Dar's Correctio
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The right words for the right occasion.
Kemptville, ON K0G 1J0
Canada
ph: 613-816-3277
darlene
My Experience
This page presents some of my past and on-going projects and some samples, if I have them, indicated by the hyperlinks.
Editing & Copy Editing
- 18 titles (see Book Releases tab for list)
- Content and Copy Editor for Lachesis Publishing, Spencerville, Ontario, Canada (www.lachesispublishing.com) (Project Manager and Acquisitions Editor from May 2009 to July 2010).
- Edited Inter-American Conference on Social Security Report 2010, 2011 (Mexico)
- Edited medical research reports and articles for TechSphere (Mexico), Unidad de Investigacion Medica en Bioquimica
Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS, and Epidemiology and Health Services Research Unit - National Medical Centre - Mexican Institute of Social Security - Judge for 2008, 2009, 2010 Silicon Valley RWA Gotcha! Contest (Inspirational Category)
- Alternate judge EPIC 2009 EPPIES competition (annual award for e-published books)
- Editor (on referral basis) for rebel ePublishers, South Africa
- Edited website content for BasicBlack Bookkeeping (www.basicblackbookkeeping.ca)
- Editor of the Space Opera and Time Travel story lines for The Magazine of Unbelievable Stories, working one-on-one with writers to get their stories ready for publication - since this magazine has since folded I am preparing the leftover stories to be published as an anthology, one per storyline.
- Editor for Dr. Vanessa S. O'Neal for her non-fiction book Grant Me the Money; ongoing work for book-length works, personal projects and articles for her e-zine
Transcription
- Transcriptionist for Dr. Ben Altadonna (The Practice Building Alliance) (current) and the UrbanCowgirl.com (webinars and radio programs) (past)
- Current transcriptionist (4 years) for The Micronutrient Initiative (Ottawa, Canada) - board meetings, AGMs and conference calls
- Current transcriptionist (4 years) for Dr. Paul Anstey, Endodontist (Beverly Hills, CA)
- 6 years of oral surgery clinical experience (Argyle Associates, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - office documents, treatment plans, letters to patients and referring dentists, personal correspondence, e-mails, minutes and agendas
- Transcriptionist for Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada and IDRC (as needed)
- Transcriptionist (1 year) CV-SALTS (Central Valley, California)
- Transcribed interviews for Sam Kucey for use in a book on Canadian Women's Soccer Team Coach Even Pellerud published 2005
- Transcribed handwritten sermons from the 1700s
- Transcribed handwritten Native/Government of Canada treaties from the 1800s
- Transcribed letters for Senator Donald H. Oliver, Senate of Canada
Article Writing
- Writer of over 150 articles on women's health issues for empowHer.com (dental, respiratory, mental health, outpatient care)
- Writer of content for dental service websites
- 3 articles published by the Salvation Army in The War Cry and The Salvationist (Canada)
- Wrote three-way rewrites of article and "spun" for use on a variety of websites (on original content only)
- Wrote 12-article series on Indoor Air Quality
- Wrote 3 articles on snowmobiles and 2 articles on Motorized scooters
Document Duplication and Design
- Designed template for health care policy statements
- Reproduced letters from PDF to Word format
- Designed letterhead for Dr. Helmut Ragnitz, and myself.
- Designed template for health care policy statements
Click on the Book Releases tab to view published fiction and non-fiction titles that I have edited or copy edited.
Copyright 2010 Dars Corrections. All rights reserved.
Kemptville, ON K0G 1J0
Canada
ph: 613-816-3277
darlene
