John Garger is a copy editor, proofreader, dissertation coach, researcher, writer, and entrepreneur living in upstate New York. As a professional copy editor, he specializes in academic manuscripts such as journal articles, conference papers, research reports, dissertations, and theses. John is a behavioral researcher who has published numerous empirical and theoretical papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has been a student of the Latin language for over 30 years.
Copy Editing
The majority of John’s work is copy editing academic manuscripts, which he has been doing professionally for over 20 years. His approach is to improve a manuscript’s prose to make it more accessible to the reader, thereby developing the author into a better writer.
John has copy edited thousands of articles and hundreds of dissertations across topics in all of the sciences, including the formal, natural, and social sciences. His breadth and depth of knowledge and experience across the sciences means that he understands what each field expects from a manuscript, and he is able to match a manuscript’s exposition to those expectations.
Research
John has conducted and published research on a variety of topics, most commonly in the areas of organizational behavior, leadership, education, management, AI, and methodology. His research has been accepted and presented at many regional and national conferences.
He has served in editorial positions at several scholarly journals, and he serves as ad-hoc reviewer for about a dozen journals. During his graduate studies, he was a research assistant at a prominent research center. John has received over 20 awards for research, reviewing, and other scholarly work.
Books
John has authored three books on the topics of scholarly writing, dissertations, and cognitive biases.
His book Cognitive Biases and other Phenomena that Alter Memory, Judgement, and Behavior is an adventure through the human mind that demonstrates just how complex the decisions we make, and where they derive, can be.
His book 100 Dissertation Mistakes: A Collection of Errors, Fallacies, Myths, and Misperceptions discusses the most common mistakes doctoral students make during their dissertations.
His book Removing Redundancies from Scholarly Writing: A Guide to Writing Better Journal Articles, Dissertations, and Theses instructs academic writers how to avoid pedantic writing that makes manuscripts less accessible to readers.
Writing
John has authored hundreds of articles on the subjects of accounting, computer hardware, computer security, entrepreneurship, finance, investing, Latin, Linux, marketing, personal finance, postgraduate education, search engine optimization, and Microsoft Windows. He is author of a semi-regular blog on the topics of scholarly writing and dissertations.
Teaching
John has taught organizational behavior, management, marketing, and human resources management at several major universities and colleges. He served as a teaching assistant during his graduate studies and was a guest lecturer of leadership at a regional university.
Expertise
John has a passion for learning scientific methodologies and philosophies of science. His favorite authors include Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Carl G. Hempel, Thomas S. Kuhn, Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Karl R. Popper. In fact, part of the reason John studied Latin was so that he could read some of these authors’ works in their original language.
As a student of methodologies, John is an expert in many of the subjects surrounding scientific research, including statistics, research design, and issues pertaining to contemporary research problems such as common method bias, hypothesis falsifiability, and power analysis.