“Kate is able to tackle highly technical subject matters providing suggestions for clarity and readability. She brings a fresh set of eyes and insight to our educational materials helping us ensure that not only are our products technically correct, but enjoyable for students to use.” ~Andrea Beukema, ESS Director of Educational Design & Development, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine
“I am a Norwegian PhD student writing my dissertation in English. I often find it difficult to communicate my findings and arguments, but Kate Kallal has a remarkable way of understanding what I mean to say. Her help has been priceless, and I give her my best recommendations.” ~Silje Dragsund Aase, PhD student, VID Specialized University, Norway
“I have been working with Kate Kallal since 2017. Most importantly, Kate is very thorough! She thinks about issues relevant to your grant proposal that you may not have thought about while you are writing the proposal. She asks questions like, “explain why this is important” or “why is this relevant to your proposed studies,” “how can you phrase this better”. Kate’s goal for a grantee is to boldly state why an issue is important to your grant, and how you can succinctly explain it.” ~Dr. Margaret Bynoe, Professor of Immunology, Cornell University
“Kate Kallal’s remarkable editing skills have helped my grant writing tremendously! She has an amazing ability to make the content clearer, more succinct, and more effectively conveyed. Both my grant proposal rate of success and the reviewer’s comments have improved with her help, for which I am eternally grateful. I have decided that I will not submit a grant proposal without getting her input, since I need the peace that comes from knowing that Kate and I have done our job to make the proposal its very best.” ~Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Professor of Virology, Cornell University
“Kate’s scientific editing clarified my complex writing and she asked questions to encourage me to think more deeply about significance and impact to improve the overall presentation of my grant. In addition to polishing my grant, she gave me tools and skills to improve my overall scientific writing. I was so impressed by her that I recruited her to help the early career faculty in my CU-PACE program.” ~Dr. Cynthia Leifer, Program Director for Cornell’s Program for Achieving Career Excellence (PACE)
“I am a professor of literature and Kate is simply one of the best editors I have worked with; she edited parts of my book as well as a more public-facing essay that was published immediately after her help. Kate is tremendous on many levels: she is wonderful at sharpening your argument, she can help make your prose more flowing and narrative, and she catches grammatical and syntactical flaws that you would have never identified. She is patient, attentive, and thoughtful and such a talented writer herself that it is no surprise that your work improves significantly after Kate’s help. I recommend her highly!” ~Dr. Jennifer Spitzer, Professor of Modern Literature, Ithaca College
“Kate did a wonderful job! I was happy with the edits. Kate is an efficient, professional, and compassionate editor. Kate Kallal’s editing service improved the clarity of my grant proposal’s language and help me get funded. I will not hesitate to ask her again if I have other projects in need of editorial work. I recommend this service to early career stage scientists who do not have much grant writing experience. Thank you, Kate, for your excellent work!” ~Dr. Jeongmin Song, Professor of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Cornell University
“I hired Kate to help edit an academic book I was writing. Kate gave timely and incredibly useful big picture feedback during the early stages of writing, when my co-authors and I were developing an analytic strategy for the book. She has superb attention to detail and can offer feedback for the technical or developmental aspects of your writing project. I would definitely hire her again!” ~Dr. Joslyn Brenton, author of Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It
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