Professional Skills Summary:
- Extensive writing, editing, and document management experience.
- Knowledge of various software programs including entire MS Office suite, WordPerfect, Dreamweaver, etc.
- Project management, organizational, and administrative skills.
- Proven ability to instruct students at all levels and from all backgrounds.
- Tested ability to work with professionals from all disciplines and
backgrounds.
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Professional Experience:
- Write, edit, and manage documents for a variety of
clients including government (e.g., National Defense University), industry (NM
Court Reporters Association), non-profit organizations and individuals.
- Develop, write, edit, and prepare for publication material for reports,
manuals, briefs, proposals, instruction books, catalogs, and related technical
and administrative publications.
- Specialize in editing manuscripts at all
levels from basic copy-editing to substantive editing/rewriting; working with
authors and other subject area experts to achieve the highest standards of
literary, editorial, research, and analytical excellence.
- Rewrite portions of
manuscripts as necessary, cutting, summarizing, expanding, restructuring, and
clarifying material while preserving the integrity of the author's style, tone,
and meaning.
- Study blueprints, sketches, drawings, parts lists,
specifications, mock-ups, and product samples to integrate and delineate
technology, operating procedure, and production sequence and detail.
- Organize
material and complete writing assignment according to set standards regarding
order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology.
- Fact check
material for accuracy and appropriate documentation formatting. Work requires practical knowledge of scholarly
research methods and writing principles, practices, and resources applicable to
various fields in humanities, theoretical and practical sciences. Ability
fundamentals of scholarly research and writing, including clear purpose,
realizable scope, suitable research methodology, thorough documentation of
sources, scholarly objectivity, originality, coherent organization, persuasive
argument, and logical conclusions or recommendations. Frequently called upon by
client to recommend publishing venues and/or assess likely success at
publishing document(s).
Work also requires an extensive comprehensive,
practical knowledge of the English language, writing techniques, and editing
procedures, symbols, and strategies.
- Copy-edit manuscripts for syntax, grammar,
spelling, punctuation, capitalization, style, publication format, end/footnote
and bibliography format, and use of tables and figures. Some projects require
knowledge of a wide range of principles, practices, and resources associated with
the publishing process, the various printed media, manuscript preparation,
design and typography, and the printing process.
- Prepare manuscripts for and coordinate projects
throughout the production process, which includes design, layout, printing,
post-production tasks including review. Maintain records and files of work and
revisions.
- Present lectures on grammar, writing style, concise writing, and
appropriate format for various groups.
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- Supervisor/Contact: Gail Houston, Chair, Department of English Language and Literature.
- Began position as Assistant Professor in August 1981. Promoted to Full Professor in August 1992.
- Create, manage, research, and
instruct courses for upper-division undergraduate and graduate (doctoral)
program.
- Direct, edit, and guide
research for doctoral dissertations, MA theses, and undergraduate honors theses
in writing, rhetoric, technical discourse, professional communication.
- Analyze
graduate/ postgraduate-level manuscripts in terms of their objectives, intended
readers, writing style, subject matter, and research methodology. Rewrite
portions of manuscripts as necessary, cutting, summarizing, expanding,
restructuring, and clarifying material while preserving the integrity of the
author's style, tone, and meaning.
- Prepare, write, edit and
publish original research (4 books in print, several articles, several book
chapters) on writing in the professions, grammar, rhetoric, copy editing, and
analysis/evaluation of writing quality. As editor for Science Journals International, evaluate research articles for
publication in journals including Journal
of Literature, Language and Linguistics; Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences;Journal of Interpersonal, Intercultural and Mass Communication.
- All
academic and publication work requires practical knowledge of scholarly
research methods and writing principles, practices, and resources in various
fields including humanities, linguistics, natural sciences, and (occasionally)
applied sciences (e.g., engineering) for the purposes of evaluating manuscripts
and checking facts and documentation.
- Design, code, and evaluate
web site for academic courses and independent businesses (including my own
editorial service, B & F Writers). Familiar with Dreamweaver, Notes, and
Photoshop programs; able to write HTML. Completed certificate training in
JavaScript, graphic design, Dreamweaver, and other aspects of web design. Also competent
in MSWord (PC and Mac), Excel, Access, Acrobat 9.0, and other publishing-based
programs.
Administrative Directorships: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1987 - 2003.
- Director, Graduate Program, English Dept., 2002-2003; Director,
Undergraduate Program, English Dept., 2001-2002:
- screen applications, admit,
advise, and complete administrative processes for 100+ graduate and 400+
undergraduate students in PhD and MA English programs.
- Write brochures, web
page copy, and other public relations texts for all directorships.
- Faculty
sponsor for Sigma Tau Delta, honors' fraternity.
- Director, Language/Rhetoric Program 1988-1999:
- set
curricula for MA and PhD concentrations in Language Theory, Rhetoric
Composition and Technical Communication; screen applications, advise on degree
progress.
- Coordinate faculty scheduling; prepare annual reports.
- Director, Freshman Writing, UNM, 1987-1990:
- determine
and justify adequate budgets; hire, evaluate, and supervise teaching assistants
and part-time lecturers;
- design and implement curricula for writing programs;
- counsel students; respond to questions and complaints;
- direct competency-based
writing examinations;
- communicate with faculty and administrators at colleges,
universities, and secondary schools in the region.
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Related Professional Experience:
Director of Publications, American Society of Landscape Architects. Washington, D.C.
- Writer, editor, and designer for ASLA's
monthly newsletter and quarterly magazine (now entitled Landscape
Architecture). Interviewed members for articles; researched and prepared
articles of interest for professional landscape architects; revised and edited
all documents appearing in newsletter and magazine; coordinated art and design
elements with art director.
Advertising Layout/Paste-up
Artist, The [Springfield] Independent. Springfield,VA.
- Designed, drafted, and presented advertising
for newsletter (26-30 quarto pages/week) and shopping guide in Springfield, VA.
Also entered and edited article copy (on MTST) for newspaper including editing
texts to ensure fit in newspaper format. Advertisers varied from antique
sellers to major car dealerships and major food chains.
Training Supervisor, Project
Transition, administered through Virginia Employment Commission. Alexandria, VA.
- Interviewed
counseled, and placed returning Vietnam soldiers as they transitioned out of
military service and into private sector employment. Also assisted with
documentation necessary for discharge, application forms, referrals to
potential employment, follow up on job referrals and interviews. Evaluated and
ensured availability of training programs for qualified military personnel.
Senior Editor/Writer, Applied Science Associates. McLean, VA.
- Wrote, revised, edited,
proofread manuscripts of technical and engineering material including technical reports and self-directed educational documents on chemistry, physics, mathematics, electronics, etc.
- Prepared grant
applications.
- Corrected grammatical irregularities, condense and rephrase
material for succinctness and clarity, and review graphics for consistency and
appropriateness.
Writer, The Literary Encyclopedia On-Line.
Consultant, Encarata Dictionary.
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Education:
Ph.D (English Language and Linguistics; Contemporary
Literature),
University of Kansas, Lawrence,
KS.
Dissertation: The Pragmatics of Cohesion
TESOL Certificate: Teaching English to Speakers of
Other Languages
Georgetown University, Washington,
DC
Master of Arts (American, British, & World Literature)
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
AR
Completed English MA program
and courses for MA in Comparative (World) Literature.
Bachelor of Arts (double major: English and Speech; Minors: German
and Natural Sciences.)
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
AR.
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Selected Publications,
Presentations, Funded Research:
- Guide to British Prose Explication: Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1997.
- The Riverside Handbook of Grammar and Rhetoric. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.
- John le Carré. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1988.
- Solving Problems in Technical Writing. co-ed., New York: Oxford UP, 1988. [Finalist for STC Science Book of the Year, 1989.
- "A History of the English Language by Richard M. Hogg and David Denison," Journal of Anthropological Research 63:3 (Fall 2007): 403-05.
- "Jean-Paul Sartre," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century European Cultural Theorists, Vol. 296, Hansom, Paul, gen ed. (Detroit: Broccoli Clark, 2004): 314-334.
- "John le Carré" in Mystery & Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Vol. 1, Winks, Robin gen ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. [Series won 1999 Edgar Award.]
- "How can technical writing be cohesive and coherent?" in Solving Problems in Technical Writing. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.
In Progress:
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Professional Affiliations:
Authors Guild
Editorial Freelancers Association
Modern Language Association
National Science Writers Association
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