ABOUT US
Our Clients
Academics, students, corporates, professionals, authors, and individuals entrust Edit Lab to provide high-quality editing and proofreading to ensure their ideas are communicated correctly and coherently.
Our Mission
Edit Lab’s mission is to provide the best, fastest, editing and proofreading services possible.
Our Editors
Our editors are highly qualified individuals who have written best-sellers, academic tomes and appear regularly in all the major newspapers in the country – so are involved in everything to do with the English language.
David Gemmell
Was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, majoring in English Literature.
He has written several books. He also occasionally writes for The Daily Maverick, BizNews, Business Day, The Star, and various periodicals. For a number of years, he had columns in The Weekender, Business Day, and The Saturday Star. He has edited several books, hundreds of MBA dissertations, and a number of doctoral theses.
In 2009 he had a best-seller with a book on Springbok rugby player Joost van der Westhuizen.
They are comfortable working with any style guide, including, but not limited to APA, Chicago, and Harvard styles.
Carol Macdonald
Was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, Reading, and Edinburgh Universities.
She has two Masters Degrees in Linguistics and a PhD on language in the primary school (based in the Department of Psychology). She carried out very extensive research on language in education over several decades and the analysis of textbooks.
She was based in Psychology in Education at the Wits School of Education, and then was an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Unisa.
She supervised many Masters degrees and four PhDs, and has been doing editing since 2006, almost all of Masters and PhD dissertations. She has 45 publications and given nearly 50 addresses and guest lectures. Publications include a book on South African English and two EFAL language courses. Areas of special interest are Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Reading to Learn.