Editing specialties include: academic writing, grants, educational documents, literary works, writing across the circular/writing in the disciplines, job materials, and business writing.
Completed four years of course work in literature, rhetoric, grammar, creative writing, American history, and the history of the English language. Developed and wrote a thesis paper and passed a comprehensive exam to successfully graduate with my degree.
Completed two years of course work in literature, rhetoric, and creative writing. Developed, wrote, and defended a thesis project in order to qualify for graduation.
Completed two years of course work, one year of exam prep to pass comprehensive exams, and two years to research and complete a book-length dissertation.
Developmental and line edits for university student research papers, analysis papers, and presentations in Intro to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Women's Literature courses.
Developed curriculum and provided developmental edits on the curriculum/teaching materials for others while an academic. Also completed developmental edits for an education non-profit as a freelance editor.
Developmental edits for grant applications, non-profit product descriptions, and non-profit websites.
Developmental edits on university student presentations and faculty/colleague presentations for over 14 years while in academia.
Developmental and line edits on job materials, analysis papers, research papers, and advertisements for university students and faculty while in academia for 14 years.
Developmental edits for single product descriptions and a teacher's guide to the overall curriculum for a K-12 educational non-profit.
Completed developmental edits for National Endowment for the Humanities and National Institute of Health grant applications.
Developmental edits on a non-profit website and a home maintenance business website.