Writing & Editing Services
I'm a freelance writer and editor. I've written and edited news articles, features, and promotional copy for newspapers, magazines, websites, radio, and television, adapting to the unique style of each medium. I can generate fresh copy for you or sharpen what you've already got.
Writing
I got my start in journalism writing sports articles for The Medium, the student newspaper at the University of Toronto Mississauga. I became the paper's Sports Editor, then News Editor, then Editor-in-Chief. After I graduated, I studied journalism at Sheridan College where I learned the theory behind what I was already practicing. Now, as a freelancer, I write news and feature articles for newspapers, magazines, and websites.
Here's some of my work:
I've also written several types of corporate communications and promotional materials (e.g., training manuals, newsletters, brochures, media releases, website copy, advertorials, and recruitment materials). I can help you promote your organization with the right words and the right tone so you're connecting with your target market.
Here's some of my work:
- Headline: “What's Missing from your Marketing Plan? Great Events”
Publication: Canadian Bookseller Magazine | Fall 2011
- Headline: “Grad Bridges Understanding of West Nile Virus”
Publication: University of Toronto Mississauga Alumni Matters Magazine | Fall 2005
- Headline: “All in the Family: Generation by Generation, UTM is Building Tradition”
Publication: University of Toronto Mississauga Alumni Matters Magazine | Spring 2005
- Headline: “City okays airport expansion”
Publication: The West End Revue | Dec. 2002
I've also written several types of corporate communications and promotional materials (e.g., training manuals, newsletters, brochures, media releases, website copy, advertorials, and recruitment materials). I can help you promote your organization with the right words and the right tone so you're connecting with your target market.
Editing
Whether you're a business professional or a student, I can ensure you're communicating your message clearly and efficiently.
Business
Quality businesses communicate with quality writing. They don't settle for mediocre writing. I'll help you polish company documents so you're delivering your message as professionally, succinctly, and appropriately as possible to your target audience.
Academia
You are writing to persuade, to argue a premise, to demonstrate comprehension, to communicate findings. I'll help you express what you want to say and make that thesis, that essay, that term paper shine.
My goals as an editor:
Contact me for a quote on writing or editing.
Business
Quality businesses communicate with quality writing. They don't settle for mediocre writing. I'll help you polish company documents so you're delivering your message as professionally, succinctly, and appropriately as possible to your target audience.
Academia
You are writing to persuade, to argue a premise, to demonstrate comprehension, to communicate findings. I'll help you express what you want to say and make that thesis, that essay, that term paper shine.
My goals as an editor:
- identify your target audience
- understand the message you're trying to convey
- retain the meaning of your original text while sharpening detail and ensuring directness and economy
- rewriting (creating a new manuscript or parts of a manuscript)
- structural editing (clarifying/reorganizing a manuscript for content and structure)
- stylistic editing (clarifying meaning, eliminating jargon, polishing language)
- copy editing (editing for grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation)
- proofreading (checking formatted, edited material for minor design/copy errors)
- substantively edited guidance documents for Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) and Certified Management Accountants (CMA) Canada
- proofread and copy edited award-winning computer and consumer books published by John Wiley and Sons, Canada:
- led a group that edited Communicating Science: A Collection by New Writers 2nd Edition (Life Rattle Press, 2003), required reading for U of T Mississauga's undergraduate Science and Writing course.
Contact me for a quote on writing or editing.