I am working on my dissertation and submitted chapters 3 and 4 to PaperTrue for editing (which cost almost $500). I provided them with my university's style guide, as well as informing them that I needed to use APA formatting. In chapter 3 I found the following errors: 1) heading done incorrectly for APA (running head & pg#) 2) period spacing changed to be incorrect for APA - changed from two to one space, adding thousands of unnecessary "errors" to wade through. 3) eight changed to 8, against APA formatting 4) extra paragraph spacing added between sections, expressly prohibited by the style guide and APA formatting 5) changed “research” a noun to “researches” a verb (p. 6) 6) comma placement changed, changing the intended meaning of the sentence, not making it more clear 7) Changed verb tense to present tense when the rest of the paragraph was written in past tense (should all be in past tense in a completed dissertation) 8 ) Most of the changes were either superficial (i.e. changing “also” to “additionally”) or changed the meaning of the sentence/paragraph. For example, in one of the paragraphs, a suggested change consisted of re-ordering sentences, separating two sentences that were connected with a “therefore”. The editor’s fix for that was to change the word “Therefore” to “Additionally” (one of his/her favorite words). 9) The editor added “Additionally” to the beginning of many sentences, even when there was no information earlier in the paragraph that it was adding to. (i.e.: “There were 16 questions designed to identify the alignment of an individual’s propositional knowledge with a biblical worldview. Worldviews answer life’s existential questions (Baumann, 2011; Sire, 2004).” The editor changed the second sentence to “Additionally, worldviews answer life’s …” That transition, one example of many that were added, doesn’t make sense here and takes away from the focus of the paragraph. 10) “In early adolescence, faith development occurs in large part because people begin to realize that good or bad things do not always happen to those who deserve it” changed to “In early adolescence, faith development significantly occurs because …” This proposed change completely changes the meaning of the sentence. The more I go through these edits, the more it seems like someone just did a search of specific word combinations to change. They don’t make sense. 11) Some wording changed to be less specific, the opposite of what should be advised in a dissertation (i.e.: “Seventeen questions were asked” changed to “As much as 17 questions were asked”).