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Desolie Page
Chris Pearce
Margaret Perry
Dr Roslyn Petelin
Peter Storer Editorial Services
Proof etc. (Justine Gannon)
Quality Edge (Rhonda Haslam)


Desolie Page

Tel: 07 3289 1647
Email: PageBD@bigpond.com

Availability: Part-time

Services offered: Editing, proofreading, copywriting, style guide preparation, training in writing strategies, technical writing, and use of style guide.

Special interests: Business and technical editing.

Experience: With a background in education and quality management, I set up Perfect Pages in 2003 with a focus on helping small business owners solve their writing problems. In response to perceived needs and requests from clients, my services now include:
Business editing: web pages, standard letters, advertising letters and brochures, employment agreements, proposals. Types of businesses: real estate, book-keeping, web designer, B&B, IT professionals, marketing, alternative medicine, local government, finance broker.
Technical editing: Engineering (proposals, reports, submissions to national and international journals); Research and development (reports, submissions to national and international journals and conferences); Environment (reports to companies and statutory bodies, booklets for science and general readers).
Community/not-for-profit organisations editing: newsletters, booklets, posters, brochures, funding applications.
Style guide and template preparation: preparation of standard report templates and style guide for engineering consultancy, research and development organisation and exercise physiologist, followed by training in their use.
Training: development and presentation of a writing strategy for business writers workshop; development and presentation of technical writing workshops for engineering consultancies, research and development organisation and exercise physiologist; assessment of employees' writing skills and provision of coaching to improve abilities, particularly with ESL writers.

Qualifications: AE, Accredited Editor; Assessment and Workplace Training; Professional Writing (Editing & Proofreading); Quality Management; Teaching - General Primary.

Special skills: Developing style guides; reviewing technical documents from a layman's perspective plain English; document formatting.


Chris Pearce

81 Waverley Street
Annerley Qld 4103
Tel: 07 3892 5853 (h), 07 3225 8361 (w)
Email: c_pearce@bigpond.net.au

Availability: Part-time; weekends and evenings.

Services offered: Editing, proofreading.

Special interests: Government reports, technical material including statistical reports, annual/business reports, history.

Experience: More than 20 years researching, writing, editing and proofreading government and business reports, publications and other documents. Twelve years in commercial environments and 16 in public service. Background in management, statistics, economics, market and other research, marketing, business planning, accounting and history.

Qualifications: BEcon (Hons), MBA (Management, Marketing), Grad Mgt Cert (Writing, Editing and Publishing).

Special skills: Attention to detail, plain English, statistical documents, quick turnaround.


Margaret Perry

2/4 Werner Place
Nerang Qld 4211
Tel: 07 5578 2203
Fax: 07 5578 2203
Email: maggiep@broad.net.au

Availability: Part-time.

Services offered: Editing, proofreading, indexing, manuscript assessment.

Special interests: Craft, family history, knitting, martial arts, cross-stitch, motor sports.

Experience: Two years sub-editor national magazines, UK.

Other Relevant Experience: Published writer, interested researcher.

Qualifications: Certificate of Editing & Proofreading.

Areas of expertise : Annual reports; biography; environment; family/local history; fiction; medicine and health; newsletters and magazines; reference; science; agriculture; equine.


Dr Roslyn Petelin

School of English, Media Studies and Art History
University of Queensland
St Lucia Qld 4072
Tel: 07 3365 3212
Fax: 07 3365 2799
Email: r.petelin@uq.edu.au
Website: http://www.uq.edu.au

Availability: Part-time.

Services offered: Editing, research, writing.

Special interests: Annual/business reports, art books/the Arts.

Experience: Editor of the Australian Journal of Communication since 1988; author of texts on corporate and academic writing; convenor of and senior lecturer in the writing, editing and publishing program at the University of Queensland.

Qualifications: BA, PhD, ASDA.


Peter Storer Editorial Services

13 Cumberland Road
Wights Mountain Qld 4520
Tel: 07 3289 7858
Email: peter_storer[at]iprimus[dot]com[dot]au (NB: address disguised to avoid receiving junk mail)
ABN: 23 954 679 083

Availability: Full-time.

Services offered: Copy editing (electronic or hard copy), structural editing, project management, production supervision, content reviews, photography, research.

Special interests: Science (especially biology and environmental science), medicine and health, financial content (especially equities), annual/business reports, educational books (all levels), periodicals, reference material, web documents.

Experience: In-house: 1981-1985 Editor and Senior Editor, Oxford University Press, UK (scientific journals and books); 1986-1988 Curriculum Unit, Papua New Guinea (textbooks, teacher materials and curriculum documents); 1989-2005 Editor, Senior Editor and Managing Editor, John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane (textbooks, teacher materials and electronic documents for secondary schools and tertiary institutions); course developer and lecturer in Diploma of Editing and Publishing at TAFE; Freelance since March 2006.

Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Zoology (Hull, UK), MSc Applied Fish Biology (Plymouth, UK).

Special skills: Dealing with scientific content at all levels; project management; finance books; professional and reference books; non-fiction books; company and annual reports; photography.


 

Proof etc. (Director: Justine Gannon)

PO Box 13048, George Street
Brisbane Qld 4003
Tel: 07 3201 2789
Mobile: 0410 041 318
Email: justine@proofetc.com

Availability: Full-time.

Services offered: Research, writing, editing, proofreading, design and illustration.

Special interests: Economics, finance, government policy, transport.

Experience: After 15 years writing for public, private, and academic sectors, Justine Gannon created Proof etc. Proof etc. provides services to a range of clients including financial institutions, government departments, and non-government organisations.

Other relevant experience: Proof etc. has experience in researching and writing academic and conference papers, policy papers, Ministerial briefings, commissioned reports, and communication materials including web sites.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts (Japanese, economics); Master of Social Science (economics); Graduate Diploma Writing, Editing, and Publishing.

Special skills: Proof etc. has in-house graphic design capabilities. We also collaborate with talented designers, web site creators, and artists to provide a complete document production service.


 

Quality Edge (Rhonda Haslam)

PO Box 3476
Nerang BC Qld 4211
Mobile: 0419 635 433
Email: rhonda.haslam@qualityedge.com.au

Availability: Part-time, Monday to Friday; prefer home base, on-site considered.

Services offered: Editing copy, proofreading.

Special interests: Art books/the Arts.

Experience: Copyediting and proofreading for small business and publishers: educational material, submission papers, newspaper articles, marketing documentation and program preparation.

Qualifications: Diploma of Professional Writing (Editing and Proofreading) Australian College of Journalism 2002.

Special skills: Production knowledge of theatre, festival and advertising to help the publishing process for clients working in similar fields.