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Editorial Expertise assists (1) professional writers with preparation of manuscripts for publication; (2) graduate degree candidates with the formal and technical details of master's theses or doctoral dissertations; and (3) non-professional writers with research and/or writing projects. 

High professional standards and meticulous attention to the nuances of journal articles, non-fiction/scholarly books, short stories, novels, and memoirs are the hallmarks of my editorial service.  I have edited fiction and numerous scholarly articles and books, published by Notre Dame, Blackwell, and Kegan Paul, among other notable presses.

As an interdisciplinary professor, I am conversant with various academic disciplines (literature, philosophy, theology, religious studies, psychology, anthropology, and business ethics) and versed in the following documentation styles: MLA, APA, and Turabian or the Chicago Manual of Style (and willing to learn the requirements of other style sheets).

The preparation of scholarly articles and books and other non-fiction includes editing of sentence structure, grammar, syntax, and documentation; attention to stylistic consistency; recommendations for reorganization of chapters and subdivisions; and formatting.  Editing of prose fiction also includes suggestions for character development and plot structure. 

Preparation of a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation may include (1) enhancement of sentence structure, stylistic consistency, and organizational cohesiveness; (2) refinement of grammar and syntax, in-text citations or endnotes/footnotes, and bibliographic entries; and (3) formatting of the text, table of contents, appendices, and bibliography.

NOTE: I do not research the topic, produce the academic text, or substantively alter a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation.

Elizabeth K. Tillar

B.A. English (University of New Mexico, 1979)
M.A. Creative Writing  (University of New Mexico, 1983)
M.A. Theology (Colgate Rochester Divinity School, 1988)
Ph.D. Contemporary Systematic Theology (Fordham University, 2000)

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