creating texts to meet the highest academic standard
having trouble achieving the degree of clarity you desire for your work
writing to meet the particular stylistic requirements of an academic publication
or needing help in shaping texts to reach a general audience.
Rates are negotiable, depending on the specifics of the project. I charge per page -- not per hour or per word. Minimum charge is $25.00. If you are working with a tight budget, I can negotiate a lower fee for you. Per page cost is from $6.00 on up, depending on complexity, deadline, and amount of research work involved. Undergraduate student fees for papers start at $4.00 per page. Independent writers involved in larger projects -- for instance, books - can negotiate aggregated fees outside of my usual per page charges. For instance, if you have a 300 page manuscript, I will charge a total fee, rather than a per page one. The total fee is always lower.
Roger Gathman
615 Upson #203 Austin, Texas 78703
(512) 478-3699
With more than seven years of experience both as a writer of independent cultural journalism and as a consultant for books, articles, and dissertations in the humanities and the qualitative research paradigm in the social sciences, I can help you improve your writing according to the canons and styles current in your discipline. Good writing is site specific. The informal style of a personal memoir is inappropriate to a mursing review paper on, for instance, quality of life issues among cancer patients. I will not compose your work, but I will help shape it given the norms of the discipline that treats your subject matter. Only you can ultimately write it: my job is to make it flow logically and topically; to make sure that it refers to current literature and themes in your field; and to make sure that it is line edited (grammar, punctuation, etc.). This is what is entailed by helping you find your voice.
In the humanities, voice is a familiar concept. Humanities scholars are trained to integrate expressive language and conceptual structure in their texts, thereby deepening and enriching their themes. If you are a humanities scholar, I can help you achieve this goal. In the social sciences, however, the divide between information and articulation is under-conceptualized. So how do qualitative social science researchers find their respective voices?
I will help you find the total connection between expressive accounts, methodology, and findings in order to make the whole bear the impress of an authorial identity. My suggestions will make your text clearer conceptually, tighten its flow, and clear away stylistic obscurities.
WRITING EXPERIENCE
When you hire me, you are hiring a freelance contributor to: the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, The New York Observer, Salon, The Boston Review, the Chicago Sun-Times, In These Times, Newsday, and many other magazines and journals. My expertise in academic writing comes out of my own academic experience, in French and Philosophy, and the editing I have done on articles, papers and books in the humanities, business and social sciences.
A partial client list from last year includes:
▪ substantive editing of a book on process ontology;
▪ substantive editing of a monograph on migration in Argentina;
▪ substantive editing of an article on Paul Ricoeur;
▪ substantive editing of an article on nominalism in mathematical philosophy;
▪ substantive editing of a conference paper on scientific realism;
▪ extensive substantive editing of a book on macroeconomics;
▪ substantive editing of a book on supply chain management;
▪ a partial translation of a turn of the century Austrian linguist whose work on speech errors was used by Freud;
▪ editing of a paper on semantic opacity and animal consciousness;
▪ a translation of a German book on Japanese economics (ongoing);
▪ substantive editing of a popular science book on speech dysfunctions.
