Brookings Institution Press Manuscript Editing Services

Brookings Institution Press publishes policy research that is expected to inform real decisions — books read by policymakers, analysts, journalists, and scholars who are shaping responses to the most consequential public challenges of our time. A Brookings manuscript that is unclear, poorly organized, or imprecisely cited fails the policy audience it exists to inform.

Off the Grid Editing prepares manuscripts for Brookings Institution Press with attention to the policy clarity, argument precision, and Chicago accuracy that Brookings’s elite policy readership demands. Our editors bring experience in public policy, health policy, governance, and economics writing — and understand the specific challenge of Brookings manuscripts: making rigorous policy analysis accessible to a reader who is not a specialist but who will act on what they read.

Brookings Institution Press manuscripts are read by policymakers and analysts who need both the evidence and the argument to be immediately clear. Our editors attend to the directness of the policy argument, ensure that evidence is cited precisely in Chicago style and clearly connected to the analytical conclusions, and flag passages where the argument’s policy implications need to be made more explicit. If you have questions about which service is right for your manuscript, contact us directly. We respond to every inquiry the same day during business hours.