Editor Profile

Marie Lesoway

Profile

My background is an eclectic mix of business training (MBA) enhanced by the creative thinking skills and discipline of an arts education (Classics and English). I am an excellent interviewer with a gift for digging out the details and presenting them in polished, interesting, readable documents—from newsletters and promotional materials to feature articles, strategic and business plans, how-to manuals, memoirs, briefings, feasibility studies, biographies, and corporate reports. I have 20+ years of experience in research and communications (planning, project management, writing, and editing) for educational institutions, corporations, community-based organizations and government agencies. Use my pen to tackle your communication challenges! 

Editorial Skills

  • Copy editing
  • Consulting and manuscript evaluation
  • Developmental or project editing
  • On-screen editing
  • Online editing
  • Plain language
  • Proofreading
  • Research and fact-checking
  • Rewriting
  • Structural and substantive editing
  • Stylistic editing
  • Writing

Media / Genres

  • Abstracts
  • Academic books and monographs
  • Advertising and marketing materials
  • Anthologies
  • Bibliographies
  • Blogs
  • Booklets
  • Books art and photography
  • Books general
  • Books self-help
  • Books self-published
  • Briefs précis and executive summaries
  • Brochures
  • Business materials general
  • Catalogues
  • Conference materials
  • Correspondence
  • Dictionaries directories and encyclopedias
  • Government materials general
  • Grant applications and fundraising
  • Guidebooks
  • Hand-written materials
  • In-house publications
  • Manuals and how-to books
  • Newsletters
  • Policies and procedures
  • Proposals and evaluations
  • Public relations materials
  • Reference materials general
  • Reports annual
  • Reports other
  • Speeches
  • Study guides
  • Style guides
  • Surveys
  • Websites

Subjects

  • Administration
  • Archaeology and ancient history
  • Architecture
  • Arts
  • Biography
  • Business
  • Canada
  • Communications
  • Culture
  • Ecology and environment
  • Energy mines and natural resources
  • Family
  • Government
  • History
  • Humanities general
  • Life sciences
  • Sciences general
  • Society general
  • History Canadian
  • Music

Working Languages

  • English
  • Ukrainian
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