Proofreading and Editing Services in Malaysia — Tracked, Not Rewritten

Proofreading is a surface pass — typos, punctuation, spacing — leaving sentences as they are. Copy-editing rewrites at sentence level for grammar, tense and wordiness while preserving your meaning. Substantive editing goes further, lifting academic register, improving paragraph flow and calibrating claims to the evidence. Most students order proofreading and actually need one of the other two.

If your supervisor has never commented on your writing, proofreading is enough. If sentences are awkward or tenses slip, you need copy-editing. If you have been told the writing is "not academic enough", or you are writing in a second language and want the register lifted, you need substantive editing. Send 500 words and we will tell you which, free, before you order.

Language editing is permitted at most Malaysian institutions, and some ask you to acknowledge it in your thesis. A few restrict how deep the editing may go. Read your handbook, because permitted and acknowledged is a very different position from undisclosed. Our tracked changes also give you a record showing the work was edited rather than written.

No. We do not add arguments, insert citations to prop up a thin claim, or write a section you have not drafted. Where a paragraph is missing or a claim has no source, it comes back as a margin comment for you to address. That boundary is what keeps editing legitimate, and we hold it even when asked not to.

Yes — everything is returned in tracked changes alongside a clean version. You can accept or reject each alteration individually, and anything debatable carries a margin comment explaining the reasoning. Rejecting changes is expected rather than awkward; it is your thesis and your voice.

Yes, and it is available as a standalone job at RM 20 per 1,000 words if the language is already fine. Margins, spacing, heading hierarchy, caption placement, table and figure numbering, front matter order and a rebuilt table of contents. Send the handbook — these conventions differ by faculty and they carry marks.

Yes, and it is more common than you would think, usually after a change of supervisor. We unify everything to the style your faculty requires, then check each in-text citation against the reference list and each list entry back against the text. Missing entries and orphaned references are reported to you by name rather than quietly deleted.

Yes, at the same rates as English. BM theses need an editor who writes academically in the language rather than a translator — the most common problem is istilah drifting between bab, followed by sentences that read as translated from English rather than composed in BM.

Several publishers now ask authors whose first language is not English to provide evidence of professional language editing. We issue a certificate naming the manuscript and the editing level applied, at no extra cost.

Not reliably, and it is not what an edit is for. Similarity comes from matched passages and citation handling, which is a different job addressing a different check. If your similarity score is the actual problem, say so and we will quote that separately rather than sell you a language edit that will not move it.

Proofreading a 20,000-word thesis takes two to three days, copy-editing three to five and substantive editing five to eight. Under 48 hours carries a surcharge and depends on capacity. If the deadline cannot support the level you need, we will say so and suggest editing the chapters that matter most rather than rushing all of them.

Yes, and plenty of students do — usually the chapters written earliest or the ones a supervisor has already marked for language. Send the whole document as a reference file even if you are only paying for part of it, so terminology and referencing can be checked against the chapters we are not editing.

Completely. Your document is used only for your edit, never reused, never shared beyond the editor assigned to you, and deleted once the order closes. Unpublished research is the most sensitive thing a student owns and we treat it that way.