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I recently received the following question from a colleague: “How do you usually balance maintaining an author’s original voice while ensuring the paper meets strict academic or journal standards?” It’s a great question. I usually think of “voice” as style, and I...

Powerful Cognition – AI tools are changing academic research writing and text editing. This fact is irrefutable and unstoppable, and it is not only happening in the future or today, it has been happening ever since the first computers were booted up, during World War...

Academia & PublishingUsing AI as a ToolAI Generated Image, Source: thispersondoesnotexist.comby Philip Harding, copyeditorNovember 1, 2025It might be easy to think of future publications as nothing more than spam, articles written by generative AI bots where the...

What is an ESL proofreader? Have you ever taught English as a Second Language? If you have, you may have been asked by a student or a colleague to proofread some of their English writing. If you agreed to help, I’m sure you noticed that grammar mistakes, spelling...

Academia & PublishingPublishing Changes the WorldPhilip Harding, Copyeditor June 20, 2020The history of world civilization is marked by thousands of years of slow growth, followed by a rapid succession of revolutionary developments. In just a fraction of the time...