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
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.
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.
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
Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
American Copy Editors Society