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ClearText

email: patricia (at) dheaf.plus.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 (www.louisbolk.org)
• International Forum for Genetic Engineering -- conference proceedings 1996 to 2002 (www.science.anth.org.uk/ifgene/2002.htm)
• Sustainable Gwynedd Gynaladwy -- Directory of Best Practice (2004); various briefing sheets (http://www.gwyneddgynaladwy.org.uk/ website currently down)
• Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion, Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland - three volumes of 'A Guide to Healing Plants' (2005/6) (www.science.goetheanum.org)
• Rudolf Steiner Press and others - several books (2006-2012) (www.rudolfsteinerpress.com)
• Documents on French History, John Bulaitis (2008)
• Fundamentals of Projective Geometry, Lou de Boer (2009)
• Eisteddfa Fishery brochure (2009) (www.eisteddfa-fisheries.com)
• 'L'Apiculture pour Tous', Abbé Warré - translation and edit (2007) see 'Beekeeping for All' (http://warre.biobees.com/bfa.htm)
• Rudolf Steiner Press (2009) (www.templelodge.com)
• The Bee-friendly Beekeeper, David Heaf (2010) (www.bee-friendly.co.uk)
• Nature Spirits and What they Tell Us, Brian Strevens, due for publication in Flensberg Hefte (2012)

Training

• Copy-editing course run by the Publishing Training Centre at Book House, London (http://www.train4publishing.co.uk/)

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.

Page last updated April 2012