English Proofreading and Editing for Academia, Institutions, and the NGO Sector

Ensure your writing is 100% error-free so your research can speak for itself.

Our Services

 

English proofreading is essential to the successful communication of your research and ideas. Our philosophy is to ensure that success by safeguarding your writing against grammatic, spelling, structural, and technical errors which distract from your content while improving clarity, coherence, vocabulary, and style in a way which retains and strengthens the meaning and quality of your writing throughout the correction process.

It is critical to us that every project is 100% error-free. For that reason, each document is proofread twice by native-speaking professional copy-editors. All changes are tracked using the software of your choice, and comments provide suggestions and alternatives. Ample space is allowed for you to review and give feedback so as to guarantee your words and concepts are understood.

Beyond language proofreading, our editors take seriously the special requirements of academics, institutions, and research-based organizations, conforming your work to the standards of language and style required in these sectors so that your colleagues can evaluate your research for what it is. That is Kismet.

  • Academic Articles

    Familiar with journal requirements, our editors conform to the language style of the publisher as well as various reference standards (CMOS, APA, MLA, HARVARD, etc.) so that your edited document is ready for submission.

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  • Books & Dissertations

    In addition to the services already mentioned, we provide long-format manuscript revision. A document-specific style guide for submission to the publisher is included to ensure consistency throughout the publication process and can set this style in advance for edited volumes.

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  • Reports & Other Documents

    Documents prepared for institutions and NGOs are conformed to the styleguides of the various national and international institutions being submitted to with a guarantee to meet your linguistic obligations.

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Our Prices

All our prices are per norm page (except formatting and typesetting), a standard used in Central Europe. A norm page is 1800 characters including spaces. Using this system, it is possible to quote you an exact price regardless of the amount of editing that your document requires.

 

Proofreading & Editing

€8.40/CZK 210

This is the essential service that prepares your document for publication. It includes corrections for grammar, spelling, and punctuation; editing for readability, accuracy, and comprehension; and checks for capitalization, style adherence, and consistency. In short, this package ensures your writing communicates your ideas clearly and consistently, without error. For an itemized list of the services provided view our full service list.

€11/CZK 275 for 24-hour* rush

We understand that sometimes you are up against a deadline and need a fast turnaround. With this package, we’re willing to drop everything day or night, weekday or weekend to get your writing in tip-top shape within the timeframe you require. *Please note, 24-hours are counted as business days.

Reference Check

€2.40/CZK 60

References are conformed and made consistent with the required style and citations are cross-referenced to ensure accuracy.

Formatting

€3/CZK 75

This includes conforming all manuscript elements to the style and format as per the publisher’s recommendations. The charge is per document page to be more in-line with the nature of the work.

Typesetting (LaTex)

€50/CZK 1250 per hour (min. 4 hours)

An increasing number of our clients are working with LaTex submissions. We can do typesetting for you, again conforming your document to the style and format as per the publisher’s recommendations.

Pre-payments.

Many of our clients require advance payment for our services. To ensure this process runs smoothly, we set up a client-specific account to hold the fee, meaning it remains untouched until the service has been provided. It can easily be returned if desired, and anytime you wish to see an account summary it can be provided.

Our Clients

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Author Resources

This is a collection of short articles to help academics improve their writing skills. We hope you find them useful.

If you have requests for topics, please write us at info@kismet.cz, and we’ll consider them for future posts.

 
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It’s Not ‘Ironic’, It’s Important: Five Ways to Use Typographic Emphasis in Academic Writing

Typographic emphasis is a useful tool in academic writing because it offsets a word for special consideration from the rest of the text visually, conveying to the reader how a word should be read without explicitly stating it—something easily done in speech or via body language but that needs special treatment in text, usually done through quotation marks, italics, boldface and capitalization.

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Parallelism Is More Than Just Good Writing

Parallelism is often cited as a sign of good writing—and for good reason. Parallelism does a great job of tying together a series of ideas and items through parallel syntax. In parallelism, there is an agreement between verb, noun, adjective, and adverb form that is not only good grammar but, when used effectively, draws attention to what is being written.

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Best Collocation Resources for 2021

Through many years of proofreading excellent research papers, I have learned many an English word from non-native academics. So many in fact that I have often wondered how they developed such a rich vocabulary. After a time it dawned on me that their dictionaries, thesauruses, and translators were hard at work finding the perfect word. And while sometimes those tools came up with words that worked perfectly, other times, they just didn’t sound right to my native ear. And this usually boiled down to one thing: collocations.

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About Us

 

Based in Prague, Czech Republic, Kismet is operated by English native-speaking professional editors with experience writing and editing for academia, NGOs, national and supranational (EU) institutions, film and television, magazines, professional blogs, as well as marketing and professional content for all sorts of great organizations.

Established in 2014, we’ve since edited hundreds of journal articles, reports, chapters, dissertations and books for clients all over Europe.

kismet /kiz*muht/ is an ancient word found in dozens of languages, describing a situation that is out of our hands, an event that was meant to be, and that's exactly how we like to think of the relationships we have with our clients - by the end of your project, we hope it feels like fate brought us together.

Get in Touch

For a price quote, please fill out the form with a description of your project, including an approximate word count, the deadline you are working towards, and any other concerns you may have. If you’d like an exact quote, please upload your document.

For all other inquiries, feel free to contact us directly whichever way is best. We'll work hard to meet all your needs.