Protect and Project Your Image
Your business documents should reflect the values and standards of your organization and the quality of the products and services you market. Any letter, handout, or other piece of information you put in the hands of potential clients is, in effect, you. Prospects may not read beyond the first few lines if they lack clarity, succinctness, and impact. A polished presentation can make the difference between a business that flourishes and one that falters or even fails.
Simple Solutions
We can help you to project a first-class, professional image with every document you release, both internally and externally. Every writing or editing project, big or small, has our undivided attention, and we honor your deadlines whether you are a one-person operation or represent a corporation with thousands of employees.
Business Writers and Editors
Jeannette Cezan. Imagine
your customers getting excited about doing business with you! Jeannette can make that happen. She has been successfully promoting businesses and other organizations for over twenty years, from creating Web sites to creating copy for start-ups to writing scripts for commercial video presentations. She is creative and persuasive with brochures, flyers, and other public relations and marketing materials for both profit and nonprofit agencies, and specializes in fine detail and fast turnaround. She does research, fact-checking, and copywriting, Web content and design, and all phases of editing, from light touchups to complete rewrites. She also does technical writing and technical editing on Windows, UNIX, and Macintosh platforms. She has worked with clients as diverse as Harvard University, Barnes & Noble, and IBM.
Esther David-Roland is a writer and editor whose experience includes writing and editing in technical and non-technical subject areas. She has worked as a journalist, writer, and editor for more than 25 years and brings her many years of experience to each project. As a freelance copyeditor, Esther has worked with major publishers, businesses, and individuals, and has worked extensively with authors whose native language is not English.
Recent books she has edited include:
American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War (Dorn), 2007.
Domain Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools (Cook, Jones, Kent, Wills), 2007.
Stock Options and Executive Compensation, Stock Option Alternatives
Cisco Routers for the Desperate: Router Management, The Easy Way (Lucas).
The Linux Enterprise Cluster (Kopper).
ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated (Homer and Sussman)
Advanced Technologies in Biopharmaceutical Processing (Dutton and Scharer)
The Feline Patient: Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment, 3rd Edition (Norsworthy).
* Book editing (nonfiction)
* Developmental editing (nonfiction)
* Manuscript copyediting and proofreading
* Technical, medical, and scientific copyediting
* Website copyediting and proofreading
Debra Fisher is president and owner of an independent education, learning, and communications consulting business. She graduated summa cum laude with majors in English and education from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. With a minor in philosophy, critical thinking permeates all her work as a writing consultant and instructional designer for online learning. She holds a post-baccalaureate certification in instructional design from the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instructions (IBSTPI) and a secondary education teaching certification in English from the State of Arizona.
Jennifer Gardner is a freelance proofreader and copyeditor who loves fact checking and is accomplished at substantive and structural editing. Her background is primarily in scientific and scholarly journals and books for publishers such as Taylor & Francis books and CRC Press as well as in "soft" science publications for such presses as Allworth and Pointed Leaf.
Jo-Ann Langtree writes and edits books, stories, and articles in the following fields: business, medical, insurance, health, holistic health, spirituality, religion, psychic phenomena, young-adult fiction, children's books, mystical experience, self-help, New Age, nutrition, diet, exercise, saints & masters, gurus, theosophy, Christianity, homeopathy, vitamins & minerals, herbs, and food supplements. She was a writer and editor for Aetna Life & Casualty. As editor of Life NEWS, she had sole responsibility for finding, developing, writing, editing, and proofing all articles. Topics included new products, sales campaigns, insurance-agent interviews, accolades, seminars, Company acquisitions and policies. Jo-Ann also edits personal and business sites.
Suzanne Manness teaches technical and business writing. As a freelancer, he has done such projects as writing total electrical manuals for Gulf Power Company, a subsidiary of the Southern Power Company in Atlanta. She has rewritten and redesigned informational brochures for University of West Florida, prepared business proposals, written grants, and designed fundraising booklets for community groups. She has also written computer user manuals and technical instrumentation directions. She is an expert in all documentation systems such as Chicago Style, Harvard, APA, American Anthropological Association, and MLA. Her specialty is taking complex material and translating that material into a clear, concise, audience-friendly document.
Ron Marmarelli's clients have included Del Mar Mortgage Company, for whom he edited a self-published book on trust deeds investments, and Crescent Manufacturing Company, for whom he edited a safety and health manual. With experience in public relations and in teaching PR writing, he can assist with writing and editing a wide range of PR materials. He is a published biographer and historian, a former newspaper journalist, and a university professor who has been working as a freelance editor since 2000. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism and has done doctoral work in American studies.
Arlene W. Robinson makes complicated terminology interesting, lively, and reader-friendly, and can make your advertising copy irresistible. From Americanization of documents for her international clients to complete policy and procedure manuals, Arlene is sensitive to each client's unique needs and budget, and has a proven track record of client satisfaction. Arlene also offers assistance to business clients who want to produce full-length self-help and how-to books.
Nancy Rosenbaum's experience includes writing and editing materials (functional specs, users guides, administrators guides, release notes, data sheets, quick reference guides, training material, help text, test plans with use cases) for commercial software and hardware companies, as well as the internal IT departments of pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and consulting companies. Nancy has also written and edited multi-volume permit applications, operating guides, hazard communications standards, and emergency response procedures for environmental engineering and remediation companies. Nancy ensures each document is targeted to its audience, maximizing the documents impact and usability.
Elana Shippen, P.E., is a licensed professional engineer in mechanical engineering At Boeing, she worked as an engineering manager and lead project engineer in their commercial airplanes program. As a consulting engineer, documented design specifications HVAC systems. She edits scientific and technical material such as engineering reports, design specifications, process documents, requests for proposals (RFPs), reference guides, case studies, and mathematics research documents. Elana completed the Technical Writing and Editing Certificate Program at the University of Washington in 2001. She is experienced with various style manuals.
Melissa Simpson teaches academic writing and business and technical communications at Hendrix College and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universities. She is skilled in MLA, APA, and Chicago manuals of style. Her work includes writing, editing and testing educational/tutorial manuals and users manuals. She has edited resumes, application letters, fiction and non-fiction books, textbooks, bibliographies, theses, and dissertations. She holds a Master of Arts degree in English and a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction in English (summa cum laude). She is also a published author whose biography of author Flannery O'Connor was published in 2005.
A. J. Sobczak is an editor, proofreader, and writer (business writing, business methods, business history, communication, literary analysis) with more than
20 years of experience in the publishing industry. He works directly with authors of academic articles and books as well as working for publishers. As an in-house editor for Salem Press (6 years) and freelance editor for Sage Publications (since 1993), along with work for University of California Press, ABC-CLIO, Rowman & Littlefield, and other clients, he has edited dozens of books and journals in various topics in the social and hard sciences, including economics, research methods, mathematics, political science, psychology, business and management, supply chain theory, and history.
He is an expert in APA and Chicago styles and is on several publishers' lists of "go-to" editors for books with mathematical content.. His writing on business and economics has appeared in several reference volumes, and he is the editor of and a contributor to Great Events from History II: Business and Commerce, containing approximately 500 articles on critical events in 20th-century business history.
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