Community Colleges Editing and Proofreading Services

A student completes two years, transfers to a university, and discovers that four of their courses carry no credit towards the degree they have enrolled on. They took those courses on advice. Somewhere there is an articulation agreement that would have told them, written as a table of course equivalences for advisers rather than as an answer to the question a nineteen-year-old actually has: if I take this, where can I go with it?

We edit what community and further education colleges produce — transfer and articulation information for students, credit equivalence and pathway documentation, programme and course descriptions and their outcomes, advising and course selection guidance, prerequisite and placement information, cost, funding and financial aid explanations, employment and further study outcome reporting, prior learning recognition documentation, dual enrolment and school partnership material, and enrolment, orientation and student handbook content. Our editors work on the information a student uses to choose next year's courses.

Transfer and articulation information is where a college either protects a student's two years or wastes some of them, and its failure is publishing the agreement rather than the answer. A student choosing courses needs to know what transfers where, and the document that exists is organised by institution and course code. We work through these so the information is presented from the student's decision outward — this programme, these destinations, these courses that count and these that do not — since nobody browses articulation agreements and everybody chooses courses; so the courses that transfer to some destinations and not others are flagged individually, because this is where the loss occurs and it is invisible in a general statement about transferability; so the conditions are stated plainly — the grade required, the currency period, the maximum credits accepted, whether the receiving institution guarantees admission or merely credit — given that these four conditions account for most disappointments; so anything that has changed recently or is under negotiation is named with its date, as a student relying on last year's agreement is the commonest failure; so the consequence of a course that does not transfer is stated honestly rather than presented as elective flexibility; so the adviser's role and how to get a decision in writing is explained; and so the whole thing is written for somebody who has not been to university and has nobody at home who has. Information written this way protects the two years.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including agreements, programme documentation and student information. We are editors rather than academic advisers or admissions specialists, and we offer no view on credit, transferability or admission. What we can do is turn the agreement into the answer a student needs.