Thank you so much to Max and The PhD People proofreaders for helping me with proofreading my entire thesis. Max was extremely helpful, responsive and flexible in discussing the best way to make my proofreading request happen when I had a submission deadline in January not long after Christmas and New Years. I appreciate how personalised the service was and how it was a collaborative process to decide on dates and what to have or not have proofread. It was reassuring to know that Max usually replied emails quickly with a thoughtful response to any questions I had. My work was returned two days earlier than the return date I was given, which was amazing! And when there had been a slight miscommunication, Max was extremely accommodating and let me send in extra material without an extra charge, and this work was returned to me within 48 hours. This was really comforting and reassuring amidst all the stress and chaos in the run up to submitting a PhD thesis! The proofreading was done very thoroughly and to a high standard, and my thesis came back to me feeling much tighter, clearer and stronger. It was so much less wordy and it was amazing to me how much difference was made in how submission-ready it felt, just by things like improving my sentence structure, using one decisive word where I had used five to express the same thing, etc - but without changing any of the meaning. The ideas, arguments and sentences are all exactly the same, just less bloated. This saved me so much time that I would have needed to get the text to the same standard of clarity, which I didn’t have! It allowed me to concentrate on the other many tasks that needed doing in the run up to submission, and not having to re-read and re-edit the text as many times as I otherwise would've hugely reduced how much rush and panic I felt in the days before submitting. It gave me more breathing room and space to finish my PhD in a good headspace. Thank you so much once again for this hugely helpful service!