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Website: www.textualmatters.com
Profile
I’m a professional editor and writing consultant based in Calgary, Canada. Since 2011, I’ve worked with all kinds of writers on academic, business, and creative projects, big and small, from theses and dissertations, to institutional and research reports, to diverse grant applications, to novels, and more. I have an interdisciplinary academic and professional background (Social Work/BSW, Fine Arts/BFA, and Cultural Studies/MA) as well as a professional editing certificate, which have all served me well across diverse fields of writing, editing, and coaching. Grant projects for which I’ve provided editing or mentoring have generated, in sum, over $51 million in funding.
My clients are academics, graduate students, universities, non-profit organizations, business professionals, institutions, small- to medium-sized companies, and fiction and creative non-fiction authors.
My aim is to help you get just the right words on the page—the ones that matter, in the way that works best—whatever your aims, project, and target audience.
Please visit my website, www.TextualMatters.com, for more details about my areas of expertise and the many diverse projects I have completed. I look forward to the opportunity to work with you.
Editorial Skills
- Abstracting
- Adaptations
- Canadianization
- Consulting and manuscript evaluation
- Copy editing
- Developmental or project editing
- Editing translations
- On-screen editing
- Online editing
- Plain language
- Proofreading
- Referencing
- Research and fact-checking
- Rewriting
- Structural and substantive editing
- Stylistic editing
- Writing
Media / Genres
- Abstracts
- Academic books and monographs
- Academic materials general
- Academic papers and essays
- Advertising and marketing materials
- Anthologies
- Atlases maps plans
- Bibliographies
- Blogs
- Booklets
- Books art and photography
- Books children
- Books general
- Books self-help
- Books self-published
- Briefs précis and executive summaries
- Brochures
- Business materials general
- Catalogues
- Conference materials
- Cookbooks
- Correspondence
- Curriculum guidelines
- Dictionaries directories and encyclopedias
- E-books
- E-materials general
- Educational materials general
- Fiction
- Fiction mystery
- Government materials general
- Grant applications and fundraising
- Graphical materials
- Guidebooks
- Hand-written materials
- In-house publications
- Indexes
- Labels and packaging
- Magazines
- Manuals and how-to books
- Multimedia
- Music notation
- Newsletters
- Newspapers
- Periodicals general
- Pictures and illustrations
- Plays and screenplays
- Poetry
- Policies and procedures
- Proposals and evaluations
- Public relations materials
- Reference materials general
- Reports annual
- Reports other
- Résumés and CVs
- Speeches
- Study guides
- Style guides
- Subtitles
- Surveys
- Teachers
- Tests and assessment materials
- Textbooks college and university
- Textbooks elementary and high school
- Theses and dissertations
- Trade non-fiction
- Transcripts and minutes
- Websites
Subjects
- Aboriginal people
- Administration
- Africa
- Animals
- Archaeology and ancient history
- Architecture
- Arts
- Asia
- Australia and Oceania
- Biography
- Business
- Canada
- Central and South America
- Cinema
- Communications
- Construction and real estate
- Culture
- Developing countries
- Earth sciences
- Ecology and environment
- Economics
- Economy politics and law general
- Energy mines and natural resources
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Europe
- Family
- Finance and taxation
- Food and drink
- Gardening and horticulture
- Gender studies
- Geography
- Government
- Government federal
- Government municipal
- Government provincial
- Grammar and linguistics
- Handicrafts
- Health
- Health and medicine general
- Health care
- History
- History Canadian
- Humanities general
- Industry and manufacturing
- Industry and technology general
- Information technology
- Insurance
- International relations
- Labour and employment
- Law
- Leisure general
- Life sciences
- Lifestyles
- Literature
- Medicine
- Medicine alternative
- Music
- North America
- Outdoor recreation
- Pedagogy
- Pharmaceuticals
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Psychology and mental health
- Religion and spirituality
- Sciences general
- Social sciences
- Society general
- Sports
- Technology
- Transportation
- Travel and tourism
- United States
Working Languages
- English