As an avid reader and obsessive writer, I know how to appreciate good writing and have had occasion over the years to edit a significant number of articles, essays, papers, and blogs, not only in my academic work&nbsp;at Harvard, Oxford, and Union Theological Seminary, but also in my own freelance and independent writing projects. I was an editor for two journals at Harvard, where I graduated&nbsp;<em>magna cum laude</em> with highest honors in the comparative study of religion, and took full advantage of the opportunity to take classes with some of the best literary critics and scholars of English language&nbsp;in the United States, including Helen Vendler, Louis Menand, and Philip Fisher. For both my bachelor's and master's degrees, I wrote substantial theses that earned the highest possible grades and required not only significant&nbsp;editing, but also scrupulous citation and extensive familiarity with current academic standards of citation. Reading, writing, and editing remain&nbsp;the centerpieces of my work as a current doctoral student at Union Theological Seminary, where I have continued to develop my technical abilities&nbsp;not only through coursework, but also through large independent writing projects, which have so far included well over 1,000 pages of essays and papers. In my editing as in my writing, I pay scrupulous&nbsp;attention not only to the more general issues of clarity, consistency, flow, structure, variety, and organization, but also to the rather more gritty&nbsp;technical details of grammar, syntax, spelling, and punctuation.&nbsp;I have consistently scored well on standardized writing tests. I received a perfect (800/800) score on the SAT writing section (2009), and scored in the 99th percentile (169/170) on the verbal section of the GRE (2015). As meticulous as I try to be about the details of writing, my aim in editing is never to rudely impose my own thoughts, but always&nbsp;to help a writer express his or her own ideas&nbsp;with greater force, clarity, and precision. Having&nbsp;recently&nbsp;undergone the torturous process of applying to higher education programs, I am especially&nbsp;familiar with application essays, resumes, and purpose statements; and am more than happy to help applicants with these.&nbsp;