About – The Thesis Doctor

I Am A U.S.-Based Academic Editor, Educator, and Coach.

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I hold advanced degrees and professional qualifications in Law (LL.B Hons, LL.M, PhD, FCIArb), Music (LTCL, LRSM), Communications, Organizational Behavior and Interdisciplinary fields in the Social Sciences, and earned my doctorate more than two decades ago from a top-ranked U.S. research university.

More importantly, I have an established track record for getting my clients to their first-choice destination, specifically:

What I Have Done

Taught and developed interdisciplinary courses (in-class, online, and hybrid) including Business Law & Ethics; Business, Government, & Society; Criminology; Equity & Trusts; Ethics & Moral Reasoning; Legal Research & Writing, Legal Theory; Medical Law & Ethics; and Property Law.
Received several excellence in teaching awards.
Held positions as Course Chair, Exam Chair, External Examiner, and Doctoral Dissertation Adviser.
Consistently maintained 100% successful and on-time doctoral completion rates with clients I coach, or whose dissertations I edit; over 95% successful doctoral and graduate law school applicants, many of whom received multiple admission offers, scholarships and funding; and over 90% success rate with postdoctoral and tenure-track applicants.

If you’ve come to this website, it’s likely because you’ve been referred by someone you trust.

I’ve heard numerous times from new clients that their department head (Dean, Director, or Provost) or dissertation adviser had made the referral. (That accounts for over 85% of my new clients.)

As an academic coach, I count among my most recent successes:

For the record: most of my clients remain clients for years (see here, here, here, and here). Some long-term clients have gone on to refer their doctoral students, so yes, the 2nd gen has been coming to me the last several years.

Spatial distance is never an issue. (If you need to know how, just ask.) Most of my clients live several time zones away from me: specifically, on five continents (and counting), and I’ve only met about 10% of those I’ve worked with over the years.

It doesn’t matter what your area of specialization is. I cover the breadth and depth of fields — from Architecture, to Environmental Sciences, Forestry, Law, Medicine, Theology, Zoology, and all other fields from “A” to “Z.” (The only fields I don’t typically work with are the Mathematical Sciences and Quantum Physics, though I do edit using LaTeX.

Since 1991, I Have Edited Over

Doctoral Research Proposals and Dissertations
Books, Chapters, and Book Proposals
Faculty Applications, Tenure Dossiers, and Teaching Statements
Grant Applications & Proposals
Journal Articles and Conference Papers
Job Market Papers, Position Papers & White Papers
University Course Materials and Textbooks
Op-Ed and Feature Articles

… and much, much more.

My Track Record Over 30 Years Include:

100% Successful Doctoral Completion Rates with those I coached or whose dissertations I edited, with Numerous Receiving “A” or “Highly Commended,” and/or Outstanding or Best Dissertation Awards.

100% Success With LL.M Applicants to Highly Selective Law Schools in Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the USA (all received two or more admission offers, and over 90% received merit-based scholarship offers)

Over 95% Client Applicants Received Doctoral Admission Offers from their First-Choice Universities, almost entirely Ivy League and Public Ivies in the United States, as well as Top 100 Universities Worldwide.

Additionally, over 90% of successful Doctoral applicants received Offers of Full Funding for 2 to 5 Years (see here and here).

Over 90% Success With Tenure-Track, postdoctoral and Visiting Scholar clients in the United States, as well as Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Singapore, Spain and Sweden.

Over 80% Success with Clients’ Grant Applications up to US$1 million.

Over 60% Success with clients’ Grant Applications in the US$1 million to US$5 million range.

I Am a Subject Matter Specialist in a Number of Unrelated Fields.
Expertise in both Substantive and Line Editing. (This goes far beyond proofreading or light editing.)
Extensive experience in Developmental, Substantive and Line Editing of academic books published by several university presses; academic, legal and trade publishers including Butterworths Law Books, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and W.W. Norton.
Indexing of books in the humanities, law, music, religion, and the social sciences.
Comprehensive and Up-to-Date Knowledge of various Citation Styles including AMA, APA, ASA, MHRA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, The Bluebook, The Indigo Book, The MaroonBook, and OSCOLA. (I taught Academic Writing for a number of years, and continue to teach Legal Research & Writing.)
Fluency in both American and British English.
Demonstrated Ability to Meet Very Tight Deadlines (see here and here).
I Speak Mandarin Chinese. I am acutely aware of differences in cultural and linguistic thought patterns, and I edit to ensure consistent and coherent Chinese-to-English phraseology, that intended and implicit meanings are accurately transmitted, and in an academic tone (see here, here, and here).
I Focus On What Needs To Be Done To Get You Done.
Your Concerns Are Safe With Me: I Am Empathetic, Ethical, and Non-Judgmental.
I Get Doctoral Students Out Of “The Rut” and, more importantly, DONE!

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I Am A U.S.-Based Academic Editor, Educator, and Coach.

What I Have Done

Since 1991, I Have Edited Over

My Track Record Over 30 Years Include:

I Get Doctoral Students Out Of "The Rut" and, more importantly, DONE!

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