Audrey W.

Education I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, and I have further upskilled by taking Proofreading Mastery and Copyediting courses to improve my service to my clients. I also have Marketing and Public Relations Diplomas. Skills: Copyediting Copyediting in any writing is where I cut out unnecessary verbiage, streamline your writing, clarify your ideas, and eliminate duplication. Generally, people fill up space with unnecessary words, so as an editor, part of my job is to make the content clear and readable. Proofreading This is where I check every line for spelling, typos, spacing, and punctuation; correcting the latter is essential. For example, I'm going to eat grandma or, I'm going to eat, grandma. The comma is king. I have many satisfied post-graduate students who entrusted me with their theses. I have worked for Korean, Chinese, and European clients who have used my skills to ensure their work reads like a native English speaker wrote it. I edit in MS Word or Google Docs and can seamlessly move between US and UK spellings and dialects, although I am a native American speaker. Strengths I am professional, always meet or surpass deadlines, and am very dedicated and conscientious. For example, I was offered an editing and proofreading job just before I went on holiday to Italy. I printed a hard copy and edited it by hand while in Italy. The short deadline was met, and the client was happy. I also took my laptop on holiday to Istanbul to meet another contract's hourly requirements. I will always go the extra mile for my clients. Correct English is critical because the first thing that hits you when you read a badly proofread book or land on a blog or a website is an unpardonable error. You want to give your target market an excellent first impression. Experience I have 30 years of experience in my 'love of English' career and have worked on a plethora of subjects, from perfecting short stories, novels, and how-to e-book guides to business plans and annual operating plans. I was a career Personal Assistant and have been exposed to various document types and fields, e.g., legal, medical, academic theses, etc. Early in my career at Unilever, I was recognized as an English 'fundi' and asked to source and lay out the material, write articles, and produce two of Unilever's in-house magazines while holding down my day-to-day job. As the PA to a Headmistress, I was responsible for compiling the weekly newsletter and all communications with the parents. Allow me to highlight some of the freelance work I have done and am doing: • Correction and rewriting short articles, dissertations, or applications for acceptance to institutions of higher learning written by Chinese-as-a-first-language clients. The original writing is poor and needs a time-consuming makeover. • A Belgian company uses me to correct its strategic plans, annual operating plans, proposals, KPIs, and minutes. • A US client used my services to proofread their writers' articles on travel destination guides. I moved up to write articles for them. • Another company asked me to research the net worth of millionaires and write stories about how they made their millions. • I have just finished a contract with a website owner who hired teams of writers to write copy/blogs on various topics ranging from financial tips to highly technical documents. My job was to proofread and edit their submissions to ensure the grammar was uniformly correct and error-free, paying particular attention to SEO. • Several clients have been fiction and non-fiction writers who engaged me to ensure their work was ship-shape and ready for publication. • I have recently completed proofreading and editing a manual on tips for police rookies. He was delighted with my work, as his testimonial attests. • I have proofread and edited blog posts for an online company whose topics are food-centric. I am not afraid to work overtime and on weekends and make time to take on short- and long-term projects. Examples of the types of texts I edit: If you hire me, you’ll get: - Manually line-edited content - Fast turnaround - Meticulous attention to detail - Fact-checking - Detailed in-text comments and clarifications - One Microsoft Word (.docx) document marked up with Tracked Changes (where applicable) - One 'clean' Microsoft Word document (where applicable) - A short post-completion debrief offering concise comments and suggestions (where applicable) My client-centric philosophy, education, skills, and experience ensure that you are a satisfied client when I sign off on my final submissions. Kind regards Audrey