At affordable hourly rates, we strive to support you with a multiple services:

Deep Editing:

• Feedback on writing elements such as organization, clarity of content, specificity of research design and methods

• Best done before the document is complete or being submitted to the committee

Copy Editing:

•  For writing style, sentence-level revisions, transitions, and word choice

• This careful review is best done near the end of the writing process, prior to submission to your chair &/or the final defense

Format Editing:

• Adjusts the formatting of your document according to a specific format and style sheet

• Compliance with major professional formats (APA, Chicago, MLA) and program handbook

• Best accomplished with a final draft of the manuscript

• You are expected to have all content, including in-text citations, in place before requesting this service.

Your dissertation is complete and approved by your committee, pending some changes. This package helps you through the feedback from your committee to generate a final and more polished manuscript.

With the Post-defense Dissertation Editing Package, the WEX editor meets with you initially for an hour to to discuss the requested changes; edits the document with special attention to revised areas; and meets with you again for an hour to discuss any additional revisions you may need to make. The package includes:

• 1 hour initial coaching meeting

• Up to 8 hours of focused editing on revised sections, and cursory review of the whole document for general textual concerns (checking for redundancy, typos, misspellings, etc.)

• 1 hour summary coaching meeting to discuss any further revisions

This package provides a discounted price for 10 hours of work with a completed dissertation. Additional services may be discussed if appropriate, in which case WEX will bill you for any additional hours. 

To get started, please upload the final draft of your dissertation, as well as the most recent version with committee feedback (if applicable). Once you submit, a WEX editor will contact you to arrange an initial meeting. If the revisions requested by your committee are extensive, this package may not be not enough and there could be need for continued editing. You may discuss this with your editor if appropriate.

Time & Completion of Editing

• WEX editors will complete your requested work in about 10 business days (2 weeks), unless the document requires extensive additional work; in that case, WEX will contact you before proceeding.

• WEX is closed on weekends. All submissions on weekends are considered submitted on the following business day.

*This package does not include reference cross-checking for citations. If you’d like reference cross-checking, or other services not mentioned here, please email us at wex@antioch.edu.

Dissertations are challenging – potentially the most complex piece of writing any academic will write – so it’s natural to need extra support. WEX’s Dissertation Triage is a six-week program designed to support you in writing your dissertation. If you’re feeling stuck, unmotivated, overwhelmed, or just know that getting help makes sense, Dissertation Triage is a vital step to success.

The WEX Writing Experts have designed Dissertation Triage to provide doctoral students with individualized writing support that will quickly identify effective strategies to overcome the challenges of writing the dissertation.  Dissertation Triage includes online meetings and editing with WEX PhD Coach.

• 1  hour of initial consultation to review needs & create strategy

• 3  20-minute check-ins to monitor progress & ask questions

• 5  hours of editing spread over 6 weeks

As the adage goes:  “A good dissertation is a done dissertation.

Contact us for more information if you are interested in this service.

This is a service available only to the Antioch University community.

This service is for those interested in transforming their dissertations into other manuscripts such as journal articles or books written for a new audience. Taking the academic manuscript of the dissertation and creating another document requires a certain amount of transformation. It certainly requires an ability to copy edit a lengthy manuscript of disparate parts in such a way that it becomes a readable text tailored to a new audience. WEX PhD Coaches have the editing expertise and breadth of writing exposure to help you meet this goal.

This service includes six hours of support split between coaching and editing, depending on your needs, which can be dispersed however you choose throughout the process. This may include brainstorming sessions to help you decide on your goals, review of resources available, and/or editing of manuscript drafts. You will communicate directly with your editor throughout the development of the manuscript. Depending on the length of the project there might be further editing costs, but WEX will keep you apprised throughout the process should your editor recommend additional services.

The Comprehensive Exams are “high stakes” writing, and you want to do your best to submit a polished manuscript of your responses. You want your knowledge to shine and do not want stray errors to negatively affect your reader’s evaluation. Therefore, it’s highly advisable to use WEX services to have your document edited for format.

With your program’s permission, WEX can edit your comprehensive exam responses for format editing only. Since it’s an exam, it’s fundamental that WEX editors respect your writer’s voice and knowledge of the material. As a result, WEX editors will not copyedit but focus their edits on cleaning & polishing the document for typos, errors in syntax, citations, references, etc. WEX editors will not change the substance of your content nor advise on missing material.

Depending on their individual writing process, students may submit their responses as they complete them or submit all at once. There’s value in having the full document and cross-checking the references section. So, if you decide to submit as you write, you might benefit from a final submission of the full document for this final review. However, you need to ensure that you’ll receive everything back in time for your deadline.

WEX believes that writers have the final responsibility for any changes in the Word document. WEX editors use Track Changes and will send you two versions of your writing: one with the Track Changes present and the other with all changes accepted. Comments will appear on both versions of your document so that they receive your attention. You will have to delete all comments prior to submitting the manuscript of responses.

Since most writers at this point are at a quick deadline, please email WEX directly should you have any questions. WEX also requires that you confirm the availability of WEX editing two weeks prior to your submission deadline.

Contact us for more information if you are interested in this service.

We are dedicated to supporting you, the individual writer, and have developed a fee scale that we hope is economical for you and also acknowledges the professional work of the editor. Specific writing needs may require additional time and effort, but we will always provide you with a total cost along with the initial editing contract.

For more details, check out our pricing page!