Copy editing by a
historian for historians
Why historians need
a copy editor
History writing takes a lot of forms, but they all benefit from copy editing. Typographical and grammar errors, poorly formatted citations, inconsistencies, and unclear writing undermine your credibility and confuse and distract readers. When you lose your readers even for a sentence, your work fails to achieve its full potential.
Before your work gets to readers, have it polished by a copy editor who is also a fellow historian.
My experience will enable me to spot problems specifically related to history writing and help you to ensure your work fits the historical genre you are working in.
Copy Editing Services
I will work with you to clean up your manuscript at the end of the writing process. That includes the following:
Check the text, footnotes or endnotes, captions, table of contents, headers, and footers for inconsistencies and typographical, grammatical, and spelling errors
Conform the text to The Chicago Manual of Style
Ensure citation format follows The Chicago Manual of Style
Alert the writer to instances of wordy or unclear language and suggest alternatives
Let the writer know about any factual errors I notice (my expertise in American history makes me particularly adept at noticing historical errors)
I work on a range of historical writing, including:
Memoirs
Family histories
Local histories
Blogs
Articles
Biographies
Monographs
Textbooks
Interested in learning more?
To request an estimate or ask about how I can help you to prepare your writing for publication, contact me by clicking the button below.
About Me
I’m Daniel Fischer, the A La Carte Scholar. I founded this copy editing enterprise as a way to offer some of the skills and knowledge of an academic historian outside the university.
“I’ve worked with few editors better than Dan Fischer. He attends to both form and content, bringing his brains—and a background in journalism—to even the driest tasks.”
— Patrick Williams, Arkansas Historical Quarterly