Wendy Monaghan Editing Services

Experience: Four years as a freelance editor providing services to corporate, government, academic and NGO clients. Four years as in-house editor for the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) editing FECCA’s national magazine Australian mosaic, the FECCA website and annual reports. Several years of marketing/sales experience in the Australian book publishing industry, including with Penguin Books and Melbourne University Press.

Qualifications: Diploma of Professional Editing and Proofreading (ACJ). Various professional development courses conducted by the Canberra Society of Editors.

Computer capability: PC; Windows 7, Microsoft Word 2007, Publisher, Excel, Internet Explorer.

Services offered: Structural editing, copy editing and proofreading, onscreen and hardcopy editing, re-writing, fact-checking, project management, picture searching, corporate editing and writing, web editing.

Type of material: Magazines, annual reports, academic papers, reports, conference proceedings and handbooks, corporate manuals, websites, newsletters, marketing material / brochures.

Subject specialities: Social sciences, humanities, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, cultural heritage, human rights, advocacy, health, the environment, politics, the media, women's issues, the arts and current affairs.

Special skills/interests: Highly skilled with multi-author publications. Project management from initial concept to publication, including commissioning contributors; liaising with authors, photographers, advertisers/sponsors, designers and printers; editing; picture searching; layout and distribution.

Editing work by writers from non-English speaking backgrounds; dealing sensitively with cultural issues.

Advanced Internet research skills.