copy-editing proofreading
editing style publishing
ClearText
ClearText@freeuk.com
+44 (0)1766 523181
ClearText is here to act as a midwife for your publication. It will make sure that
what you have to say is clear and unambiguous, and save you, the author, from embarrassing
errors, all without changing your unique voice.
Some recent copy-editing work
- Prince of Wales International Business
Leaders Forum -- partnership workbook
- Louis Bolk Institute -- several papers on
organic plant variety research protocols for presentation to the Dutch Government
- International Forum for Genetic Engineering
-- conference proceedings 1996 to 2002 (www.ifgene.org/2002.htm)
- Sustainable Gwynedd Gynaladwy -- Directory
of Best Practice (2004); various briefing sheets (www.gwyneddgynaladwy.org.uk)
- Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion, Goetheanum,
Dornach, Switzerland - three volumes of 'A Guide to Healing Plants' (2005/6)
- Rudolf Steiner Press and others - several
books (2006/7)
- 'L'Apiculture pour Tous', Abbé Warré -
translation and edit (2007) see 'Beekeeping for All' www.mygarden.me.uk/beekeeping_for_all.pdf
Training
Background
- teaching certificate from University of
Oxford
- teaching English and French in Further
Education and schools
- published writer
Skills
- copy-editing
- proofreading
- re-structuring where necessary for meaning
and clarity
- dealing with tables and graphs
- layout of figures
- layout of poetry and drama
- bibliographies, references and notes
- obtaining permissions and checking for
libel
- obtaining copyright clearance
- writing promotional copy (jacket blurb)
- indexing
ClearText is particularly interested in copy-editing works of philosophy (political
and otherwise), education, sociology, fiction, religion, agriculture and the environment,
Welsh affairs and poetry.