Welcome to Silver Academic Editing
Do you write scholarly articles? Are you working on a book chapter, monograph, or dissertation?
I’m here to help.
Let me strengthen your writing as I edit for style, structure, and clarity of content. My job also includes proofreading your work for typos, errors, and consistency of formatting.
Are you putting together an edited volume or journal issue?
I specialize in academic editing in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in the fields of Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, History, Art History, and Education, though I have experience editing in other academic fields as well. (For more on my previous experience, see the About Allison and Testimonials pages.)
I enjoy working with volume editors to copyedit the writing of multiple authors while ensuring consistency of style and formatting across the volume.
Is English your second language? I would be glad to help with your writing!
I speak Japanese and Spanish, and I’m conversant in Korean – I have extensive experience editing the English academic writing of Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and German scholars, as well as other multilingual writers.
For multilingual authors, I also take the time to provide feedback on English expressions and colloquial vs. written usage, in addition to correcting English errors. I’ll help transform your writing, giving it a polished and professional tone, while answering your questions about English academic writing conventions along the way.
My meticulous nature and eye for detail allow me to work carefully and efficiently, as I refine your writing.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Allison Silver Adelman (she/her)
Ph.D. in Linguistics
(University of California, Santa Barbara)
From my Testimonials page:
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“Allison has a wide range of editing experience, including extensive work with non-native writers of English to improve their style and communicability. I have already recommended Allison for several other editing jobs, and would not hesitate to recommend her for any others which would benefit from her writing and editorial experience, competence, skills, and collaborative personality.”
~ Sandra A. Thompson, Professor Emeritus, UCSB
“Allison is not only an experienced professional but also a reliable consultant … based on her expertise in contemporary linguistics. With her careful support, writing a research paper, or even a lengthy monograph, becomes an enjoyable task, and her thoughtful suggestions give me a lot more confidence in my work.”
~ Daisuke Shinagawa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
“To work with Allison has been a great pleasure and a privilege. Myself and all our authors – native speakers and non-native speakers – have appreciated her meticulous and circumspect editing. I can wholeheartedly recommend her as an editor.”
~ Christian Windler, Professor Emeritus, University of Bern, Switzerland
“I’ve worked regularly with professional copyeditors for over a decade and working with Allison was easily the best experience I’ve had in that time.”
~ Andrew Griffin, UCSB
“Whenever I write a paper in English, Allison is always the first person I ask to proofread and check my non-native English prose, and so do my colleagues at my institute. We all trust her expertise in editing manuscripts, which is coupled with her deep understanding of linguistics. There is really no one quite like her.”
~ Honoré Watanabe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
“Allison did an amazing job on the index for my monograph! I was so happy with the process and the finished product … I definitely plan to hire her to create indexes for books I write in the future. I can’t recommend her services strongly enough.”
~ Lynnette Arnold, University of Massachusetts
“Allison was able to balance the task of helping authors clarify their points on the one hand, with maintaining their individual voices on the other. She has an excellent eye for detail and was vigilant in formatting the chapters according to the publisher’s instructions. ”
~ Andrea Berez-Kroeker, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
“I feel lucky to have found Allison to copyedit my work in linguistic anthropology and social science. She is very organized, responsive, and often completes projects ahead of schedule. I recommend her without hesitation for anyone embarking on a writing project.”
~ Jessica López-Espino, UCSB
“Working with Allison was a pleasure throughout! We will definitely rely on her services for future projects and can only recommend her.”
~ Cornelia Gerhardt, Saarland University, Germany
~ Elisabeth Reber, University of Würzburg
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