etc.), and research works of art. Students are to keep all that knowledge and those conclusions corralled until they can plant the ideas and facts on paper in the most effective arrangement. Basically, an Art History major, which I was for 6 years (also simultaneously a Pre-Med, then Pre-Nursing major), just writes. Granted the topic is art, but students are held to legitimate academic journal standards. Full disclosure: I do not have a bachelor's degree but for the undergraduate courses I did complete, I attended Columbia University, the University of Iowa, and Bard College. For those of you looking for someone versed in medical terminology, you need look no further. After volunteering at a free clinic and answering the phone lines at a local crisis center, I applied and was accepted into the University of Iowa's Accelerated Paramedic Program through the Carver College of Medicine. My writing experience through the program and its internships included 2 lectures (one on an assigned pathophysiology topic and the other, the presentation of an unusual/atypical case I encountered during my internships), a research paper and multiple patient call reports. My cumulative PSAT score, which evaluates verbal and writing skills (in addition to mathematics abilities), was in the top 1% in the nation. I took the SATs when there were just the two sections (Verbal and Math, no written component) and each section was scored out of a possible 800 points. On the Verbal portion, I earned a score of 730 which put me somewhere between the 95th and 97th-percentile in the nation.