Jeannette Cezan 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.

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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:

• Domain Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools (Cook, Jones, Kent, Wills), 2007.
• Commercializing Great Products with Design for Six Sigma (Perry and Bacon), 2006.
• Pattern Languages of Program Design 5 (Manolescu), 2006.
• Extrusion Detection: Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions (Bejtlich), 2005.
• Core Security Patterns (Steel, Nagappan, and Lai), 2005.
• Missing Data: A Gentle Introduction (Figueredo, McKnight, McKnight, and Sidani).
• 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)

* Book editing (nonfiction)
* Developmental editing (nonfiction)
* Manuscript copyediting and proofreading
* Technical, medical, and scientific copyediting
* Website copyediting and proofreading

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Cynthia Fleming-Wood has over 20 yrs of experience as a technical writer and editor. Her technical aptitude has enabled her to understand and document software in a wide range of subjects, including networking, wafer etching, medical equipment, databases, and CAD/CAM. In addition, she has worked on medical research documentation, including the following subject areas: artificial heart-valves, carcinogenic substances, HIV, renal disease, psychology, and pediatric gastroenterology.

Cynthia creates technical information clearly, economically, accurately, and at an appropriate level for the audience. Her years of teaching make it easy for her to design documentation that meets the needs of the user.

As a technical editor, Cynthia is dedicated to correct grammar and usage and is especially skilled at making edits that maintain the author's original meaning. She also ensures that documents adhere to the adopted style manual. Consistency of presentation ensures a clear understanding of the subject matter.

Among the different types of technical documentation she creates are:

• Quick start guides
• User guides
• System administrator guides
• Online help
• Process engineering guides
• External design specifications

Publishing and Authoring Tools:
FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, RoboHelp, Adobe Acrobat Professional, WebWorks Publisher, Adobe Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, Visio

Operating Systems:Windows XP, Windows 2000, UNIX, Linux,
Other Tools: Documentum, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, FileMaker Pro

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Diane L. Foose has 20 years of experience as a full-time freelance copy editor and proofreader of books and journals in the fields of medicine and health, engineering, mathematics, law, the environment, and the social sciences. Some of the journals she has worked on are The Journal of Legal Medicine, Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, Health Care for Women International, Ocean Development and International Law, Comparative Strategy, Traffic Injury Prevention, and Numerical Heat Transfer. Diane's assignments require an in-depth knowledge of editorial practices, familiarity with specific editorial styles (Chicago, APA, AMA), an understanding of scientific and technical terms, and the ability to handle tables, figures, equations, and other materials.

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Glenn Hilton has 33 years of writing and editing experience, starting with 26 years as a faculty member in the Department of Computing and Information Science at Queen's University in Canada. During this time he supervised numerous Ph.D. and M.Sc. dissertations, served on many examination committees in engineering and the natural sciences, reviewed many articles for research journals, published a textbook in computer systems, and published numerous journal and conference papers.

Since retiring from Queen's he has worked as a technical editor and writer. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering. His subjects of specialization include computer systems, software engineering, computer security, computer science, formal methods, requirements specification, electrical engineering, engineering, mathematics, information technology, telecommunications, computer networks, physics, chemistry, operating systems, UNIX, LaTex, Framemaker, and RoboHELP.

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Suzanne Manness is a college professor specializing in technical and business writing. She has written and edited technical manuals, informational brochures, business proposals, and grants. She has also written computer user manuals and technical instrumentation directions. Additionally, she has edited many medical textbooks and medical articles on such subjects as heart transplants, pain management, and anesthesiology.

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.

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Holly Monteith, a professional copy editor, holds a M.A. in linguistics from Rice University and a B.A. with honors in nonfiction writing from the Johns Hopkins University. She has worked as a copy editor within the scientific/technical/medical peer-reviewed journal industry for over 5 years and has extensive experience copyediting scientific and social science texts ranging from articles to theses to book manuscripts. Ms. Monteith’s copyediting expertise extends beyond the word level to encompass figure, table, and mathematical and chemical equation editing. Ms. Monteith specializes in the APA and Chicago editorial styles.

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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 document's impact and usability.

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Elana Shippen, P.E., is a licensed professional engineer in mechanical engineering with 22 years of experience, including 14 years in the aerospace industry with Boeing Company's commercial airplanes program. She edits scientific and technical material, such as engineering books, design requirement documents, process documents, Request for Proposal (RFP), reference guides, case studies, and academic research papers and journals.

Elana also offers a technical editing course, for those currently working or studying in technical fields. This course provides steps for improving the technical writing style and offers key strategies for enhancing the overall quality of technical communications.

Elana completed the Technical Writing and Editing Certificate Program at the University of Washington in 2001.

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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.

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Barbara von Diether has an Ed.D. from Brigham Young University and was the graduate research and writing coordinator at Utah State University for 12 years. She counseled over 300 students a year who were seeking help with the graduate process, and published a Publication Guide for Graduate Students (Utah State University Press, 1980).

She was the final editorial review for theses and dissertations from 54 departments. She has an M.Ed. from Utah State University in education technology. President of the Utah Conference of the American Association of University Professors, she met with the Board of Regents and college and university presidents to resolve faculty conflicts. She wrote grants for research funding that supported graduate students.

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