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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could help: does anyone know of a service where you can submit PhD level work to have it read/marked (privately/anonymously). I don't want to meet with a tutor, but I'm a PhD candidate (first year) on the brink of submitting a lot of work and I would really like to get an indication of the quality before I submit internally to my department.
I'm in the humanities, so would obviously need a specialist. Just wondered if anyone had ever used a service like this?

Thanks
xx

======= Date Modified 19 Jun 2009 14:16:24 =======

To be honest, I have not heard of that before (for PhD level). As I understand you are not worried about the English, but the content, right? I know that sometimes you can get support for academic writing, but that would be non-specialists giving advice on the writing (English). All I could think of would be to ask a PhD/postdoc to read it for you, maybe a PhD/postdoc friend?.. I know there is a temptation to get feedback anonymously, but you also need to have confidence in the person who gives the feedback (that it is appropriate, measured, "true")..

I'm confused about whether you're asking about copy-editing or having someone actually look at the substance/content of your research.

But assuming you're talking about proofing/copy-editing, then the vast majority of uni's allow this (but do check your regulations, some don't).

If you're referring to having a professional look at the quality of your work with respect to the content/commenting on the depth of your research etc, then that is not allowable, but it would probably be impossible to find someone with the same subject knowledge to do that anyway.