ESL Proofreading for Non-Native English Authors

ESL proofreading isn't just grammar correction. We focus on the patterns that mark a text as non-native: article use, preposition choice, verb tense logic, awkward collocations, repeated sentence structures, and idiom misuse. The goal is English that reads naturally to a UK or international reader — without making your prose sound like every other manuscript on an editor's desk.

Many of our ESL clients are academics submitting to English-language journals or doctoral programmes; others are novelists translating their own work or writing directly in English for the first time. Whatever the context, you are matched to an editor with experience in your field and your level of intervention.

Heavy rewriting can flatten an author's personality into anonymous, AI-shaped prose. We do not do that. Where a sentence is correct but distinctive, we leave it alone. Where a sentence is unclear, we suggest the smallest change that fixes it. The result is fluent English that still reads like you.