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Originally Posted by rhadin
It is not difficult to find a "professional" editor -- there are hundreds of thousands of them. The difficulty is in determining how professional they truly are; there are no standards in the profession.
And you get what you pay for. You can pay less than $10 a page but have to settle for fewer services and scrutiny; similarly, you can pay significantly more than $20 a page, but you get much greater scrutiny and services. It's like choosing a car -- you can buy a Yugo (remember them?) which will get you from A to B (at least sometimes) very cheaply, or a Rolls Royce, which will also get you from A to B, but with significantly better reliability and comfort.
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Our resident word smith has a point. But, that begs the question of whether or not he's a professional