Emma Parfitt has demonstrated experience in proofreading, authorship & writing ...
She loves green tea (Please don’t take it personally Earl Grey).
When not editing the work of academics or authors, Emma is a British-Scottish author of historical fiction. Her writing has been featured on Radio 2, and won second place in the Just Imagine short story competition with her story A Traveller’s Daughter.
Otherwise, she’s probably hiding in the crowd at a storytelling festival …
Emma Parfitt: Elevating Your Words with Creativity, Expert Proofreading and Academic Insight.
… or avoiding social media.
Background in literature, oh, and conservation biology!
Emma says, “Since childhood I’ve loved stories and rambling in the woods. Putting pen to paper, words used to be (before I knew better) those annoying things to spell that got in the way of a good story! Later, a deeper understanding of spelling, punctuation and grammar grew when Professor Douglas Dunn taught me the necessity of the English language’s building blocks.
“Despite deciding to go into conservation work when I was 18, I swerved away from that. Because the things I love most in life are reading, writing and storytelling. My love of narrative has opened worlds of experience to me, meeting people from all walks of life. And led me back to writing for a living: where I am happy helping other people craft and improve their prose.”
Emma Parfitt is the author of several books
Young people, learning & storytelling in Palgrave MacMillan’s alternative education series, along with A Gypsy’s Curse (historical fiction with a fairytale twist), A Friendship of Thistles (a contemporary novel set about friendship set in Edinburgh),Seascape (contemporary fairy tales based on storytelling research), Shattered Roses (a Beauty and the Beast retelling), Wee Stories (two books with entertaining tales for children) and Temptation & Mozzarella (a Scottish-based comedy).
You’ll find them listed under E.L. Parfitt instead of Emma Parfitt.
Native English speaker
If English is not your first language, I can help organise and improve your English with editing and proofreading so that the final document reads as if it was written by a native-English speaker. I’m a highly educated English-native speaker (PhD level) with experience of alternative education, corporate finance, English literature, life sciences, sociology and politics, and creative writing. If you work in a particular subject area and want to know if I’ve proofread in that field before please don’t hesitate to ask. I largely provide PhD thesis proofreading services, but you'll also find me reading master's dissertations, essays, reports and other business documents alongside doctoral theses.
UK & US language competency
My time conducting research with the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) at the University of Warwick taught me writing skills related to publishing academic papers and books, and the differences between US and UK English. I spent additional time working within the educational department at The University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and the storytelling charity Neighborhood Bridges (based in Minneapolis). I am also an intermediate French speaker (B1).
