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Sylvia Barrett
Touchplate Editorial and Design Service
Kingston, ON
CanadaPrimary contact:
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2019
Profile
I specialize in developmental and line editing nonfiction, especially history, geography, science, health, and environmental issues. A Ryerson journalism graduate, I have more than three decades' experience, including 15 years as a senior editor at national magazines. For my full bio, see http://www.touchplate.ca/bios
Editorial Skills
- Consulting and manuscript evaluation
- Developmental or project editing
- Plain language
- Production editing
- Rewriting
- Structural and substantive editing
- Stylistic editing
- Writing
Media/Genres
- Booklets
- Books, general
- Brochures
- Educational materials, general
- Government materials, general
- Guidebooks
- In-house publications
- Magazines
- Newsletters
- Newspapers
- Periodicals, general
- Public relations materials
- Reports, annual
- Reports, other
- Trade non-fiction
- Websites
Subjects
- Arts
- Canada
- Communications
- Culture
- Earth sciences
- Ecology and environment
- Gardening and horticulture
- Geography
- Health
- Health and medicine, general
- Health care
- History
- History, Canadian
- Humanities, general
- Life sciences
- Medicine
- Medicine, alternative
- Psychology and mental health
- Social sciences
- Society, general