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What can I do for you?
My goal as an editor is to make your writing technically flawless, and to help you express your meaning clearly while preserving your unique voice and style.
Please visit the rates and services page for more details on exactly what I offer, or feel free to contact me about your specific project and needs. |
Editing qualifications and experience
- I currently work (and have worked for over 8 years) as a contract copy editor for a major academic journal publisher.
- I copy edit articles for a wide range of academic journals, on topics from foreign policy to soil science to peasant studies to systematic paleontology. I correct errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, ensure the authors' meaning comes across clearly, cross-check citations and references, and put text, figures, tables, citations, and references in journal house style.
- I currently work as a freelance editor for Scribendi, which has been a world leader in the online editing and proofreading industry for more than 20 years.
- I copy edit and proofread a wide range of documents for a wide range of customers, from essays and job letters for undergraduate students to professors' journal articles to stories and longer works by fiction authors. Depending on the precise service requested, I correct errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, ensure the authors' meaning comes across clearly, cross-check citations and references, and put text, figures, tables, citations, and references in the customer's requested style.
- I have undertaken a variety of freelance editing work over the past 8 years.
- I have provided substantive and/or copy editing on a wide range of projects, from resumes and cover letters to academic dissertations, technical documents, novels, and autobiographies.
- I have over 2 years' experience editing for a publisher of romantic fiction.
- I provided structural as well as copy editing, helping authors take their novels and novellas from a rough stage through to the final polish, working on plot, characterization, and continuity as well as correcting errors of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, while putting the manuscript into a consistent house style.
- I have taken professional courses in manuscript editing, copy editing, essay writing, and fiction writing.
- I'm also a published author myself – of several academic articles, one co-authored academic book, and one novel (published under a pen name).
- I have a BSc in honors paleontology, an MA in history, and a PhD in history and philosophy of science.
- My personal background and experience in academia, in addition to the wide range of academic essays, articles, and dissertations I have edited and currently edit, on a contract and freelance basis, make me well qualified to edit academic work in a range of disciplines.