stockfresh_fountain_pen450BlueSky Academic Services has been providing quality English proofreading, editing, and translation to university professors, researchers, graduate students, and professionals since 2009. Chief editor Tim Craig is an experienced professional who covers all disciplines and provides prompt and personalized service.

BlueSky can help you with…

  • research papers
  • book manuscripts
  • conference and grant proposals
  • masters theses and doctoral dissertations
  • presentations
  • resumes and cover letters

Our editing service includes:

  • Copyediting—correcting spelling errors and typos, grammatical mistakes, punctuation, and word usage
  • Text editing—rewriting or rephrasing awkward or unclear sentences
  • Basic fact-checking
  • If requested, we also do formatting and help with revisions, including responding to reviewer comments.

BlueSky also does Japanese-to-English translation, including English translations of Japanese websites.

For proofreading and editing, BlueSky charges ¥4,200 per hour, or US$40 per hour for overseas customers. For Japanese-to-English translation, the standard charge is ¥15 per Japanese character. Payment may be made from a grant or university research account, by direct bank transfer, or by PayPal.

To request a no-obligation cost estimate, please contact BlueSky or email tcraig@blueskyacademic.net

Topic areas in which Dr. Craig has edited research papers, articles, or books include:

  • accounting
  • animation
  • anti-colonialism in Asia
  • business strategy
  • democratization in Turkey
  • economics
  • entrepreneurship
  • financial technology
  • gambling addiction
  • German childcare policy
  • glass sculpture and abstract animation
  • globalization and inequality in the Philippines
  • human resource management
  • information science
  • international labor standards
  • international trade
  • Japanese Americans in Hawaii
  • language education
  • law
  • literature
  • marketing
  • medical prescription safety
  • new business development
  • organizational culture and leadership
  • photography
  • sport
  • Sufism
  • synesthetic sound iconicity

BlueSky has provided editing and/or translation services to customers from these organizations:

  • Boğaziçi University
  • Charles Darwin University
  • Doshisha University
  • Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
  • Fosterlink, Inc.
  • Fukushima University
  • Hannan University
  • Hiroshima University
  • Istanbul Technical University
  • Kanazawa University
  • Kansai University
  • Keio University
  • Kobe University
  • Konan University
  • 薬のチェック (The Informed Prescriber)
  • Kwansei Gakuin University
  • Kyoto Prefectural University
  • Kyoto University
  • Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
  • KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival
  • Kyushu Sangyo University
  • Kyushu University
  • Nagaoka University of Technology
  • Nanzan University
  • Okayama University
  • OMRON Corporation
  • Otani University
  • Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
  • Ritsumeikan University
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Simon Fraser University
  • Smartvalue Co., Ltd.
  • SOAS, University of London
  • Tokushima University
  • Tokyo International University
  • Tokyo University
  • Toulouse Business School
  • University for Peace
  • University of Tsukuba
  • University of Victoria

Tim Craig, BlueSky Founder & EditorBlueSky founder and chief editor Tim Craig holds a Ph.D. in International Business and Business Strategy, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Biology, English, East Asian Studies, and International Management. He has 20-plus years’ teaching and research experience in top business schools in Canada and Japan, and an extensive publication record, including six books and numerous articles in academic and popular outlets. He speaks and reads Japanese fluently.