RAND Corporation Press Manuscript Editing Services

RAND Corporation Press publishes policy research that shapes decisions at the highest levels of government and institutional leadership — books and reports read by defense officials, health policy analysts, education leaders, and the scholars and journalists who cover these fields. A RAND manuscript is expected to be analytically rigorous, precisely documented, and written with the clarity that allows its findings to travel from the research context to the decision context.

Off the Grid Editing prepares manuscripts for RAND Corporation Press with attention to the analytical precision, evidence clarity, and Chicago accuracy that RAND’s policy readership demands. Our editors bring experience in defense policy, health policy, and education research writing — and attend to the specific challenge of RAND manuscripts: making complex quantitative and qualitative analysis accessible to the decision-maker who will act on it.

RAND Corporation Press manuscripts are read by senior policymakers and analysts who need the evidence and the argument to be immediately clear and precisely documented. Our editors attend to the clarity of the analytical argument, ensure that evidence is cited consistently in Chicago style, and flag passages where the argument’s policy implications need to be stated more directly for a decision-maker audience. 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.