I am a PhD candidate in the field of Geoinformatics, and I am expected to submit articles in related ISI journals. During the last years, Helena and Isabella Merschdorf have helped me with the English proofreading of my manuscripts, including grammar corrections, formatting, and commenting on my manuscripts, all of which helped me to better clarify my arguments and to improve the quality of the manuscripts. They also helped my sister, who is doing her PhD in the field of solid-state physics, with the English of her manuscript, including corrections and formatting, and getting her manuscript to be “accepted without change” in the related ISI journal. Hereby, I thank them for all the work they have done for my sister and me, to save our time, and let us submit our manuscripts with more confidence to the journals. Thanks, Helena and Isabella, I am very grateful for your help, and I will use your services again. I highly recommend them to academics to save their time and have higher quality work.
The great staff from TALES has done the proofreading of all of my manuscripts, conference papers, proposals for research grants and presentations since 2011 and They did the proofreading of my PhD Thesis in 2015. I already published three papers with good comments about the quality of the English from the reviewers. Two more papers are in major revisions; the conference papers have always been being accepted, I got the research grant that I applied in 2013, with the support of the TALES team. They always go beyond the correction of grammar, they also make valuable recommendations to improve the coherence of the content and last but not least, they are always on time and available for short notice proof-reading and further questions. Based on my experience, I strongly recommend you the services of this company.
Both Isabella and Helena have edited my PhD manuscripts throughout the years, and I have always been exceptionally happy with their service. They have really helped me to improve the quality of my writing and thus helped my work to get published in indexed journals. They respond quickly to enquiries, and short deadlines have also never been an issue. I have always had an entirely pleasant experience with TALES and really appreciate the professional services and advice.
The company provides outstanding proofreading service for a fair and competitive price. I am extremely pleased with their work in terms of quality and timely completion.
During my studies at the University of Salzburg, I took additional lessons on academic writing taught by Isabella Merschdorf. English is not my native language, and my master program was in English. Thus, I needed some assistance on writing grammatically and stylistically correct reports and seminar papers. In addition, we had small groups of international students gathering together with Isabella and practising our English speaking skills. I enjoyed these meetings a lot!
Grammatically correct language and concise expressions facilitate successful communication, in my opinion. As I am a non-native English speaker, the editing of scientific texts through Helena has significantly improved the presentation of the content. The collaboration with Helena worked very smoothly, as she responded in a timely manner and provided diligent revisions to the text. I will definitely ask her for her services again.
It is hard to find really professional people in their field, especially in an academic language editing. But I was lucky to find Isabella and Helena, who helped me to adapt to the scientific world. I am incredibly grateful to this group for their support and high professional skills which made it possible to raise my academic language knowledge to the upper level. They can find a unique approach to each client and thus produce the most satisfactory results from this collaborative work. It was a pleasure to work with such incredible team of professionals!
Since I am not an expert in the field of English linguistics and since the English language is the third language for me, I think it is necessary for me to use professional editing services when writing my papers. I used the services of TALES during my Master studies to edit my project documentations and essays. They did their work in a quite short time and very professionally. I was glad to work with them and definitely will continue using their services.
I have worked with both Helena and Isabella several times to get the English of my manuscripts into excellent publishable shape. As English is my second language, I am often unsure about correct grammar usage and how to best express my thoughts. Helena and Isabella have always really taken the time to collaboratively improve my work, kindly giving me many general and specific tips and valuable feedback so that I have really been able to learn a lot in the process. I will gladly continue to utilize their services and am more than happy to recommend them to anyone looking for a great, personal editing service.
As a researcher from China, I am experiencing increasing pressure to get my manuscripts published in English. Since English is my second language, linguistic mentality problems like the word-to-word translation of traditional Chinese expressions into English have led to unprofessional or redundant content in my manuscripts. Helena and Isabella have helped me a lot in formalizing and verbalizing alternative interpretations of my research questions and findings, in order to express them in an attractive way. They really pay attention to the discipline-specific differences of my methodologies, encourage me to compose my ideas in a constructive manner, and ensure that my manuscripts are well organized, following a clear and uniform style. Through their extensive help, I have gradually learned to avoid expression errors in my papers, for example, keeping in mind never to write a sentence longer than 40 words. Just as the motto that they gave to me: Never stop learning. Writing English for me is the lifetime skill that needs to be practised.
I had the pleasure to work with the two founders of this company years ago at the university where they both helped to significantly improve the publication level at our department and worked with PhD students and Postdocs on replies to editors and reviewers. TALES provides excellent services in the field of academic publishing!
TALES – Awesome team of young professionals who helped me during my PhD studies by correcting my manuscripts. Not only that they checked the grammatical structures but also greatly improved my writing by providing me with to the point advices on how to better structure and organize. It is also worth mentioning a hearty smile and good atmosphere while working with them. They are packed with motivation and ready to answer all your questions and doubts. You need more convincing? At the end of my PhD studies I have 8 published manuscripts which were never edited for grammar and writing by the publishing source! I think that tells a lot. Highly recommended!