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Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT

Newark, NJ, US • 10 - 19 Employees
College/University

¶ Skilled and sensitive editor, drawing on 15+ years' training and experience across some 400 titles to tailor your words to engage your audience and amplify your voice¶ Specialist in conscious (inclusive) language, alert to issues of gender, race, disability and other protected characteristics, as well as neurodiversity and body type¶ On-screen editor in MS Word, partnering extensive training and experience with efficiency tools targeting a high-quality product and low production costs¶ On-screen proofreader in Adobe Acrobat, particularly skilled at suggesting cost-effective solutions to issues that will impact negatively on a reader's experience¶ Experienced in developing bespoke and implementing existing style guides, including Oxford and Chicago, OSCOLA and Bluebook, to boost your brand's clarity and consistency¶ Expertise in Word templates adds value in developing business branding, marking up complex typography and setting text for anyone publishing directly from Word¶ Substantive editing (sub-editing) or rewriting to fit constrained spaces and/or to deliver impactful brand or other key messages¶ Additional skills include legal tabling and conversion from US, Canadian or other Englishes to UK English, including idiom and experience¶ Media edited spans policies and reports, technical manuals and procedures, marketing literature, learning materials (print and online), books (single-author and multi-contributor; print and/or e-books), journals and magazines, and websites¶ Extents tackled range from paragraph-length personal statements to 1,250,000-wd tomes cited as authority in courts of law¶ Clients include publishers, large corporates and small businesses, non-profits and independent authors, among them several renowned legal authorities, as well as authors writing in English as a second or other language