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Ruth Kennedy

Ruth Kennedy
3/64 Coorara Avenue
Payneham South SA 5070

Business:

0423 323 038

Email:

ruthgarveykennedy@gmail.com

I offer typing, typesetting, proofreading, editing, writing/re-writing, project management and picture research services in the following areas: academic/non-academic, textbooks, business, history, biography, health, counselling, theology, spirituality, children’s books, fiction and poetry.

Experience

In-house:

I have worked as Managing Editor in a major publishing house for 10 years.

Freelance:

I have also worked as a freelance editor and proofreader during this 10 years.

Qualifications

BA in English; Certificate in Editing.

Special skills

Academic editing, Design for effective communication, Multimedia, On-screen editing, Picture research, Publication production, Project management, Speech writing, Teaching editing and writing skills, Wordprocessing, Writing and rewriting

Areas of expertise

Alternative therapies and philosophies, Biography, Business, Children’s books, counselling, Education and training, Ethics, Fiction, Health, History, Literature, men’s health, Philosophy, Poetry, Social services, spirituality, theology, Women’s studies

Computer software capability

 

Windows

Macintosh
Database: Access Access
Graphics: Illustrator, Photoshop Illustrator, Photoshop
Page layout: QuarkXpress, InDesign QuarkXpress, InDesign
Spreadsheets: Excel Excel
Wordprocessing: Word, WordPerfect Word, Pages, Framemaker