Hello there! I am Marieke, an academic copyeditor who works on journal articles, book manuscripts, and PhD dissertations. I improve your text’s grammar, punctuation, flow, and overall consistency. I check basic facts and logic. I format your document according to specific guidelines or a certain editorial style. I fix footnotes, citations, and bibliographies. Throughout all this, I maintain an open line of communication with my clients and consult with them about important style decisions. I work with the Chicago Manual of Style, Hart’s Rules (Oxford style), APA, MLA, Harvard, and others.

I am an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) and a member of the American Copyeditors’ Society (ACES) and SENSE, the Society of English-language professionals in the Netherlands. I have a Professional Editing Standards Certificate from Queen’s University, Canada and have taken many other copyediting training courses. I regularly enroll in new courses and attend webinars. You can find my resume here. This is my CIEP directory entry.

I have a PhD in Political Science and a strong background in Arabic, urban studies, geography, and the political economy of the Middle East. I obtained my MA from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon. I have published several academic journal articles and book chapters.