Proof Reading for English Majors

[pjthefey]

I don't know about the other people in this community, however as an English major I often find that as much as I love many of my writing assignments, finals week often leaves me pulling all nighters to complete multiple-uber essays for 3-4 literature classes. The end result is typically a piece that greatly inspired me at the moment of it's conception, but no less left me wishing I had more time (or sleep) to do an adequate job of proof reading for wonky sentences, typos, and mechanical errors.

Can anyone recommend a web site to consult in just such situations that offers live college level tutoring for English majors so that I can have this done? I don't mind paying for the service, but it does need to be instant (no next day appointments) and performed by someone with equal or greater command over the English language than myself when I am completely awake and alert.

As you might have guessed, it is crunch time for me, and in a few hours I will be completing the last of my final essays for this quarter. While I'm sure I can get a relatively decent grade on the projects by myself, I don't see any reason why I should settle for that when the end result could be quite good if not fabulous instead. Alternately, if you do not know if any such web sites, but want to do a little editing yourself send me a private message with some kind of e-contact info (Facebook, MSN, text message) and I'll get back to you if I still need some help when I see it. As I said before, I don't mind paying, but you'll need to have a PayPal account to accept payment.

The assignment is due at 4 PM tomorrow (well actually today) pacific standard time and the essay will be at least 12 pages in length. I am primarily working with Bram Stoker's Dracula (the novel) and the Korean film "Thirst" (2009).

[Olive]

It's not live, comprehensive support, but if you're worried about the little mistakes that happen, editminion.com/ might be able to help you.

Not as good as a peer, but better than your tired brain proofreading alone :-D

[pjthefey]

Thanks for the reference. I don't know how useful it will be in this case, but it is a really cool web site!

[Dodger Thirteen]

As of right now, I am unaware of any site that does that; however, I imagine they would be able to make tons of money if someone did.

That being said, normally I just swap papers with someone else in the English major at my university. Friends here will often do that, even when it's 2am the night prior to a duedate. That's usually because we're all up anyway working on our own papers. Any excuse to procrastinate, yes?

[onlyaworkingtitle]

Does your school have a writing center? It probably won't be open at 2am, but if yours is anything like mine was, they probably get few enough patrons that any they do get are met with endless enthusiasm (ex: I have been known to sing Grammar Rock songs to my clients when they have trouble remembering something).

[Dodger Thirteen]

Ours does, not that they're at all helpful. But yours could be different.