Dr Lewis Ward | Humanities dissertations, articles and books. Polishing non-native English.
London
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- Professional Member
About Lewis
I’ve been copyediting for nearly 15 years, specialising in the academic humanities and in polishing non-native English (including machine translations). With a PhD in English, I also teach literature and language in adult education. I have a mature and international outlook, equally at home working with students, academics, journalists, judges and barristers. Clients have praised my professionalism, flexibility, precision and patience.
I edit dissertations, articles, books and reports in the humanities, legal, environmental sectors.
I also have connections to Japan and some elementary knowledge of Japanese; I have worked with a number of organisations and academics from that country.
In-house and freelance experience
• Freelance since 2011
• Senior Editor, Thomson Reuters (Sweet & Maxwell), 2013 to 2023
Recent Clients
• Newgen Knowledge Works / Taylor & Francis (newgen.co)
• Charlesworth Group (cwauthors.com)
• Authors of PhD dissertations in art history, linguistics, literature etc
• Academics at Rikkyo University, Tokyo
• Marco Visscher, author and journalist (https://marcovisscher.com/)
• WePlanet (weplanet.org/) (formerly RePlanet)
• Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Training
• Copyediting 3 - Progress (CIEP), 2023
• Copyediting 2 - Headway (CIEP), 2022
• Proofreading Progress (SFEP), 2016
Qualifications
• PhD in English (Exeter, 2009)
• Associate Member of Advance HE
• BA (Hons) Literary Studies (First Class) (Portsmouth, 1998)
• MA Electronic Communication and Publishing (UCL, 1999)
• Cambridge CELTA certificate in teaching English as a foreign language (IH London, 2024)
Testimonials
"Working with him has been insightful and easy-going, as he is very professional and knowledgeable. I really enjoyed our collaboration." - Lucía Ferro, author
"Love the precision!" - Mark Lynas, author and founder of WePlanet
"Lewis is an excellent copy-editor whose services I’ve used for over 2 years on both small and large projects. I’ve worked with many copy-editors before him, and found Lewis to be very accurate and reliable. I greatly appreciate both his professionalism and flexibility. Never missing a deadline, Lewis can turn around work quickly when needed, while keeping great attention to detail. On occasion, Lewis had to work with fairly poor auto-translations, but he managed to turn even these into coherent and engaging texts. I have no hesitation in recommending Lewis for copy-editing." - Marco Visscher, author, editor
“Lewis is unusual in being able to map a project, understand exactly what is needed when and to follow through in great detail to the very end. He is precise, patient, efficient, analytical and creative in his approach. It is a very valuable set of skills!” - Maria Padget, communications consultant
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