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Website: https://www.suzannemethot.ca/
Profile
Skilled developmental editor, structural editor, line editor, content reviewer, and sensitivity reader with 30 years of experience in a range of subjects and sectors.
• Indigenous editor/writer who works with non-Indigenous authors to ensure text accurately reflects Indigenous histories, experiences, and perspectives.
• Three decades of experience working with Indigenous authors to create authentic text that maintains author voice.
• Expert at creating compelling narrative non-fiction scenes, fixing/creating structure, deciding what information or narrative is missing, and deciding what needs to be cut.
• Expert line editor who can fix passive voice and create clear, effective, interesting, and well-written sentences.
• Specialist in equity, diversity, anti-racism, anti-oppression, and social justice. Undergraduate degree in History and English Literature. Post-graduate degree in Education.
• Former classroom teacher with experience creating/editing elementary and secondary curriculum, textbooks, classroom resources, and educator guides.
Freelance clients include:
• Broadleaf Books
• Orca Book Publishers
• Scholastic Canada
• Scholastic U.S.
• ABC Life Literacy
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Shkaabe Makwa)
• McGill University Participatory Cultures Lab
• University of Alberta
• Ningwakwe Learning Press
• A Space Gallery
• McMaster Museum of Art
• CultureLink
In-house experience includes:
• Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly (managing editor)
• Fuse: Art, Culture, Politics (editorial director)
• NOW Weekly (copy editor/proofreader)
• Vancouver/Toronto/Ottawa Computes (copy editor/proofreader)
• Anishinabek News (editor)
• Carswell/Thomson Reuters (editor/proofreader, Business Reference Group)
• SDI Media Canada (English subtitle editor)
Training and certification:
• Copy Editing I and Copy Editing II (Freelance Editors’ Association of Canada, 1991)
• Editing for Newsletters (Freelance Editors’ Association of Canada, 1992)
• Writing for Magazines (George Brown College, 1993)
Editorial Skills
- Adaptations
- Canadianization
- Consulting and manuscript evaluation
- Copy editing
- Developmental or project editing
- On-screen editing
- Online editing
- Plain language
- Production editing
- Proofreading
- Research and fact-checking
- Rewriting
- Structural and substantive editing
- Stylistic editing
- Web adaptation
- Writing
Media / Genres
- Academic books and monographs
- Academic materials general
- Academic papers and essays
- Advertising and marketing materials
- Anthologies
- Atlases maps plans
- Blogs
- Booklets
- Books art and photography
- Books children
- Books general
- Books self-help
- Briefs précis and executive summaries
- Brochures
- Business materials general
- Catalogues
- Conference materials
- Cookbooks
- Correspondence
- Curriculum guidelines
- Educational materials general
- Fiction
- Government materials general
- Guidebooks
- In-house publications
- Magazines
- Manuals and how-to books
- Multimedia
- Newsletters
- Newspapers
- Periodicals general
- Policies and procedures
- Proposals and evaluations
- Public relations materials
- Reference materials general
- Reports annual
- Reports other
- Speeches
- Study guides
- Style guides
- Subtitles
- 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
- Animals
- Archaeology and ancient history
- Arts
- Biography
- Canada
- Communications
- Culture
- Ecology and environment
- Economy politics and law general
- Entertainment
- Europe
- Family
- Food and drink
- Gardening and horticulture
- Gender studies
- Geography
- Government
- Government federal
- Government municipal
- Government provincial
- Handicrafts
- Health
- Health and medicine general
- Health care
- History
- History Canadian
- Humanities general
- Leisure general
- Life sciences
- Lifestyles
- Literature
- Medicine
- Medicine alternative
- Music
- North America
- Outdoor recreation
- Pedagogy
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Psychology and mental health
- Religion and spirituality
- Sciences general
- Social sciences
- Society general
Working Languages
- English
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