SAN DIEGO—A thesis or dissertation, the last step before earning a master’s degree or doctorate, can be daunting. As the end product of years of scholarly work, it’s sometimes difficult to find an editor who can both understand the topic and offer help with the writing.

EditingWorm, a four-year-old web service, offers specialized help for graduate students that goes beyond proofreading and covers logic, structure, and clarity, ensuring that the final product reflects the hard academic work that went into it. The editors are familiar with style, but also all hold PhDs and are familiar with academic writing and expectations. In addition, they are able to offer guidance about the clarity and structure of writing on complex topics.

Theses and dissertations are different from other academic papers. Understanding that the stakes are higher for the author, EditingWorm submits each document to a careful review, often by multiple people.

“Our editing services assist you in addressing the specialized feedback and requests you receive from your chair, adviser, or other committee members,” Chief Editor Katrina Oko-Odoi said. “We are well versed in satisfying the concerns of demanding professors or committees, and we’re dedicated to helping individuals produce a final product that they can be proud of.”

The service offers two types of editing for theses and dissertations. Deep editing, the most popular, includes proofreading but goes far beyond that, focusing on readability, clarity, and logic. The editing team works with the customer on tone, syntax, and the structure of sentences and paragraphs. The team also evaluates the strength, logic, and consistency of the arguments and offers detailed feedback on how to improve.

A standalone proofreading service, intended to offer a final polish to a document, is also available. Shorter documents, less than 30 pages, are finished in five to seven days. Longer works, up to 150 pages, take two weeks, and documents of more than 150 pages take three weeks.

One customer, who earned an M.A. in Video Art and Media, said: “EditingWorm was a one-stop-shop for all my thesis needs. They were able to not only point out corrections, but guided me in a direction that resulted in the best paper possible.”

The service also offers multiple types of document formatting to ensure that the layout and citations in the document are correct and follow the proper style guidelines. Formatting help is available for APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, Harvard, and Oxford style guides, as well as university-specific guidelines.

Consulting services are also available, including assistance with documenting the current state of scholarship in a particular field, and content development to expand on a topic or other specialized part of a dissertation or thesis.

This combination of services, along with highly qualified editors, offer students peace of mind during the thesis or dissertation process, Oko-Odoi said. “Our academic editors have an intimate knowledge of the standards required, and their expertise in higher education means that they understand what it takes to excel.”

A simple, free, no-obligation price quote is available at http://editingworm.com/get-a-copy-editing-copy-writing-quote.