Editing Services
Corey Shdaimah, LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D.Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice, University of Maryland School of Social WorkSusan Turkel is wonderful! She provided our team with thoughtful and timely edits. Susan’s recommendations improved our manuscript with sensitivity to our voice. Her questions helped us identify weak points where we needed to hone our message. Not only did Susan provide feedback to improve our manuscript in terms of grammar, flow, and clarity, but she also thoroughly reviewed the publisher's guidelines to ensure that we were compliant with all requirements – including ones that we had overlooked. Susan’s communication with the team was clear and responsive. Susan Turkel is thorough and professional; she goes above and beyond as an editor, and is a joy to work with.
Nimisha LadvaVisiting Assistant Professor of Writing, Specialist in Public Speaking and Oral Communication, Haverford CollegeI can't recommend Susan enough. In 2021 I published an article in a new research field using a citation style I'd never used before. I was so close to the text I couldn't see my errors anymore and so unfamiliar with the style that I missed many others. Susan was meticulous and patient. Additionally, her transparency in making suggestions that did not alter my own voice or style was a welcome relief. She is also funny! And a pleasure to work with! I would trust her with anything.
Kathryn TaylorFreelance Writer & EditorOn the brink of shifting into a freelance writing career after years of “regular” employment, I needed a website, one that would be my new “business card.” But I knew nothing about creating a website and was intimidated into inertia even by the simplest instructions that I found on the Internet.
Susan Turkel was exactly the person I needed. She took plenty of time to get to know my goals and the personality I wanted to project on the site. She showed infinite patience with my questions, my requests for changes, my initial lack of knowledge and then my baby steps as she taught me how to do some of the maintenance myself. She felt like a partner. The site came together just as I had envisioned it. Susan Turkel is the ideal choice for someone who is coming to website creation for the first time.
Alice Lesnick, Ph.D.Director of the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program & Term Professor of Education, Bryn Mawr CollegeSusan Turkel is a consummate professional: alert, assiduous, imaginative, thorough, and responsive. She is an acute editor: she made subtle improvements throughout a manuscript of mine that kept faith with while also refining my written expression. She also brought her formidable research skills to bear on tracking down obscure citations and resolving knotty formatting questions. Above all, she was a joy to work with!
Victoria McIntyreExecutive Assistant to the Director of the Millenium Project, University of MichiganIf you are looking for a smart, tech-savvy, intuitive, honest, and attentive presence when working through processes that require a laser-sharp and analytical mind, turn to Susan Turkel. Susan is one of those rare individuals who can effortlessly balance logic and common sense – with a big dose of warmth and personality! Susan is a can-do, will-do and see-you-through partner!
Research Services
Albert Cain, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of MichiganBeyond more general consistently valuable advice across the years, Susan was immensely helpful in clarifying the intended boundaries of my bibliographic searches, suggesting modes of accessing the multiple dimensions and levels of the complex phenomena and helping set reasonable boundaries to the search. Her clarifying pre-search questions both helped exclude unintended spheres of references and illuminated some valuable dimensions for potential inclusion.
She is truly expert: highly organized, masterful, utterly reliable, crisp, swift, a delight to work with. I recommend Susan with utter confidence and great pleasure.
Ashley Gearhardt, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of MichiganSusan is an incredible wealth of information and she has been an essential resource for my lab. She has the ability to work with individuals at all stages of sophistication thanks to her clear and thoughtful communication style. Susan has been a huge help to me in answering challenging questions, such as hunting down a research tool used in other countries. She is always extremely responsive, thorough and organized. Susan is a total joy to work with!
Matt Sullivan, Ph.D.Director of SOUL Program & Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of MichiganOf the many skills that make Susan a great librarian, I would cite her extensive knowledge of digital resources, her ability to point me to the best practices in searching those resources, and her positive, supportive demeanor which made working with her a pleasure. Yet one skill stands even above these. It was Susan's exceptional analytic mind which I found most valuable and which made me return to her time and again. For projects in their nascent stages, Susan always started by asking me important questions that helped me frame the research I was only beginning to conduct. Anyone who has collected data only to realize that the data answers a different question or, horror of all horrors, no question at all, will know the true value of Susan's skill. My advice is to seek her help both early and often.
Margaret Evans, Ph.D.Research Scientist (retired), Center for Human Growth and Development, University of MichiganSusan Turkel is your go-to person for everything and anything you might need in the world of information science (and beyond). Her deep understanding of the resources available, her capacity for discovering obscure (but critical) references, and her organizational ability combine to make her a perfect freelance librarian. Her great personality is a bonus. She is easy to approach and effortlessly grasps what is needed to complete a project. I am so happy that she is making her talents available to the broader community and she certainly has my highest endorsement.
Florence GoffAssociate Chief Information Officer and Equal Opportunity Officer (retired), Bryn Mawr CollegeSusan embodies the best qualities of a technically savvy librarian. She has an excellent understanding of database organization, an analytical mind, and the persistence to unravel the most obscure reference. She has always kept abreast of new and emerging technologies and never hesitates to incorporate them into her projects. She is a born learner and teacher, but perhaps most impressive is her ability to meet a client where he/she happens to be, assess the project, then execute a successful and timely conclusion. Whether it’s a database review, advancing scholarly research, or populating website content, Susan gets my A++ endorsement.
George Rosenwald, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan