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Ambitious thinking, rigorous research, and writing are the things clients prefer me. WHAT DO I DO? I turn complex ideas into clear and compelling content. Always going beyond my limits to explore what am I capable of, and I have never disappointed myself and those who put their trust in me. MY SPECIALITY? High-stakes writing, research, and editing that sound 100% human. My SERVICES? 1. Research & Academic Writing: peer-reviewed (high quality) research papers, literature reviews, dissertations, theses, reports, conference papers. 2. AI Content Humanization 3. B2B & Business Writing: articles, reports, thought leadership, case studies, white papers, business content 4. LinkedIn Ghostwriting & Personal Branding: founder/executive posts, thought leadership, professional storytelling 5. Copyediting & Proofreading: structural editing, line editing, grammar, clarity, consistency, and academic formatting 6. Journalism & Long-Form Writing: interviews, profiles, features, investigative and editorial pieces 7. Research Assistance: literature searches, source analysis, academic research, qualitative research, and synthesis 8. Philosophical & Critical Writing: literary criticism, cultural commentary, theory, humanities, and philosophy 9. Content & Copywriting: blogs, newsletters, Substack content, website copy, ghostwriting 10. Research-Based AI & Humanities Content: AI, technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and their intersections with human experience MY BACKGROUND? I hold an MPhil in English Literature with expertise in literary theory, philosophy, critical analysis, culture, and the humanities. I am a published writer, certified editor, researcher, interviewer, and educator. I have worked on academic and professional research projects, interviewed academics internationally, and written across humanities, social sciences, business, entrepreneurship, innovation, and emerging technology. I am particularly interested in the intersection of AI, humanities, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human experience. I structure my thought, writing, and project. That's how I do my work. If you see the potential, let's have a chat!

SOURCE-CRITICAL HISTORICAL RESEARCH & EDITING I help authors, filmmakers, publishers, archaeologists, heritage professionals, museums, and research teams turn complex historical and cultural evidence into clear, accurate, publication-ready work. I am a PhD historian, research consultant, and editor with more than 15 years of experience in research, university teaching, source criticism, fact-checking, academic editing, scholarly review, and research-based writing. I have worked as an Associate Professor of History and as a history subject-matter expert, editor, and reviewer for the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. My work is especially suited to projects where sources conflict, evidence is incomplete, traditions have accumulated over time, or claims require verification before publication or production. CORE EXPERTISE My expertise includes Georgia and the Caucasus, Byzantium and the Black Sea world, medieval history, historical geography and cartography, mythology and folklore, cultural history and ethnography, genealogy and heraldry, archaeology and heritage, fortifications and monasteries, imperial narratives and political thought, and the history of medicine and medical ideas. PRIMARY SOURCES, MANUSCRIPTS & HISTORICAL LANGUAGES I have formal university training in Ancient Greek and Latin and can translate and analyze original texts. I also conduct archival research, prosopography, textual criticism, codicology, manuscript-transmission research, and comparison of textual traditions. My specialist expertise includes Georgian numismatics, epigraphy, paleography, and historical heraldry. I analyze coins, inscriptions, seals, coats of arms, emblems, and dynastic symbols in relation to chronology, genealogy, authority, identity, provenance, and historical memory. I can read medieval Georgian manuscripts in Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri scripts and analyze variants, scribal hands, colophons, provenance, dating, and transmission history. EDITORIAL WRITING & MANUSCRIPT EDITING I provide editorial writing, developmental editing, copy editing, and editing and proofreading for historical, academic, cultural, and research-based content. My developmental editing examines argument, structure, chronology, narrative flow, chapter organization, evidentiary balance, repetition, audience suitability, and the relationship between claims and sources. I identify gaps, inconsistencies, unsupported conclusions, and sections requiring clarification, restructuring, or further research. My copy editing improves clarity, accuracy, consistency, terminology, sentence structure, tone, transitions, and readability while preserving the author’s voice. Editing and proofreading can include grammar, punctuation, spelling, formatting consistency, citations, captions, headings, bibliographies, and final quality control. I also write and revise research-based articles, historical narratives, reports, educational materials, exhibition texts, and documentary content. SERVICES • Historical research dossiers and source evaluation • Fact-checking and claim verification • Editorial writing and research-based content • Developmental editing and manuscript assessment • Copy editing, proofreading, and quality control • Historical-accuracy and source-critical review • Archival, genealogical, and prosopographical research • Mythology, folklore, cultural-history, and ethnographic research • History of medicine, medical ideas, and healing traditions • Heraldic, epigraphic, numismatic, and manuscript research • Historical geography, cartography, and heritage briefs • Research for books, documentaries, screenplays, exhibitions, games, and educational projects • Chronologies, annotated bibliographies, and literature reviews RESEARCH & EDITORIAL METHOD My method distinguishes between directly attested evidence, strong scholarly inference, plausible reconstruction, later tradition or interpretation, and unsupported speculation. I trace claims to their sources, compare conflicting accounts, explain the limits of surviving material, and recommend the strongest wording the evidence can responsibly support. When editing, I preserve the author’s purpose and voice while improving structure, credibility, clarity, and readability. LANGUAGES & COMMUNICATION Georgian is my native language. I work confidently with English-language materials and sources in German and Russian. My historical-language training includes Ancient Greek and Latin, while my manuscript work includes medieval Georgian texts in Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri scripts. For source-based and editorial projects, I work primarily through written communication so that decisions, citations, and revisions remain documented. Calls can be arranged when useful. Send me your manuscript, period, region, research question, intended format, available sources, and deadline. I will recommend an appropriate research or editorial scope, methodology, and deliverable.

Hello! Welcome to my writing portfolio. I am a published author working across Sinhala and English, with experience spanning books, journalism, research, and creative writing. My work blends storytelling, accuracy, and adaptability, whether it’s for publishing houses, media, or digital platforms. What I do best ✔ SEO & Web Content Writing Blog articles, website content, and Medium-style writing Experience with both human-written and AI-assisted content ✔ Newspaper & Magazine Writing Currently working as a journalist for a local national newspaper Experience covering human rights, political, and current affairs issues Writing reader-friendly Q&A interviews based on original conversations Personal essays and feature writing for magazines Strong in human-interest stories, business profiles, and women-focused narratives ✔ Travel Writing Published author of a USA-published travel book Specializes in authentic, insider-style cultural storytelling, available for on-location travel writing assignments ✔ Research & Writing Content research experience Worked as a researcher in local investigative documentary projects ✔ Grant Research & Writing NGO funding applications and proposal writing Film grants and charity project proposals ✔ AI Annotation Work Data labeling and structured annotation for AI training Detail-oriented, guideline-compliant execution Proven track record with hands-on experience in the field ✔ Translation & Transcription (Sinhala ⇄ English) Natural, meaning-based translation (not word-for-word output) Subtitles for films, YouTube, and media content Accurate transcription with attention to tone and context ✔ Scriptwriting (Sinhala – Film & TV) Film and television script writing in Sinhala Focus on dialogue, emotion, and visual storytelling ✔ Book Writing (Sinhala - Fiction & Non-Fiction) Writing personal narratives and biographies ✔ Sinhala Academic Writing (Grades 1–13) Creating structured, age-appropriate academic content for school students Proven track record with hands-on experience in the field A little about my working style I communicate clearly, learn quickly, and adapt easily to different writing tones. Deadlines are commitments. And I don’t just aim to deliver work; I aim to make clients feel, “Yes, this is exactly what I needed… maybe even better.” -Narmada-

Rigorously sourced research writing, grounded in fieldwork — every claim traceable to a primary source. I'm an anthropologist, editor, and research writer with 18+ years across academic, policy, nonprofit, and media work. I turn dense, complex, or sensitive material into clear, accurate writing a non-specialist can actually use: reports, explainers, field studies, literature reviews, grant narratives, curriculum, and high-level editorial rewrites. My core training is ethnographic — the qualitative, on-the-ground work most research can't reach. I do in-depth interviewing, participant observation, and applied and organizational ethnography: getting close to how people actually live and work, and rendering it faithfully and on the record. Eighteen months of field research in Papua New Guinea, and applied research alongside communities living next to large industrial and extractive projects, taught me to find sources, earn trust, and represent people accurately. That work rests on strict sourcing discipline. Every factual claim traces to a named source — a peer-reviewed study, government or agency data, a public filing, a named interview — in original wording throughout. I spent four years as a Research Associate at the University of Michigan's Center for Social Solutions, on the future of work and the legacies of slavery, separating what the data supports from how interested parties frame it. I also work fluently with AI as a research tool, held to strict human fact-checking and provenance. This is where the ethnographic and the analytical meet: the interviewing, verification, and judgment are exactly the human work software can't do. I've applied it on large-scale, multi-country research and reporting (AI-assisted analysis held to a human grading framework, delivered publication-ready) and on consulting briefs that condense dozens of conflicting sources into a single ranked, decision-bearing synthesis. Areas of focus - Qualitative & ethnographic research — in-depth interviewing, participant observation, applied & organizational ethnography, systems mapping - Research writing & cross-disciplinary synthesis — messy, multi-source material into clear, ranked, decision-bearing analysis, every claim's provenance kept - Fact-checking, source verification, and information literacy - AI-assisted research & reporting at scale — large multi-country report work with a grading framework and publication-ready editorial assessment - Editorial leadership — peer-review management, manuscript development, and rewriting across 25+ years; co-founded academic journals, independent presses, and research initiatives - Curriculum and educational content design - Grant narratives and policy-facing explainers - Clients come to me for fieldwork-grounded qualitative research, exceptional synthesis across disciplines, authoritative writing built on real sources, careful handling of complex or sensitive subjects, and editorial work that sharpens clarity, structure, and voice — delivered on deadline. Whether the material is a body of literature, an organization, or a pile of conflicting sources, the work is the same: make sense of a complex system and render it so someone can actually act on it.

I have 5 years of proven research experience with a specialization in African American communities. As an organized and motivated professional with extensive experience in mixed methods data collection and analysis, I am confident that I would be a valuable asset to your team. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology (minor in psychology) from the University of North Texas. I have a Master of Science in Applied Anthropology with a specialization in geospatial relationships, Urban Anthropology, Business Anthropology, and Organizational Anthropology. For my thesis research, I analyzed 50 neighborhood needs assessment surveys and 10 single participant semi-structured interviews, and 2 focus groups. I was able to code and analyze the data and present to my client to better programing at the center positioned in that particular neighborhood. I have mastered the art of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. I have experience using Dedoose, NVivo, and Atlas.ti on small to large scale projects. I thrive in fast-paced, pressured work envrionments. My strong attention to detail and solid analytical mind set me apart from my peers. As a researcher, I have gained the necessary skills to observe and deduce patterns within statistics and qualitative data. Over the last 5 years, I have been able to gain experience in design and the utilization of questionnaires in order to collect data and assimilate statistics using statistical software (SPSS). In my recent research during my thesis, I have monitored the progress of data collection, collated information and interpreted data for clients. Based upon my research, I have been able to make recommendations based on the data collected. Given my experience and background in qualitative research analytics and data, I believe I would be an excellent addition to your team. Please consider me for employment.

Hi, My name is Yiwei. I am a Designer and Researcher with a background in Linguistics and Curriculum Design.