65 Warooka Road
Yorketown SA 5576
Prompt structural, copyediting and proofreading service; on-line or hardcopy; design advice and personal attention.
Experience
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In-house:
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Founding editor Texts in Humanities (SACAE, now University of South Australia). Publications in this series, edited by me, include an Italian/English Legal Glossary; an English/Modern Greek Medical Glossary; also works on Aboriginal Studies, Religion Studies, plus a history of the development of organised labour. Full details on request. Other in-house:- Pacific Myth & Legend: Tales of Kiribati.
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Freelance:
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In retirement from fulltime academic teaching, my freelance editorial projects have included children's books, general fiction, medical articles and the new edition of a classic work on natural childbirth; film treatments & screenplays.
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Other:
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Sometime member of Australian Society of Authors and of Australian Linguistic Society. Worked as an English specialist in several countries. Familiar with most European alphabets including Cyrillic and Greek. Experience in translation issues with eight years as a tertiary trainer of professional interpreters and translators.
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Qualifications
B.A.(Hon. English) Newcastle NSW; M.A., Cert.Ed. (Glasgow); TESOL Level IV, IPEd Accredited Editor
Special skills
Academic editing; scriptwriting; writing and rewriting for special purposes.
Areas of expertise
Biography, Children's books, Dictionaries and etymology, Fiction, Film, History, Languages, Literature, Media studies, Poetry, Travel.
Computer software capability
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Windows
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Spreadsheets:
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MS Excel
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Wordprocessing:
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MS Word
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