Editorial Services

This company started as a technical editing service in 1993, and that service remains one of our core competencies. The owner has a science background, so we naturally attract science-based industries and organizations to our client base. Our pledge to add clarity, consistency, and accuracy to a document spills over into every other service we provide.

Over the years, we have edited a variety of document types, including technical books, reports, manuals, periodicals, newsletters, brochures, catalogs, calendars, research papers, Web sites, and databases. From simple proofreading to complete rewriting, we can provide any level of edit you require.

Browse the blue tabs above for an overview of editing projects from the past 5 years.

The Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) at Rice University, Houston, Texas, is at the cutting edge of research to discover and develop nanoparticles that enable new medical and environmental technologies. They are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and also have many industry and academic partners who are working to ensure the safe and efficient transfer of nanotechnology research into the marketplace. We assist CBEN in producing their annual and other milestone reports to the NSF; each are multiauthored and approximately 275 pages.

An extension of CBEN is the International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON), whose mission is to develop and communicate information regarding potential environmental and health risks of nanotechnology, thereby fostering risk reduction while maximizing societal benefit. We assist ICON in producing periodic reports to their main funding body, the NSF.

In addition to these projects, we have assisted the group at Rice with producing NSF proposals for new project funding.

For all of the above projects, we edit the report content, then lay out the document and produce a final PDF that the group can submit to NSF.

Working as a preferred contractor for Schlumberger Oilfield Services (SLB OFS) for more than 10 years, we edited a variety of books, technical papers, marketing materials, and Web sites. Reference books such as Fundamentals of Formation Testing were written for the oilfield technical professional to illustrate state-of-the-art technologies and provide field examples. Well Evaluation Conference Venezuela was a 350-page book written for the petroleum industry in Venezuela by SLB. Our editing on WEC Venezuela encompassed rough drafts to galley proofs, and the final product was an award winner.

We edited hundreds of technical papers presented by SLB authors at annual technical conferences, such as Society of Petroleum Engineers; SPE's International Health, Safety and Environment Conferences; and Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts.

For all editing projects, SLB has a well-defined style guide (the award-winning Schlumberger Communications Handbook) that we followed, which required rigorous attention to writing style, voice, punctuation, spelling conventions, acronym/unit conventions, reference style, headings, and graphic design. In addition to ensuring that corporate standards were met, we worked directly with authors to clarify content and ensure synergy between text and visuals. For technical papers, we also ensured that submission guidelines for each convening conference were met.