An application for promotion within academia is a rigorous and important process. A successful proposal for promotion provides the applicant with both formal acknowledgement of the hard work and successes achieved over a period of several years, as well as significant financial and reputational gains.
Unlike other forms of academic applications, such as research or grant proposals, a promotion application requires an entire narrative of your contributions to the achievements of your faculty in the areas of teaching and learning, research and service. The specialist editors at Capstone Editing can ensure that your application provides a convincing and compelling narrative of your achievements, enumerated against the measures required by your university and other relevant extenuating factors. This will greatly improve your chances of promotion success.
An application for their own promotion is something academics often find very challenging to write. When writing about themselves for an audience made up of their colleagues and independent scholars, many accomplished academic writers find themselves wavering as—unsure of the delicate boundary that lies between self-effacement and self-aggrandisement—they vacillate uncomfortably between the two. It can be very difficult to get this balance exactly right so that your achievements within your faculty and contributions to your field are emphasised without seeming overinflated. Capstone Editing’s editors specialise in doing exactly that.
With years of experience as academics and as editors for academics, our copyeditors know exactly what is valued in the academy and are adept at finding the right balance and tone for your proposal for promotion, so that your capabilities and achievements are presented in the best possible light, both for the assessors within your faculty and those assessing it from independent institutions.
There are a variety of services for you to choose from at Capstone Editing to assist you with your application for promotion.
The Premium Copyediting service is our most popular option and incorporates full copyediting of your document. This includes checking for errors or disparities in spelling, punctuation or formatting, as well as ensuring that the style, consistency and structure of your writing is clear and logical. Our copyeditors will also check that your document meets any additional requirements specific to your particular promotion application such as word limits and any other formal stipulations for the application, as provided by your university.
Simply submit your promotion application online for our Premium Copyediting service.
The following services are available for promotion applications that require more extensive editorial intervention:
To access either of these services or to find out more about our rates, please email your document to Capstone Editing with a request for our Substantive or Platinum (Heavy) Editing services.
This service is for promotion applications that already read well and do not require a full copyedit. If you are confident with your finished application but require an objective reader for your final draft, Capstone Editing’s professional proofreaders can provide a final close reading to check for consistency of formatting and referencing, minor errors such as typos, and overall presentation. If you would like a quotation for this service, send us an email with your document attached and any further relevant information or instructions.
If the editing assistance you require for your academic promotion application differs from those we have listed, then Capstone Editing may still be able to help you. We are always happy to offer tailor-made editing solutions to suit the individual needs of our academic clients. This service is especially useful for those editing tasks that are time-consuming, such as collating all your publications into a list with a single referencing style.
Due to the diversity of requests for tailor-made services, prices will vary depending on the extent of the editorial assistance required. If you would like to enquire about this service, simply email your document along with any instructions, and we will provide you with a quotation.
We are proud of our reputation as the highest-quality academic editing service available. Testimonials from our past clients and the examples of our editing we provide here demonstrate the quality of our work.
These documents provide representative examples of our work for past clients.
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