Thread by @gauravsabnis

For the actual work, it's very reasonable and can even go up to $100/he. But I'm not comfortable with a doctoral dissertation being edited and rewritten on that scale in the first place. Papers, books, etc, yes. Dissertations, just proof reading is kosher IMHO.

https://twitter.com/SimoneKolysh/status/1417345156160831489

Unless it's a dissertation essay or study being turned into a paper to submit to a journal. That's cool. But the dissertation officially defended, printed, bound, put in the library etc... That, just in my personal doctoral training philosophy, should not be copy edited.

I should stress again that this is my personal subjective policy, and not all academics feel this way. It's the way I was trained and the way I train. I'll happily pay top dollar for copy edits of papers I submit with my students. But their dissertations, have to be all them.

I'm a huge fan of copy editors otherwise. And I encourage people to use them extensively and not haggle about rates. What you get out of that few hundred dollars is worth much more in the long run.