ASGS maintains a database of professional dissertation/thesis assistants to help students from institutions that permit the use of professional experts in research design, data analysis, manuscript editing, and dissertation counseling. To be part of the ASGS database, these consultants pledge to provide services in an ethical manner, providing only those services that advisers and committee members allow. Always inform your faculty/thesis adviser of your intention to use an ASGS consultant or counselor before doing so.
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All areas of study. Reading and editing for content, organization, style.
Has worked on 200 theses and dissertations in all disciplines. Experience working with nonnative speakers as well as with people with ADD. Individual and group coaching in office, by phone, and email. Twenty-five years of dissertation, thesis, and proposal editing; 10 years individual coaching in academic job search; currently facilitate two groups--one is ABD the other is for people with doctorates. "I have taught Research Methods and Writing for Professional Publication at the graduate level. I have been a writing coach to masters and doctoral students, faculty, and undergraduates in a variety of fields: social work, psychology, education, sociology, anthropology, literature, languages, history, economics, biology, physics, computer science, soil science, HR, organizational development, and the arts.I'm the coauther of How to Become an Academic Coach."
Editing $50/ hour (rush jobs, $80/hr) Academic writing consultation and coaching, life coaching $100/hr, $55/half hr ABD Group $25/hr Writing for Publication Group (post degree) $40/hr