Business Writing & Editing
• Informational
Booklet – Concise description of the audiobook production
process, with marketing and distribution insights, for new and prospective
audio publishers
• e-Mail Blast
– Makeover of trade-group event announcement, to add energy and increase
attendance
Website Writing & Development
• Website – Freelance editor’s site
structured and written as a gently persuasive promotional tool
• Web Features
– Thematic websites, edited, fact checked, and copy supervised for
Encyclopædia Britannica
• Online Showroom – Web venue designed,
written, and built to display samples artist’s hand-painted wearable art
Educational Writing & Editing
• Survey Article
– Excerpt from updated, internationalized, and expanded “Storytelling”
article for Compton’s Encyclopedia, extending from ancient oral
traditions to contemporary business trends
• Study
Guide Activity – Reworking of producer’s original
idea to clarify the activity, tailor to age group, add suggestive detail,
create a narrative feel, offer options, personalize
Promotional Copy
• Book
Jacket – Redo of audiobook cover blurb, punched up to
heighten appeal and mood of adventure
• Promotional
Brochure – Mock-up of long-form promotional piece
designed to present organizational consultant for speaking opportunities
Technical Training
• Software
Tutorial – Introduction & Chapter 1 of a tutorial
and reference guide created to teach extensively customized editorial software
to editorial publishing division with a wide range of experience and
receptivity
Scriptwriting
• Audio Program
– Script about popular “power beads” phenomenon, created as trade-show
takeaway
• Edutainment Sketch
– Comic pastiche on English-language quirks, scripted for school-touring
performance troupe
Adaptation & Comprehensive Revision
• Condensed
Rewrite – Condensed adaptation, rather than excision,
of some passages helped preserve flow and complex story line of heavily
abridged audiobook
• Essay
Rewrite – Revision for English-language publication
of short article by Indian subject expert whose second or third language is
English
Journal Articles
• Feature
Article – Second in a two-part series on managing
editor-writer relationships, commissioned by Copy Editor (now Copyediting),
the authoritative resource for book and periodical copyediting
• Invited
Article – State-of-the-industry report on the 2003
Audio Publishers Association Conference, commissioned by AudioFile
magazine
Research
• Workshop
Outline – Framework for multi-session workshop on
successful and efficient on-the-job use of the Internet for research
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