· Copyediting
My background as an associate editor and managing editor provides the skills that enable me to polish a document or manuscript, focusing on clarity and consistency of style, correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage while maintaining the work’s integrity and the author’s original voice and intent.
· Proofreading
With a large selection of reference books at my fingertips and extensive experience proofreading magazines, newspapers, and nonfiction manuscripts, I am skilled at finding the hard-to-spot errors. Typos and transpositions, line-spacing errors, typestyle inconsistencies, dropped text, and more won’t slip past my careful reading.
· Writing
I have 16 years of professional experience as a writer for regional and national publications both general interest and trade. I specialize in creative nonfiction and feature stories for magazines, and am comfortable writing about a wide range of topics. All articles are carefully crafted and written to a publication’s specific style and reading audience.
My experience as a writer of nonfiction books includes contributing author for the Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns (Gale © 2006), the Career Discovery Encyclopedia 6th ed. (Ferguson © 2006) and the Career Discovery Encyclopedia 7th ed. (Ferguson, forthcoming). I also am author of Global Issues: Immigration and Migration (Facts on File © 2008).
· Additional Services
As a trained investigative reporter, I provide research and fact-checking services that coincide with my writing, copyediting, and proofreading services or that may be used independently to assure accuracy in your documents. I also apply my copyediting and proofreading skills to Web sites.
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