Virtual Schoolmarm:
Fixed-Cost Packages for Students
Sunny Words understands that undergraduate and graduate students have special needs when it comes to writing assistance. The Virtual Schoolmarm line offers commonly requested student writing services at reasonable rates.
Please note: Sunny Words believes in the educational value of student-produced writing and does not condone essay-exchange or writing-for-hire services for students of any level. Students looking for someone to do the research and writing for them will find that Sunny Words offers nothing of interest.
But undergrad and graduate students who have already drafted and first-edited an academic paper and wish to improve it further are more than welcome. If you seek writing assistance from a professional with experience in teaching, writing, and editing, this service is designed for you.
For Virtual Schoolmarm packages, the following terms apply in addition to the regular Sunny Words terms.
- Signed contract, student-client materials, and 50% deposit must be received before work can begin.
- Completed work will be returned to student-client within one week of receipt of signed contract, client material, and 50% deposit.
- If student-client so chooses, s/he may resubmit the same paper to Sunny Words for a second review after implementing first review recommendations. There is no extra charge for a second review. Third and following reviews may be ordered at an hourly rate of US$60.
- If at any point work claimed by student-client to be original is discovered to have been plagiarized, contract will be canceled, payment returned, and the incident reported to academic authorities immediately.
Undergrad Writing Critique Package
Undergrad Paper Mini-Editing Package
Graduate Thesis Editing Package
Undergrad Writing Critique Package
What you provide:
- complete draft that has been self-edited at least once, including references, footnotes, and/or works cited or endnotes pages if research or quotation is involved
- a copy of the course instructor's guidelines for the paper
- a list of any specific concerns you have about the assignment
- provide comments on the overall relevance and effectiveness of the writing in terms of the instructor's requirements
- list suggestions for improvement of the writing in general
- note any specific language, grammar, spelling, and usage errors that tend to be a recurring problem in this paper, if applicable
- address the student's listed concerns directly, with examples, suggested resources, and recommendations provided as applicable
This package applies to factual personal essays and research reports only; poetry, short stories, scripts, or other forms of creative writing are not eligible.
Although undergrads of any level are welcome to engage Sunny Words for this package, it is designed primarily with a student completing a freshman-level writing course in mind.
Package cost: US$8 per 100 words
Undergrad Paper Mini-Editing Package
What you provide:
- complete draft that has been self-edited at least once, including a references page if research or quotation is involved
- a copy of the course instructor's guidelines for the paper
- provide comments on the overall relevance and effectiveness of the writing in terms of the instructor's requirements
- list suggestions for improvement of the writing in general, if applicable
- provide editing comments relevant to content, completeness, accuracy, organization, and focus
- proofread and provide corrections for specific punctuation, spelling, grammar, dialect conformity, usage, and typographical errors
This package applies to factual personal essays and research reports only; poetry, short stories, scripts, or other forms of creative writing are not eligible.
Please note that this is a "mini-editing" package. Sunny Words provides full proofreading but not full editing for undergrad writing. Editing input is limited to improvement suggestions, questions to consider, and source recommendations intended to guide the student toward discovering his own writing solutions. After receiving the Sunny Words editing comments, the student will need to implement these suggestions and perform another round of editing himself before submitting the final draft of the paper.
Package cost: US$12 per 100 words
Graduate Thesis Editing Package
What you provide:
- complete draft that has been self-edited at least once, including a complete references/sources list
- any separate figures tables, charts, appendices, or indices that are intended to be included in the final thesis
- fully edit thesis for completeness, clarity, sentence structure, organization, diction, and accuracy of language
- note any sections that are slim in content, and recommend what type of content would be helpful (examples, definitions, anecdotal evidence, statistics, charts, etc.)
- check in-text statistics and figures against included tables, charts, etc. for consistency
- proofread entire work and provide corrections for punctuation, spelling, grammar, dialect conformity, usage, and typographical errors
- proofread references for consistent formatting according to your field's preferred style guidelines (e.g., APA)
- edit entire work for consistency of format including typography, pagination, margins, etc.
Although Sunny Words will check for and note any apparent surface inconsistencies in numerical data within the document, this package should not be assumed to include a check of statistical calculations.
Package cost: US$350