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Dr Brian Bloch

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Editor profile

Over the last ten years, I have specialized in editing academic manuscripts. I offer an exceptionally comprehensive, fully professional editing service, mainly of business and economics texts, but in several other areas of the social sciences as well.

I ensure that each sentence is both linguistically and academically clear and precise. That is, I provide a text which is optimally formulated in terms of sentence construction, word order and word selection. I also take responsibility for delivering a text which conveys the meaning as intended by the author(s).

Where appropriate, I draw the attention of the authors to any issues I think they should clarify, elaborate or rethink. Therefore, my own business-related and/or general academic and intellectual input is often substantial, taking the form of numerous small (and often more substantial) stylistic improvements and suggestions relating to the clarity and precision of the text.

I have a reputation for reliability, meeting deadlines and keeping clients informed on progress. Furthermore, I receive constant praise for my clear and precise use of language. I am happy to send you samples of my work.

Academic and journalistic background

In addition to my editing work, I have published extensively and internationally for many years in a variety of business and economics journals and magazines. I have also written a substantial number of articles as a management and financial journalist for leading magazines and newspapers in the English speaking world. My teaching has covered the fields of economics, marketing, international business, general management, cross-cultural management, presentation and communication. I have also taught specialist courses on English for professional purposes in the fields of marketing, economics, psychology and communication science. Finally, I have translated many academic and other texts from German into English.

Feedback from clients

"Thank you so much for your support. We could not make it without your contribution. We hope to get a chance to work with you soon"
Ann P. (Warwick, January 2010)

"No need to say that once again you have done a great job and this is highly appreciated"
Angelos P. (Athens, September 2009)

"Perfect ... amazing ... I'm impressed ... nein, ehrlich ... gut redigiert bzw.korrigiert"
Nadja B (Switzerland, September 2009)

"The article sounds a lot better now and I think our chances of being accepted have considerably increased"
Cornelius I. (Münster, July 2009)

"Thank you very much for your quick action. I will revise my article in accordance with your useful and accurate instructions"
Yuko N. (Japan, July 2009)

"I am reworking the text and your comments are very helpful. I realized how unclear many lines are"
Pilar R. (Belgium, June 2009)

"Two of the papers you edited for me are in press. Both were accepted as very well-written pieces, which must be due to your competent editing hand!"
Lene T. (Denmark, June 2009)

"Thanks again for editing our paper. I think you really did a great job. I hope that we can work together again. Best wishes"
Bernhard H. (Hamburg, April 2009)

"Thank you very much for your editing. And thank you for doing it that fast. We are happy that the final version 'flows' much better than it did before. I appreciate that you not only edit the writing style. Your comments in upper case are very helpful to identify the passages where we did not make ourselves clear"
Stefan H. (Dresden, April 2009)

"Once again you have performed miracles"
Ilias K. (Athens, February 2009)

"Thank you so much for doing it that well and fast"
Katja G. (Ilmenau, Germany, January 2009)

"L apologizes for the catastrophic writing, he was very much under pressure and you did wonders with the paper"
G.O. (Denmark, December 2008)

Recent editing projects and papers

"Television as a political information trap: on inadvertent viewer exposure to news"
Frank M. (Münster), January 2010

"Counter-cyclic substitution between trade credit and bank credit"
Xiaojun S. (Beijing), 25 pages, January 2010

"Analyzing the effect of user-generated content on website key performance indicators by clickstream analysis: the case of social shopping"
Rainer O. and Christian H. (Hagen), December 2009

"Infrastructure – a new dimension of real estate? An asset allocation analysis"
Tobias D. and Konrad F. (Regensburg), December 2009

"Concern: the crucial driver of boycott participation"
Stefan H. et al. (Dresden), January 2010

"Supply chain process modelling for humanitarian organisations"
Alexander B. (Paderborn), November 2009.

"The information content of the SG&A ratio"
Daniel B. (Cologne), October 2009

"The battle for World Wide Web dominance: in search of network externalities"
Veera B. (Thailand), October 2009

"Exploration versus exploitation: examining the impacts of psychological climate and knowledge management system access"
Alexandra D. (Arizona), October 2009

"Event sponsorship"
Lia Zarontarello (Milan), 20 pages, September 2009

"How to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary unemployment: on the relationship between the willingness to work and unemployment-induced unhappiness"
Adrian Chadi (Münster), 28 pages, September 2009

"Silvio Gesell: 'A strange, unduly neglected prophet'? A reappraisal of a forgotten pioneer of monetary theory"
Cordelius Ilgmann (Münster), 30 pages, September 2009

"Multi-channel management in Austria: an exploratory study"
Christian Stummer (Vienna), 13 pages, August 2009

"Assessing the brand knowledge of Greek SMEs"
Ilias Kapareliotis (Athens), 18 pages, August 2009

"Specific investment and ownership structures of railways – a laboratory analysis"
Thomas Ehrmann et al. (14 pages), August 2009

"Do forecasts improve over time? A case study of the accuracy of sales forecasting at a German car manufacturer"
Robert Rieg (Aalen), 14 pages, July 2009