Mellon Pathways to a Diverse Faculty - Ideas on Fire Survey

The Mellon Pathways on a Diverse Faculty initiative is looking to expand services to current and past faculty participants and this includes providing you with editing services with Ideas on Fire. Ideas on Fire is an academic editing and indexing agency offering editing, book indexing, and online courses for interdisciplinary scholars.

In order to confirm services with this organization, at your earliest convenience, we ask you to please indicate below what services you are most interested in receiving so that we can determine the costs that the Mellon initiative can cover and the estimated timeline for providing the services. Please complete the short 5-minute survey below.

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First and Last Name *

What is the type of manuscript you'd like edited?: (please note that we do not edit grant proposals or tenure/promotion materials) *

What is the title of the manuscript you'd like edited? A provisional title is fine. *

What is the word count of the manuscript(s) you'd like edited? An estimate is fine. *

Which of the following types of editing would you like? *

Developmental editing: Big-picture editing of your content—argument, analysis, organization/structure, engagement with sources, and authorial tone. Developmental editing helps you foreground your argument and assemble all the pieces in a clear narrative arc. You get one round of in-text edits on the manuscript using Track Changes in Microsoft Word and a separate editorial report addressing the manuscript’s strengths and areas for improvement, large-scale revision recommendations, and section-specific advice on strengthening the text.

Copyediting: Detailed editing of your writing—sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, consistency, typos, and citation formatting. Copyediting helps you polish a draft to ensure your ideas are what shine. You get one round of in-text edits on the manuscript using Track Changes in Microsoft Word and a separate style sheet that we use to ensure consistency across the manuscript. You can keep the style sheet for your records or forward it along to your publisher as needed.

Manuscript review: One manuscript review report that outlines the manuscript’s key interventions and primary audiences; provides big-picture revision advice for the book’s narrative arc, argument, structure, and scholarly engagement; and offers chapter-by-chapter revision advice. Also includes one publisher research report identifying 5 US academic presses that we recommend you pitch your book to, complete with each press’s relevant areas of acquisition, proposal submission requirements, review process, series your book would be a good fit for, and acquisition editor contact information.

Book proposal editing: Developmental editing (editing of content) and copyediting (editing of writing) of your book proposal draft. (This only covers the draft, not any manuscript chapters, cover letters, etc.) You get one round of in-text developmental edits and copyedits on the proposal; one style sheet; one editorial report addressing the proposal’s fit with the book proposal genre, strengths, and areas for improvement; and one publisher research report identifying 5 US academic presses that we recommend you pitch your book to, complete with each press’s relevant areas of acquisition, proposal submission requirements, review process, series your book would be a good fit for, and acquisition editor contact information.

Approximately when would you have the manuscript ready for editing between May 2022–June 2023? *

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