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Academic & Writing Consultation

Consultation service for doctoral students and professionals
For basic package fees, click here

'Kind but critical' support for all stages of your research, drafts, and writing processes

Academic Consulting: Early to Mid-Phase Dissertations

50 minute sessions

I provide tailored, attuned support for dissertation proposal & dissertation drafts, particularly for qualitative, hybrid, and theoretical studies. In consulting sessions, here are some examples of issues we will work on together:

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  • Creating a realistic timeline / timeline accountability and support

  • Research question or thesis - refinement as needed or as study evolves

  • Presentation of chapters or of sections within a chapter (i.e. attention to overall structure and order of manuscript, as well as within a chapter)

  • Methodology: selecting and explaining your intended methodology and methods

  • Literature review: parameters of your literature review coverage and its presentation 

 

Second order concerns & issues we can also address as needed in your sessions:

  • Syntax and grammar

  • APA style feedback*

Majal Logan, MBA, Philadelphia

"Writing my dissertation proposal during a pandemic has not been easy. All the anxieties I had about the writing process, however, were alleviated in the first session with Chrysalis. She equipped me with the tools I needed to impact my audience in a more meaningful way. Over the course of our sessions, I watched as the ideas I initially struggled to type transform into a research project that I could finally realize and act on."
Majal Logan

*This is not comprehensive APA technical editing. Rather, I provide explanations on erroneous formatting via Comments (e.g., in-text citation formatting, heading styles and formatting requirements, etc).

Professional Writing, Presentations, & Editing

Checking Text on a Document

45 minute sessions

Does your current research or professional writing project require critical feedback? Would you like to work on honing, refining or completing final polishes for an upcoming deadline? I can assist with any phase of your writing project, including the following:​

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  • Developmental consultation for white papers, presentations, manuals or reports, manuscript drafts

 

  • Review of content, syntax, reorganization of presentation, sections, or chapters as needed

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  • 20% off my basic editing rates, packaged with consultation sessions

Which phase are you in?

PHASE ONE

Identify timeline of project, desired outcome, current challenges. Start or review task list of areas in need of attention.

PHASE TWO

Consultation on syntax and presentation; review and refine suggested changes and revamps.

PHASE THREE

Last polish; final review and feedback before a formal submission or presentation.

Free Consult Call 

 

Please reach out to talk about your current writing project or professional endeavor!

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I would be happy to help you talk through the current phase of your undertaking as my free offering.

Reise Tanner, Certified Empowerment Coach, MA

"Chrysalis has been one of the most effective, engaged, and knowledgeable academic writing coaches that I have worked with in graduate school. Always encouraging, Chrysalis knows how to elicit new ideas and when to push further or hone what is already there. At the same time, she has a strong editorial eye and can help envision ways for the main ideas to shine through by letting go of anything that gets in the way without losing the writer's authentic voice and pertinent details. Often, something more impactful emerges that could not have otherwise."
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