Jaya Dalal

Jaya Dalal – Editor

24 years of experience in the academic publishing industry in the fields of social sciences and humanities.

Overview

Almost 25 years ago when I started my career as a copyeditor I did not realize how much I would come to cherish reading, learning from, and editing manuscripts. Every manuscript is a fresh canvas--to be polished and perfected before it is presented to the world in its most perfect form possible. I went on to hone my skills at the Columbia Publishing Course in New York and in the years since I have worked on hundreds of manuscripts from business, economics, sociology, history to philosophy books, and hope to continue working on hundreds more--perhaps yours will be the next one! I am told I am like that person who must make sure the picture frame on the wall is perfectly straight--might be annoying in some scenarios, but when it comes to your manuscript, this attitude helps me make sure every "i" is dotted, every reference is correctly cited, every word fits where it should.
Services
Non-Fiction
Business & Management Economics History Political Science & Current Affairs Sociology
Languages
English (CAN) English (UK) English (US)

Work experience

De Gruyter

Aug, 2017 — Present

Taylor and Francis

Jan, 2005 — Jan, 2017 (about 12 years)

Southern Realty

Jun, 2002 — Jan, 2005 (over 2 years)

Sage Publications

Feb, 1997 — Oct, 2001 (over 4 years)

Jaya has 4 reviews

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Dr. Sherice Janaye N.

Dr. Sherice Janaye N.

Jan, 2022

Jaya was excellent! Ad an academic professor who relies on accurate proof reading, I will definitely be using her services again!
Jaya D.
Thank you Dr. Nelson! It was a pleasure working with you on your excellent piece of work.
Srinivas G.

Srinivas G.

Oct, 2021

Jaya is very professional in her work and attempts to understand the intent of the author while editing. Her work is very accurate.
Srinivas G.

Srinivas G.

Oct, 2021

Excellent professional work from Jaya!
Jaya D.
Thanks Srinivas! It was a pleasure working with you on your project.
Ghadah A.

Ghadah A.

Sep, 2021

Communication with Jaya was great. She was punctual. However, formatting (e.g, paragraph spacing ) wasn’t consistent through the articles I was hoping for more feedback.
Jaya D.
Thanks for your review Ghadah! It was a pleasure working with you. As per your brief, I provided copyediting and proofreading services on an urgent basis with a 2 day deadline. If the request had ...
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