About The Expert Editor
The Expert Editor is an Australian professional editing and proofreading company, founded in Melbourne in 2012.
We provide editing and proofreading for students and academics, book authors and businesses. Our service combines experienced human editors with an exclusively online operation, helping us remain efficient, flexible and affordable. You can read more about the two key features of our business model.
Our story
The Expert Editor was founded by Brendan Brown. A writer before he became an editor, Brendan had used professional editing services himself and believed there was a better way to provide them: operate entirely online, match each document with an appropriately experienced editor, and make professional editing more accessible to students and first-time authors.
The company grew quickly and attracted coverage in BRW magazine. In 2014, the same editing practice expanded internationally through our sister site, Global English Editing.
Today, The Expert Editor is part of Brown Brothers Media and works with thesis writers, academics, book authors and businesses throughout Australia.
Meet our editors
Our client work is completed by qualified professional editors, including PhD and Master’s graduates and publishing-industry professionals. Our editors are based in Australia, are native English speakers and have experience across academic, book and business editing.
We match each document with an editor whose background suits the project. You can learn more about how we recruit and assign editors on our Editors page.
The company is led by founder and chief editor Brendan Brown, together with editor Graeme Brown. They oversee the standards applied to our client work and the material published on this website. You can read more about them on our Masthead.
Our services
Students and academics
We provide thesis editing, journal article editing, essay editing and academic proofreading.
Authors and publishers
Our services for authors include book editing, book proofreading and manuscript assessment.
Businesses and professionals
We provide confidential business editing and proofreading for reports, proposals, website copy and other professional documents.
Not sure which service your document needs? Read how our process works or submit your document for a quote. There is no obligation to proceed.
Our blog
Years of editing theses, manuscripts and business documents meant we kept encountering the same practical questions: What do the different kinds of editing actually involve? What should a writer expect from an editor’s report? How should a draft be prepared for editing?
Rather than answering those questions one email at a time, we started writing the answers down. That is what our blog is, and what it has been since 2013.
The blog is focused on editing and language. Every article is reviewed and approved by one of the editors on our Masthead before it goes live. AI tools are a substantial part of how we produce the blog: they help find and organise sources, draft, edit, check facts and links, and audit published work, and they may produce much of an initial draft. Our articles carry one of two bylines. A named byline means that person wrote the article and approved its publication under their name; most named articles are by our Masthead editors, Brendan Brown and Graeme Brown. On older articles from our archive, a named byline identifies the original author, and an editor’s note at the top of the article records when it was revised and by whom. The Expert Editor Editorial Team byline means the article was produced through our collective editorial process and makes no claim to personal experience or credentials. Important factual claims are supportable and important sources are linked. We say that we interviewed, contacted or investigated something only when we did. Our Editorial Standards page explains the process in more detail.
Ownership
The Expert Editor is a Brown Brothers Media company. Editorial decisions on this website are independent of advertisers, sponsors and other external parties.
The Expert Editor previously ran a student scholarship program, which is now closed.
