Do you need help to communicate your ideas with clarity and precision? Do the rules of grammar and punctuation give you a headache? Do you want a professional layout for an important document? When you need a clean-cut finish to an important document or communication, I’m here to help.
I’m a professional editor and writer, providing services for corporate, not-for-profit, postsecondary and retail clients. My experience includes: hard copy and digital editing; structural, developmental and copy editing; academic writing/editing; content development; coaching and mentoring to develop editing/writing skills; stakeholder management; and strategic planning. I have 20+ years’ experience writing and editing at a major Canadian university.
I am an experienced academic/nonfiction editor specializing in works that engage critically with social and political issues, such as racism, anti-Black racism, colonialism, white supremacy, gender and sexuality, and poverty. I work on both academic texts and narrative nonfiction, including memoirs. Whatever you’re writing, I focus on helping you build strong, convincing arguments that are expressed clearly and passionately.
I am an economist and academic editor with ten years’ experience assisting clients in preparing their manuscripts for publication as books or in journals or for submission to academic committees. These clients are mainly non-native English speakers who are researchers and/or university lecturers.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression! Hi, I’m Catharine, and I’m here to help you make sure that your readers’ first impression is a good one. I review English texts written by speakers of other languages to ensure clarity and flow, without distracting errors. In the medical field, I help authors prepare research articles for publication and review both both physician- and patient-facing texts for clinical trials. I also revise Spanish translations into English of legal and industrial texts. If your document needs a second set of eyes before you hit ‘publish,’ I can help!
I am a member of Sweetgrass First Nation in Saskatchewan and currently reside in Oromocto, New Brunswick. I received my Master of Public Health from the University of Waterloo in 2011, a certificate in Addiction Studies from McMaster University in 2016 and a certificate in editing from Simon Fraser University in 2019. I also received a BSc(H) in biology from Queen’s University in 2007.
I provide research, writing, and editing services to a global clientele. I help my clients produce written works that are coherent, clear, concise, and accurate: government and corporate reports, grant applications, white papers, books, chapters, articles, dissertations/theses, nonfiction books, proposals, application letters, and so on. Nonfiction only, please. We’re serious!
I’m a professional freelance editor with training and experience in copy editing, stylistic and line editing, proofreading, and business and professional writing.
Beyond my training as an editor and writer, I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology with a minor in English and a diploma in Digital Media Design. My diverse educational background gives me a unique set of skills that allows me to be comfortable working in many different subject areas.
My editing expertise arises from my long-time experience as a professional editor, university professor, medical research mentor and writing coach.
I have a BA in archaeology, a MA in social anthropology and a PhD in the sociology of education.
My peer-reviewed articles appear in several journals and can be found via academia.edu
Having a PhD in English from Cambridge and decades of experience, I am a careful reader and writer, equally attentive to precision and nuance in thought and expression. Words can be slippery. Writing can be fuzzy. Except in poetry and fiction, ambiguity can be tiring, if not downright irritating. As an editor, I approach all writing from the dual perspective of the author and the reader. I can help bridge the gap between authors and readers, refining the language to facilitate communication.
I’m an English-language editor and certified French–English translator with an academic background in history and years of experience in the community sector. Let me put my written language skills to work for you!
I have been writing and editing for over forty years, in professional positions such as software documentation specialist and newspaper editor, and as a freelance editor working with many clients. I maintain a high-ranked profile on the Upwork freelance site. Currently (2022) most of my work is for Moose House Publications, a publisher in Nova Scotia, and for the Apache Software Foundation, one of the largest organizations developing and distributing free and open-source software.