FAQ: Student

For short documents (4,000 words or less), we offer quick turnaround times: we can return your document within 8 hours. If you send us your document at 1 a.m., we can work on it while you sleep and get it back to you by 9 a.m.! If your document is 1,500 words or less, we can complete your order within 4 hours. With some services, if your document is less than 1,000 words, we even offer a turnaround time within 2 hours! Visit our Student services page for details.

Sorry, but no. Scribendi does not write or sell academic work, nor do we paraphrase text. We strongly believe that students should submit their own original work, and students can face severe academic penalties if they submit work that is not theirs.

Sorry, we cannot write the text for you. We will edit, proofread, and help you improve what you have written, but we need a written draft of your paper (either the full paper or a section of it) to proofread and edit.

No, we cannot write the text for you. We can give your academic work a thorough edit to help you strengthen the work before you submit it to your teacher, professor, or review committee, but we we can only revise the work that you provide.

If you choose one of our editing services, we can help you improve your writing, organization, and structure and suggest numerous revisions to help you improve your work. We will make sure that you are expressing yourself in a clear and intelligent manner.

We can assure you that your writing, spelling, and grammar will be correct and clear if you use our proofreading services, and our editing services can help you by pointing out weaknesses in your arguments or areas that require further development. Our editors can provide numerous suggestions about how to improve your work. However, your final grade will also depend on how much research and effort you put into your work and on what your instructor requires from you. Whatever you write, though, we can help make it better.

No problem. When you place your order, just tell us what style guide we should apply to your work; our editor will ensure that the style guidelines are applied consistently throughout your document. You can indicate whether you want your style guide applied to the citations and references, the page and text elements, or both. Visit our Academic and Student pages to see all of our available services.

You qualify for the 10% student discount if you are a student currently enrolled at any high school, college, or university in the world.

You can get your student discount by using the coupon code found on this page when you checkout.

You can use your 10% student discount on all of our student and academic services, and it may be used an unlimited number of times while the coupon is active.

We encourage you to share the code with other students so that they can also receive the discount.

Scribendi is happy to edit and proofread academic work in which generative AI has been used, and we recognize that generative AI is an increasingly common part of research and writing. Because academic integrity is essential, we ask only that generative AI be used responsibly in the work you submit. You remain academically and legally responsible for work produced with AI’s help, including any intellectual-property or copyright issues.

Your institution, publisher, or target journal will have its own policy on how generative AI can be used and how it must be disclosed, and their requirements take priority and should be followed carefully.

It may be that you have the "Show Markup" feature turned off. If you are using Microsoft Word 2010 or later, click on the Review tab. In the section named "Tracking," there are three drop-down menus—they're to the right of the button named "Tracked Changes." Click on the top one. Choose All Markup. 

Then, click the Show Markup menu and then make sure that all the markup options are checked, including "Insertions and Deletions."

If you are using Word 2007/Office XP, click on the tab named Review. In the section named "Tracking," there are three drop-down menus—they're to the right of the button named "Balloons." Click on the top one. Choose Final Showing Markup.

If you still don't see any changes, please feel free to contact us or get in touch via chat.

No, we don’t check for plagiarism, nor do we write, rewrite, or paraphrase work. Stringent guidelines are required here to protect our clients against charges of academic fraud. However, Scribendi’s experts can provide the professional editing needed to ensure high-quality original work.  

We can apply any style guide to your work. The most popular style guides are the American Psychological Association (APA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Turabian, Chicago Manual of Style, Harvard Referencing, and Council of Science Editors (CSE). We can also apply a journal’s style guide (just send us a link to the guide or tell us the name of the journal) or a corporate/internal style guide. If you have your own unique style guide that you need applied to your document, you can upload the style guide to the order as a reference for your editor.

Yes—and always with a human editor in control. Scribendi uses the following two kinds of AI, both of which are used as tools that support our editors rather than replacing them:

• Scribendi AI—our own proprietary tool. This is a predictive (not generative) tool that uses machine learning to help editors quickly identify potential grammar, punctuation, spelling, and consistency issues. It cannot make changes to a document on its own and never operates without a human editor.
• Third-party AI tools, including generative AI, which we use under commercial (business) agreements to support tasks such as quality checking and internal workflows. Under those agreements, the content you submit is not used to train or improve the AI provider’s models.

Regardless of which tools are involved, our guarantee is the same: every document submitted for editing or proofreading is fully reviewed and edited by a professional human editor. AI tools may help our editors work more quickly, accurately, and consistently, but it is always the editor who reviews your text, exercises editorial judgment, and decides on the revisions and comments in your document.

For MS Word files (.doc and .docx), we use the Track Changes and the Comments features. You can access the Track Changes and Comments tools by clicking on the Review tab.

You can use the tools on the Review tab to Accept or Reject changes one by one, or you can Accept or Reject the changes all at once. 

You can also right-click on individual changes in the document to access the Accept/Reject functions.

You can also delete the comments with the Review tab.

Right-clicking on a comment balloon also brings up a Delete Comment function in the fly-out menu.

In MS Word, go to the Review tab or Tools menu and select Word Count. If you're doing a word count for an academic paper, be sure to check the option to include footnotes and endnotes in the word count. You can also use the Scribendi Word Count Tool. Simply copy and paste your text into the Word Count Tool, and it will provide the word count of the document.

Please note: We do try to double-check word counts on the documents that we receive, but to ensure that there are no delays in processing your order, please make every effort to give us an accurate count. If there is a section that you do not want us to check, please mention this in the "Instructions" field of the order form.

More than 99.5% of our orders are delivered before the chosen deadline. However, rare unforeseen issues with a document can cause slight delays. If your order is late, please contact us.

Scribendi takes customer satisfaction very seriously. You can provide feedback directly to us (there will be a link on your order details page), or you can get in touch with us using the Scribendi Contact Us page or by calling us at +1 (519) 351-1626, and we will look into your issue immediately.