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Janice McLeod
Experience: Fifteen years as a plain English consultant, writing and editing business and educational documents and providing customised writing skills programs for public and private sector organisations. Projects include preparing annual reports for the NSW Ombudsman, the Department of Local Government and Centennial Parklands, developing and writing an IPART submission for RailCorp, researching and writing business rules for a new electronic operational glossary for the Department of Defence, writing and editing policies and procedures for Vodafone, developing a correspondence coaching and review program for a government agency, implementing a plain English forms project for the Department of Fair Trading, writing business proposals for PricewaterhouseCoopers, editing national medical workforce reports, preparing manuals for DoCS and NSW Health, and editing a major publication on trust law for the Taxation Institute of Australia. Qualifications: MA in Education, BA(Hons) Social Administration. Computer capability: PC; Windows Vista, Microsoft Word 2007, Powerpoint, Publisher, Excel. Services offered: Plain English writing and editing, customised training courses in writing skills, legal and technical writing, proofreading. Type of material: Annual reports, policy documents, submissions, procedure manuals, forms, training materials, standard letters, business proposals, brochures, newsletters and website content. Subject specialities: Business documents, plain legal language, government and education. Special skills/interests: Helping public and private sector staff to communicate complex concepts, technical information and the content of legislation to a diverse audience. |
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