Formed in 1998, we are a network of graduate professors, research methodologists, and academic editors.
Our experience serving as graduate committee members—and our combined reading, critiquing, evaluating, and editing of thousands of theses, dissertations, and capstones—provides us with an insider’s perspective that will help you complete your master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation, or capstone project and earn your degree.
We offer one-on-one, personalized thesis, dissertation, and capstone consulting services to help you produce a research proposal, thesis, dissertation, or capstone project that conforms to scholarly writing standards and that is earned legitimately.
We work with U.S. and international students, from both campus-based and online universities: American InterContinental University (AIU), Capella University, Colorado Technical, DeVry University Online, Everest College, Herzing University, Kaplan University, University of Phoenix, Walden University, Nova Southeastern, Strayer, Ashford … and many others.
REBECCA ANDREWS holds a PhD in Biometrics and Statistics with specialization in non-parametric methods. With over 20 publications, she is the co-author and the biostatistician of studies published in top rank medical journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) and Pediatric Emergency Care and Vaccine.
During her graduate years she worked as a fellow researcher at the London School of Economics. After she earned her doctorate Dr. Andrews worked as biostatistician at Columbia University Medical Center and at the Mailman School of Public Health. During her extensive career as biostatistician she has advised many graduate students with their dissertations in the fields of medicine, sociology, nursing, and psychology.
- Expert in mobile health (conducted the first largest randomized clinical trials in the country to determine the impact of text messaging to improve immunization rates and medication adherence in hard-to-reach populations).
- Conducted research in clinical pediatrics (immunizations, URIs, obesity).
- Expertise applying hierarchical models to complex data structures.
- Bilingual Spanish-English; able to translate/adapt surveys or other data collection into Spanish.
Dr. Andrews walks her students through all the steps needed for completing solid and sound research: (1) formulating the study hypothesis; (2) selecting and collecting data (e.g., interviews, surveys, administrative records); (3) designing a sample plan (simple random, systematic, stratified or clustered sampling, or more complex designs); (4) database structure; (5) data cleaning and consistency checks; (6) appropriate analysis from data description and bivariate analysis (student t-test, chi-square, McNemar test of marginal homogeneity) to multivariable analysis (linear regressions, MANOVA, mixed-effects or multilevel models). She helps students select the most appropriate techniques given the nature of their data—continuous or categorical variables, small or large samples.
Dr. Andrews has expertise in working and programming with various statistical packages such as SPSS and SAS and Stata.
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JEFF KARON is a writer, teacher, proofreader, and consultant who has helped students and professionals for over twenty years. He has edited, revised, and proofread publications that include reports, theses, dissertations, textbooks, proposals, essays, stories, and articles. His Ph.D. is in English with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition, a choice that signals his devotion to clarity and power in language. Prior to his years as an English professor, he studied and taught philosophy, critical thinking, and logic, publishing in these fields as well as in literary studies. He also is a published poet and essayist; he was a finalist in the Sandhill Review/St. Petersburg Times 2010 essay contest. He has led writing and editing workshops for students, teachers, business people, and artists. Currently, he is leading creativity workshops and developing ways to build honor in the classroom and workplace.
As a writer and teacher, he believes that we should strive for excellence by practicing effective and fair techniques at all times. He has combined a life-long interest in the martial arts with writing: if you choose to work with him, he will ensure that your writing is powerful, not merely competent.
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CAROL LEVINE has B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and more than 25 years of experience as a writer, editor, English instructor, writing coach, and APA format expert. As the Writing Specialist for the University of Phoenix for 17 years, she worked extensively with students in the Master of Counseling, Master of Education, and MBA programs. In this role, she provided editorial assistance and APA format expertise to graduate students completing master’s theses and business research projects. Carol also developed and conducted numerous workshops on the use of APA format for University of Phoenix students and faculty members (e.g., The ABCs of APA; APA Formatting: From Soup to Nuts; APA: Changes in the Fifth Edition Manual) and earned the unofficial title of “APA Queen.”
Carol has personal content knowledge in the areas of education, psychology, workforce and economic development, and animal behavior and service-dog training. In all of her writing and editing work, Carol focuses on accuracy, correct usage, readability, consistency, and adherence to the required format. Carol is not only an APA format expert. She is also a meticulous proofreader who takes pride in spotting errors that are overlooked by spell check programs, as well as a skilled editor with a vocabulary that enables her to complete the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle. She is highly efficient, never misses a deadline, and is comfortable doing either paper or electronic editing.
CHRISTINE D. TOMEI, PhD, was a professor in departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She is currently working in academic research. Her book, Russian Women Writers (Garland Press, 1999) met with widespread critical acclaim and has become a standard reference in the field. It was also awarded the Heldt Prize for Best Book in 1999.
She has assisted graduate students at all levels in the preparation and presentation of research for over 10 years, with considerable success. Some of her students/advisees have gone on to win awards themselves.
Courses taught: Freshman humanities, general education, English as a second language, Russian language; Russian romanticism & realism, women in Russia and the U.S.S.R., the silver age in Russia, Soviet socialist realism, Soviet film, nineteenth-century literature, Russian intellectual history, twentieth century, Russian literature, nineteeth-century Russian literature, Russian folklore.
BARBARA von DIETHER has an Ed.D. from Brigham Young University and was the graduate research and writing coordinator at Utah State University for 12 years. She counseled over 300 students a year who were seeking help with the graduate process, and published a Publication Guide for Graduate Students (Utah State University Press, 1980).
She was the final editorial review for theses and dissertations from 54 departments. She has an M.Ed. from Utah State University in education technology. President of the Utah Conference of the American Association of University Professors, she met with the Board of Regents and college and university presidents to resolve faculty conflicts. She wrote grants for research funding that supported graduate students.
“In the short time that you have helped me, I have a proposal that my advisor thinks is one of the best he has ever seen.”
“You are my personal ANGEL and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I prayed for help and you came into my life.” — George
“I am walking on the clouds. Thanks to you, I have been granted the title, Doctor of Education by Oklahoma State University. Thanks for your wonderful assistance.” —Ken Kilgore“
My advisor turned down my research proposal for over a year! Then I hired Barbara to edit and advise. The fantastic bonus was the advice about how to manage my advisor! It smoothed a bad relationship, he passed my proposal, and I am now collecting my data!” —Edward Gomez, 2007
“I did it! I passed! It was an unconditional pass from all faculty members! The head of my department said it was one of the top 3 defenses he has ever seen and probably one of the most professional presentations ever… and he has been doing this for over 20 years!”
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