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Sylvia Pollard
1168 Old Esquimalt Road
Victoria, BC V9A 4X6
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2019
Profile
I am an editor-writer, with more than 25 years' experience, seeking full-time employment. Currently, I am a freelance book editor with FriesenPress. From 2007 to 2015, I was the full-time Senior Copy Editor of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. As well as editing the journal and various position papers, I wrote monthly media advisories. Before that, I owned and operated my own editing and writing business, Pollard Editing, specializing in literary fiction, and providing editing and writing services to federal government departments, academics, non-profit associations, and private-sector businesses. And before that, I was a Manager, Policy, within the federal government. I have a degree in English and Geography.
Editorial Skills
- Consulting and manuscript evaluation
- Copy editing
- Indexing
- On-screen editing
- Proofreading
- Referencing
- Research and fact-checking
- Rewriting
- Structural and substantive editing
- Stylistic editing
- Writing
Media/Genres
- Academic materials, general
- Academic papers and essays
- Bibliographies
- Books, children's and young adult
- Books, general
- Books, self-published
- Briefs, précis, and executive summaries
- Business materials, general
- Conference materials
- Correspondence
- Fiction
- Government materials, general
- In-house publications
- Indexes
- Magazines
- Manuals and how-to books
- Music notation
- Periodicals, general
- Poetry
- Policies and procedures
- Proposals and evaluations
- Reports, annual
- Style guides
- Theses and dissertations
- Transcripts and minutes
Subjects
- Ecology and environment
- Government, federal
- Literature
- Psychology and mental health
- Social sciences