Cutting a few thousand words late in the process is painful, mostly because you no longer see your text from the outside. Esmond reads it fresh and points to passages that add length without adding to your argument.
See how Esmond worksWord limits, what counts towards them (references, appendices, tables, footnotes) and any tolerance are set by your programme, sometimes per module. Esmond does not check your work against them and makes no statement about whether you are over or under. Look in your module handbook, and if it is ambiguous, ask your supervisor or module coordinator before you start deleting.
The instinct is to trim every chapter equally. Usually it is better to find the passages that carry no weight for your research question and remove those completely, so the chapters that do the real work keep their substance. Each Esmond report includes a section on what to cut, with the reason for each suggestion.
You decide what goes. Sometimes a passage looks redundant to a reader but matters to you or your supervisor for a reason the text does not show. Then the better fix may be to make that reason visible in a sentence, rather than delete the passage.
You upload your draft as a PDF. Short documents come back within minutes; a full dissertation takes longer. You get two things back: your own document with comments in the margin, and a separate feedback report that sets out what to tackle first. Every upload starts with a free preview, and the price follows the length of your document and is shown before you pay. No subscription, no account.
Esmond evaluates your work and writes nothing for you. Each comment points to a passage, explains what a supervisor or examiner might question, and gives a direction for revising it. You decide what to change, and every sentence stays yours.
Esmond is preparing its launch in Ireland and is not taking orders here yet. This page explains what the review does, so you know what to expect when it opens.
No. It identifies passages and explains why they could go. The editing is yours.
Before payment it counts the words in your PDF to set the price. That count is not a check against your programme's word limit.
Esmond is preparing its launch in Ireland and is not taking orders here yet. Until then you cannot upload or order anything here; the guides on this site are free to read.
See how Esmond works