Editing is not about making sentences pretty — it is about removing every reason for an examiner to misunderstand you. Eleven years of academic editing, built around that single principle.
No marketing biography. Here is the qualification, the experience and the working method — so you can judge whether they are right for your thesis.
Sze Ying holds an MA in English Language Studies from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and has worked full-time in academic editing since graduating, covering theses across every discipline from engineering to education.
She works extensively with non-native English writers, a majority of her caseload, correcting the specific error patterns that arise from writing academic English as a second or third language — not generic 'grammar issues' but predictable, correctable patterns.
Terminology consistency across chapters is a particular focus — a construct or variable referred to by three different names across a thesis is one of the most common, avoidable issues an examiner flags.
She reads the full document once before editing anything, building a terminology list of your key constructs, variables and technical terms so they stay consistent from Chapter 1 to your conclusion.
Editing is done with tracked changes throughout, so you can see exactly what changed and why — your own meaning and argument are preserved completely; only the language carrying them is improved.
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Academic tone and clarity editing, tracked throughout, with every change visible and your own meaning preserved completely.
Formatting alongside editing where a full submission-ready document is needed — margins, captions, table of contents and pagination.
Citation style consistency checked and corrected across the full document, matched to your faculty's required convention.
Editing specifically for writers whose first language is not English, correcting predictable error patterns without flattening your own voice.
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Ask Sze Ying →"My English is my third language and I could never tell if my writing sounded academic enough. She fixed it completely while keeping every idea exactly mine. Reads like a proper thesis now."
"Terminology consistency was something I never thought about until she pointed out I had three different names for the same variable across my chapters. Fixed immediately."
"Solid editing work, tracked changes made it easy to see exactly what she fixed. A bit slower than the estimate given my thesis length, but the quality was there throughout."
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