Top End Editing is an Australian-based editing service, specialising in academic theses, journal articles, and esoteric novels.
Top End Editing is an Australian-based editing service, specialising in academic theses, journal articles, and esoteric novels.
“Jeremy at Top End Editing provides something that is ‘next level’. He ripped through my thesis and gave it a polish that I could never have achieved. He timed his work to fit with mine; I’d send him a draft in the late afternoon and he’d reply with the edits the following morning. I was gobsmacked by how good he was. The support I felt was indescribable and I remain humbled with gratitude. ”
“You are very good at what you do. I use a lot of ‘ands’…”
“Quite a few people have said to me over the past few weeks how great Jeremy is and how lucky the students are to be able to access his services.”
Jeremy’s work was instrumental to the final editing and formatting of my PhD thesis. I was working under an unusually tight deadline and wouldn’t had made it with Jeremy’s input. He provided invaluable support, worked days (and nights!) to help me meet that deadline, and with a final product I could be proud of. My thesis would not have looked this professional without his guidance throughout the final stages. Jeremy communicated clearly and made relevant suggestions that improved the final manuscript, arising from an obvious experience editing academic work. He really made this stressful final stage of my PhD a lot more bearable and it was great working with him. :)
When have you ever found the perfect solution to a problem or challenge you are facing? If I’m honest it’s hardly ever! We find or cobble together ways of responding to life’s hurdles that enable us to move forward, accepting of the fact that not everything is resolved. We accept that we shouldn’t let ‘the perfect be the enemy of the good’. And the worse the problem, the lower we go, the more despairing we are – the more we are likely to agree to an imperfect solution.
But ‘hardly ever’ is not ‘never’ and I have had one outstanding example of the perfect: Jeremy at Top End Editing.
At the end of my PhD journey, which included all the typical struggles; financial troubles, family crises, COVID and communication breakdowns, I was feeling desolate at the prospect of editing my thesis. It was a complicated document including standard chapters and published papers tied together with linking sections that made it potentially awkward. In addition, I knew there were lots of typos, poorly constructed phrases and bibliographic errors. I also knew that I did not have the skill or the patience to fix them. I just wanted it over. I was so over it I came very close to just tossing the whole thing and moving on to something else.
And then a friend told me about Top End Editing and what can I say? Writing about misfortune and misery is easy (see above) writing about feelings of relief, release, gratitude and even exhilaration is hard. So, I’m not certain what to say. But it should include something about perfection and brilliant service.
Jeremy at Top End Editing provides something that is ‘next level’. He ripped through my thesis and gave it a polish that I could never have achieved. He timed his work to fit with mine; I’d send him a draft in the late afternoon and he’d reply with the edits the following morning. I was gobsmacked by how good he was. The support I felt was indescribable and I remain humbled with gratitude.
Top End Editing is my singular experience of a perfect solution. That I should have found it when I needed it the most was just luck. I hope that by sharing this story others can benefit from Jeremy’s amazing capacities before they get too deep into the mire!
“Guardian angel of the definite article”