an English language editing service for scientists
BioMedical Science Writers, LLC provides extremely high quality English language editing of scientific documents to assist scientists with communicating their work via published articles and with obtaining funding through successful research grant applications. At BioMedical Science Writers you will always know who is editing your document because editing services are provided by one highly qualified editor, Dr. Eric Milner, who provides superb service at a competitive rate. Dr. Milner has had a full career—as a highly successful academic scientist, as a reviewing editor, as an editorial board editor, and as a study section member. He is an expert in presentation of scientific ideas and data. Whether you need extensive editing and revising or simply a final polish, he can help you produce a fluent document that reads smoothly, is easily understood, and communicates your message accurately.
How I edit
Editing a scientific manuscript or grant proposal isn’t simply a matter of correcting grammar, syntax, spelling, and punctuation, although it is necessary to do those things. I take a philosophical approach to a manuscript. I want to preserve the author’s style—it is, after all, your paper, not mine—but at the same time, I want the text to read fluently, and I want the text to be comprehensible.One of the advantages I have as an editor is that my many years of doing and reading science have given me the background to comprehend almost any paper in the biological sciences. My own work has spanned the gamut—microbiology, immunology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and cell biology. I started doing laboratory research as a graduate student in 1973. I retired from active science in 2007. My last primary publication came out in 2011. I have worked with bacterial pathogens, viruses, yeast, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, and humans. The range of techniques with which I am familiar is similarly broad. I continue to read scientific papers, and I continue to familiarize myself with current techniques and scientific trends.
I have read many thousands of scientific papers during my career. I have been a primary reviewer for several hundred manuscripts submitted to journals for publication. I have been a primary reviewer for nearly a hundred grant proposals and have participated in the review of hundreds of grant proposals at study section. In the past year I have edited over a hundred manuscripts on behalf of my clients.
This doesn’t mean that I am an expert in the area of your research, but it does mean that I can read and understand your paper or grant proposal. Is it important for your editor to understand your manuscript? Perhaps it depends on what you want from your editor. Corrections to grammar, syntax, spelling, and punctuation don’t necessarily require actual comprehension. Intelligent revisions or re-writes of sentences or paragraphs do. Is it important that your editor be intimately familiar with the workings of study sections and the process of grant reviewing? I think that it is. I have numerous clients who will swear that it is.
I am very good at what I do. My clients reap the benefits of that expertise. For almost all of my clients, that expertise has resulted in papers accepted for publication or grants funded. For some it has meant, literally, millions of dollars in grant funding.
Working with BioMedical Science Writers
For
established scientists, working with me is like working with a
reliable colleague. I was a front-line, grant-supported
faculty member for more than 20 years. For younger scientists who may
be
new to running their own lab and competing for funding, working with me
can be like working with a knowledgeable mentor. In my
career as an active scientist I trained numerous graduate
students and post-docs, several of whom are current faculty members at
major universities.
Non-native speakers of English
Scientists who are not native speakers (or writers) of English are at a particular disadvantage in preparing manuscripts for English language journals. One of my strengths is the ability both to understand the scientific meaning of a manuscript as well as to render the text into fluent English that says what you intend the manuscript to say. Learn more.
