Academic Papers / Scientific Articles / Journal Submissions
Since 2014, I've been proofreading papers authored or co-authored by Dr. Michal Kosinski, a computational psychologist, big data scientist, and professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Specific tasks include:
Below are just some of the papers I proofread that were published in various internationally renowned journals:
Other details about the papers:
- Proofreading for spelling and grammatical errors
- Ensuring the paper conforms to the APA style guide
- Checking the bibliography and in-text citations
- Providing suggestions on style, flow, and clarity
Below are just some of the papers I proofread that were published in various internationally renowned journals:
- 2018: "Deep neural networks are more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation from facial images" | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 2017: "Facial Width-to-Height Ratio Does Not Predict Self-Reported Behavioral Tendencies" | Psychological Science
- 2017: "Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion" | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2017: "Editorial overview: Big data in the behavioral sciences" | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
- 2017: "Birds of a Feather Do Flock Together: Behavior-Based Personality-Assessment Method Reveals Personality Similarity Among Couples and Friends" | Psychological Science
- 2016: "Frankly, We Do Give a Damn: The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty" | Social Psychological and Personality Science
- 2016: "Mining Big Data to Extract Patterns and Predict Real-Life Outcomes" | American Psychological Association
- 2016: "Computational personality recognition in social media" | User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
- 2015: "Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines" | American Psychologist
- 2015: "Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans" | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Other details about the papers:
- Language: American English
- Style/tone: APA style, professional, informational, educational
- Target audience: academia, general public
- Industries/specialties: personality, crowdsourcing, psychological assessment, machine learning, data mining
Books: Non-Fiction & Children's Literature
The client is a bestselling author, online teacher, graphic designer, and entrepreneur. I had edited his previous book, so he asked me to work on his next one, Create the Website You Want with WordPress. ~ Language: American English ~ Style/tone: informational, engaging ~ Target audience: general public ~ Industries/specialties: passive income, business, online marketing View the book here. |
The client is a financier, entrepreneur, investor, trader, lecturer, and commodity analyst. In addition to several other editing projects, she asked me to work on her short ebook, Commodities Cheat Sheets: Key Facts for Traders and Investors. ~ Language: American English ~ Style/tone: formal, informational ~ Target audience: traders, investors, analysts, students, teachers, lecturer ~ Industries/specialties: investing, commodities, finance View the book here. |
The client is an international thought leader, information entrepreneur, and bestselling author. He required an editor to check his upcoming book, and I focused on the following: ~ Eliminating repetition ~ Correcting punctuation ~ Checking sentence structure ~ Ensuring language consistency ~ Cleaning up transcripts in the book ~ Catching formatting errors for paperback, Kindle, and Smashwords publishing ~ Language: American English ~Style/tone: informational, educational, engaging ~Target audience: students, borrowers, part-time employees ~ Industries/specialties: personal development, marketing, self-help, financial advice View the book here. |
The client is an author, elementary school teacher, and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. She required an editor to work on her upcoming children's picture book. I focused on: ~ Fine-tuning the story, and ensuring flow/continuity ~ Maintaining consistency in language and terminology ~ Suggesting minor changes to the story and characters ~ Language: American English ~ Style/tone: concise, engaging ~ Target audience: children, parents, jiu-jitsu practitioners ~ Industries/specialties: self-defense, jiu-jitsu, martial arts, early childhood education, children's literature View the book here. |
The clients is a bestselling author, online teacher, graphic designer, and entrepreneur. He was ready to publish his fourth book ("Build a Brand, Create Products and Earn Passive Income") and asked me to find typos, change the text from British English to American English, check for consistency in style, and implement other edits as needed. ~ Language: American English ~ Style/tone: informational, engaging ~ Target audience: general public ~ Industries/specialties: passive income, business, online marketing View the book here. |
The client is is a writer, astrologer, and health coach who has studied and practiced modern astrology for nearly three decades. She had previously used another editor but needed someone to copy-edit the revised sections of her manuscript. She also had a specific terminology style guide, which I ensured was applied consistently in the text. ~ Language: American English ~ Style/tone: informational, engaging ~ Target audience: general audience ~ Industries/specialties: astrology, counseling, personal growth View the book here. |