Deanna Brady is a highly versatile freelance writer and editor with more than two decades of experience. Known as an "editor's editor," she ghostwrites, rewrites, develops, and copyedits a wide range of material, including self-help/how-to books, novels (both literary and genre fiction), creative nonfiction, biographies/memoirs, proposals, cover and query letters, articles, essays, scripts, business communications, and Web content. She has written and edited marketing and advertising copy for Fortune 500 companies and is adept at editing ESL and translated text, as well as scientific/technical material. In addition, she specializes in projects concerning spirituality, ecology, Native American Indian culture, psychology, allopathic and complementary medicine, and health, and she particularly enjoys working with& fantasy, science fiction, historical, romance, adventure, mystery, and young adult literature.

Deanna spent more than a decade as a magazine editor. She also taught at California State University for a dozen years, has written several children's textbooks, and is an award-winning author of short fiction and poetry. Her many happy clients greatly appreciate her expertise, gentle guidance, and ability to preserve their individual voices and help make their manuscripts shine.

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Jeannette Cezan has been successfully promoting businesses and other organizations for over twenty years, from creating Web sites to creating copy for start-ups to writing scripts for commercial video presentations. She is creative and persuasive with brochures, flyers, and other public relations and marketing materials for both profit and nonprofit agencies, and specializes in fine detail and fast turnaround. She does research, fact-checking, and copywriting, Web content and design, and all phases of editing, from light touchups to complete rewrites. She also does technical writing and technical editing on Windows, UNIX, and Macintosh platforms. She has worked with clients as diverse as Harvard University, Barnes & Noble, and IBM.

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Suzanne Manness is a college professor specializing in technical and business writing. She has written and edited technical manuals, informational brochures, business proposals, and grants. She has also written computer user manuals and technical instrumentation directions. Additionally, she has edited many medical textbooks and medical articles on such subjects as heart transplants, pain management, and anesthesiology.

She is an expert in all documentation systems such as Chicago Style, Harvard, APA, American Anthropological Association, and MLA. Her specialty is taking complex material and translating that material into a clear, concise, audience-friendly document.

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Holly Monty, M.A.Ling., M.A.Comm., is a proven APA and Chicago style expert and has been a professional editor and writer for 10 years, 5 of those in a full-time freelance capacity. She specializes in academic manuscripts (journal articles and theses) and in whole-book preparation for publication (from content through copyediting and formatting), whether the manuscript is being submitted to publishers or self-published.

Since operating as a freelance editor and writer, Ms. Monty, a Microsoft Word expert, has worked on books and articles published by many of the world's leading publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, MIT Press, John Wiley, Springer, Lawrence Erlbaum, Pearson-Prentice Hall, Berg, Macmillan, Berkshire, American Geophysical Union, Praeger, Greenwood, Blackwell, Elsevier, Sage, Begell House, Teacher Ideas Press, Libraries Unlimited, UTH Zürich, RAND Corporation, PRMIA, Self-Improvement Online, and other top names in academic and nonfiction publishing. To date, she has edited over 1,000 published journal articles, 90 nonfiction books, and a wealth of dissertations and theses.

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Nancy Rosenbaum specializes in writing, proofreading, fact-checking, and editing of business and technical documentation. She has more than 20 years of experience writing and editing technical documentation for industries ranging from computer hardware and software to banking and finance, environmental engineering and heavy/highway construction, pharmaceuticals, consulting, biometrics, and security. Her work has included client-facing materials such as proposals, multi-volume permit applications, user guides, release notes, and marketing copy to internal materials such as functional specifications, test plans with use cases, and progress reports. Nancy has also edited articles on topics including clean technologies, business and marketing, computer science and learning, industrial technology, and other subjects for journals and symposia such as World Congress on Computer Science; Educause Quarterly; IEEE national and international conferences, workshops, and journals; Journal of Computer Security; Journal of Industrial Teacher Education; International Journal of Computer Applications; International Journal of Human-Computer Studies; Eastern Economic Journal; and European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.

Nancy earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Mt. Holyoke College and studied technical documentation and business communications at Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"The network's prompt response detailing potential editors allowed our text to be in the hands of an editing professional in no time. The knowledge, professionalism, and editing service offered by Nancy greatly enhanced the content and flow of the textbook. Additionally, Nancy provided comments and insight that went well beyond the service paid, and returned the ~44,000 word textbook within weeks. I highly recommend the network and Nancy."

"I couldn’t have dreamt of receiving the thoroughness of editing, knowledge, and follow through that was provided by Nancy. She caught an error in my reference list that I would never have found. I don’t know how she did it! I am so pleased!"

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Elana Shippen, P.E., is a licensed professional engineer in mechanical engineering with 22 years of experience, including 14 years in the aerospace industry with Boeing Company's commercial airplanes program. She edits scientific and technical material, such as engineering books, design requirement documents, process documents, Request for Proposal (RFP), reference guides, case studies, and academic research papers and journals.

Elana also offers a technical editing course, for those currently working or studying in technical fields. This course provides steps for improving the technical writing style and offers key strategies for enhancing the overall quality of technical communications.

Elana completed the Technical Writing and Editing Certificate Program at the University of Washington in 2001.

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Known for her quick turnaround time and attention to detail, Melissa Simpson specializes in proofreading, copyediting, and APA and MLA styles. In addition to addressing issues of organization, grammar, usage, and style, Melissa has a knack for "tightening up" a document by making sure it is clear and concise. She can also format headings and page numbers and create tables of contents at a client's request and always double-checks that parenthetical references parallel the references/works cited section of a document. She is skilled at ensuring that documents not only comply with the APA or MLA style guides but also with a university-specific guide, if applicable.

Melissa's 10+ years of editing experience is based on a B.A. in English from Hendrix College, where she graduated summa cum laude with distinction, and an M.A. in English from Texas Woman's University. She has also worked as a technical writer and has taught various writing and literature courses on both the high school and college levels for over 15 years in both traditional and online classrooms. Her editing work includes numerous proposals, textbooks, dissertations, theses, academic papers, technical documents, and journal articles on a broad range of subjects, including education, psychology, nursing, business, government, speech pathology, literature, philosophy, economics, and art. She is skilled at meeting the needs of ESL students as well.

An accomplished writer herself, Melissa has published many articles and a biography of Southern author Flannery O'Connor. She is currently a community editor with Little Rock Family magazine, an award-winning magazine for families in central Arkansas.

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APA Style: Common Mistakes by Melissa Simpson

APA Style: Italics and Underlining by Melissa Simpson

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Barbara von Diether has an Ed.D. from Brigham Young University and was the graduate research and writing coordinator at Utah State University for 12 years. She counseled over 300 students a year who were seeking help with the graduate process, and published a Publication Guide for Graduate Students (Utah State University Press, 1980).

She was the final editorial review for theses and dissertations from 54 departments. She has an M.Ed. from Utah State University in education technology. President of the Utah Conference of the American Association of University Professors, she met with the Board of Regents and college and university presidents to resolve faculty conflicts. She wrote grants for research funding that supported graduate students.

"You were absolutely correct!! My advisor accepted my proposal after I incorporated your changes and recommendations and it is now in the hands of my committee. When I finish Chapters 4 and 5, I will contact you – I very much appreciate your guidance and counsel. It changed a frustrating situation into a success!"

"I did it! I passed! It was an unconditional pass from all faculty members!  The head of my department said it was one of the top 3 defenses he has ever seen and probably one of the most professional presentations ever... and he has been doing this for over 20 years!!!  Talk about feeling good!!!! I am so very happy!!!"

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