EDITING PHILOSOPHY
My editing philosophy is rather straight forward: it is your data and your voice that should be clearly evident in your writing, not mine. My job is to make sure that the reader can get just as excited as you about your work. I can clean up sentences and make sure your ideas are logically developed; I can check for errors or confusing wording. What I cannot do is judge the value of the science or its novelty, or guarantee funding. As far as I am concerned, your science is always exciting, novel, interesting and worthy of funding or publishing. I want to help you present it in such a way that every reader or reviewer ends up feeling the same way. I am just as passionate as you about your work. You may not always agree with my suggestions, but you will never be disappointed in my commitment to your work, and of course, your work is always confidential.
EDITING EXPERIENCE
I have substantial experience in editing grants and manuscripts in the following areas: molecular cardiology/electrophysiology, prion biology, mitochondrial biology (including steroidogenesis), reproductive biology and cell biology (particularly protein cycling), and more recently epidemiology and epigenetics. However, there is no area that I will not edit. I have a solid understanding of grant structures and processes, particularly NIH, and the clients whose grants I have edited are rarely triaged, though not all were funded. While I cannot guarantee that you will not be triaged or will get funding, I can guarantee that the reviewers will not complain about readability. The same is true for manuscripts. I cannot get you published, but the critique will be aimed at the science not at the writing.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Despite the company designation, PB Wright Scientific Editing is a one woman show, founded in 2013. It is my personal relationship with the authors, along with my extensive science background, that make this company special. My own background in the sciences starts with a B.Sc. in Botany from Michigan State University, with a special concentration on aquatic ecology. For the next 22 years, I was either a research assistant or student in a variety of fields including neurobiology, immunology, microbiology, phycology and history of science. When I left the laboratory in 1995, I was a laboratory manager in molecular virology. From 1995 to 2001, I had my own scientific graphics business. From 2001 until I retired in 2017, I was the assistant to the director of a research center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. That position included editing grants and manuscripts for the Center’s diverse faculty, including cell biology, cardiovascular biology, mitochondrial biology and prion biology, along with advising faculty on funding agencies. It was the editing part that I really, really enjoyed and that I wanted to continue to do, so I started a company to do that even before I had retired. I am a registered Federal business and a Maryland designated Small, Woman-owned business.