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emend [ih-mend] (verb)

1. to edit or change (a text) to remove errors;
to correct

2. to improve by critical editing

Anderson Emending provides manuscript editing services to clients throughout the world. My main focus is on food, nutrition and agriculture, but as a board-certified editor in the life sciences, I have expertise and experience in myriad high-level academic and international subjects.

Send an email to matthew@andersonemending.com to discuss how I can help with your next project.

Owner Matthew Anderson and his family at Keleti pályaudvar in Budapest, Hungary, during his graduate school days. Photo by Christina Klas.

Expertise

Certified editor, Board of Education in the Life Sciences

Through its rigorous exam process, the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences evaluates the proficiency of manuscript editors in the life sciences. This is to give potential employers and clients an objective way to assess an editor’s proficiency.

Editors who are certified as editors in the life sciences have passed the BELS process for testing and evaluating proficiency in editing in the life sciences. BELS examinations are written by senior life-science editors, with assistance from testing experts, and focus on the principles and practices of scientific editing in English.

Advanced professional members of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading have demonstrated a high level of skill and expertise, backed by long and broad experience and by ongoing – and recent – professional development, and often enhanced with editorial specialisms. The advanced professional membership is the highest ranking awarded by the CIEP.

Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading - Advanced Professional Member

Recent Work

Recent editing work includes flagship publications for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia and other regional reports.

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Europe and Central Asia – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022
Europe and Central Asia – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2021
Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2020
Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2019
Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2018
SDG Localization in Europe and Central Asia
From nature-negative to nature-positive production A conceptual and practical framework for agriculture based on thermodynamics
Biodiversity in Action — #3
Outcomes of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in Europe and Central Asia
FAO in Europe and Central Asia 2022
The future of food systems in Europe and Central Asia - 2022–2025 and beyond
Climate change impacts on twenty major crop pests in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Southeastern Europe
Hand in hand with nature – Nature-based Solutions for transformative agriculture
Guidelines on integrating the “leave no one behind” principle into development planning in Europe and Central Asia
Sustainable and nutrition-sensitive food systems for healthy diets and prevention of malnutrition in Europe and Central Asia
FAO in Europe and Central Asia 2021
Overview of organic agriculture development in Europe and Central Asia
Azerbaijan Value Chain Gap Analysis
Republic of Moldova Value Chain Gap Analysis
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Empowering smallholders and family farms in Europe and Central Asia

Services

My editing focus is on academic works by authors whose primary language is not English. I excel at turning complicated texts into readable academic-level work. Rates are competitive and generally consistent with guidelines shared by the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading in the United Kingdom and by the Editorial Freelancers Association in the United States.

In addition to copyediting, I provide content development and CV/resume editing services.

 

memberships

Editorial Freelancers Association

Board of Editors in the Life Sciences

Board of Editors in the Life Sciences

Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading - Advanced Professional Member

Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading

American Copy Editors Society