Sample of Projects Completed


Edits International has edited a wide variety of documents for clients in business, industry, and academia. These include the following projects:

Business

  • customer letters, revised for a Pittsburgh utility company
  • correspondence & reports edited for senior managers at an international restaurant chain
  • a 30-page award application, edited for the HR department of a major financial services company
  • a 200-page contract on outsourcing of computer services, edited for an oil company (Texaco)
  • content for a U.S. Department of Energy website
The editing provided clear and accurate corrections for grammar and punctuation errors, as well as tips for making the text more concise.  Just as importantly, [my editor] was easy to work with and responded very promptly to all requests.
                                             -Vice president of training for major U.S. bank

Industry
  • a TV manual, revised and redesigned for an international electronics company (Mitsubishi)
  • the description of a bolt-bearing plate used in coal mines, revised for a patent application
  • the product manual for the reading program Hooked on Phonics
I got the patent application sent in, and . . . the attorney commented on the quality of the work that was done on it.  Great job! . . . I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the work you put into this. 
                                                                                                       -Bert Slater, American inventor                                                                  
Academia
  • a 30-page research article on heating, cooling, & ventilation systems, edited for a Japanese visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
  • a dissertation in mechanical engineering, edited for a Chilean student at Carnegie Mellon University
  • a 300-page book on Soviet foreign policy in the 1930’s, edited for a Russian visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh
  • several chapters (c.100 pages) of a book on cognitive psychology, edited for a Swiss visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
  • a dissertation on cranio-sacral therapy, edited for an American professor
  • a technical report on information science, edited for a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
  • a dissertation in electrical & computer engineering, edited for a Korean student at the University of Southern California
  • a dissertation in computational linguistics, edited for a student at the University of Southern California
  • the set of instructions for a board game, edited for a Los Angeles inventor
  • a dissertation in economics & business, edited for a Mexican Ph.D student at Carnegie Mellon University
The edit was exceptional: first of all, [my editor was] able to write as I would . . . in Italian, only better; second, the edit made me see the manuscript from a different perspective, so I could cut and make it more concise and sequential.
                                                                   -Elena DiMartino, biomedical researcher


Miscellaneous
  • annual report, edited for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
  • patient-information booklet, produced for National Institutes of Health
[My grad student] passed his Ph.D. presentation with flying colors. The thesis looks excellent . . . .
                                                                    -Advisor of Colombian doctoral student



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