Editing

My editing experience with professional to creative writing is one of the focuses of my portfolio. Listed below are some examples of my editing work.

Editing/Revising an Investigative Report (my own)

Report – Original Report – Revised

 

 

 

In this example, I edited and revised my investigative report, “Technical Communication and Representation of People with Mental Illness.” I expanded the report to include my continued research  in feminist and disability studies. I edited the report in order to give a critical eye to how I, as a technical communicator, represent people with mental illness in this report and also how I represent myself as an ethical technical communicator.

Editing a Thesis

Thesis – Original Thesis – with Edits

In this editing example, I edited part of a thesis for a master of arts in philanthropy and development candidate.  Much like the creative writing editing example, I only had contact with the author through email.  I had to consider the author’s perspective and my own role as the editor as well as the audience of the thesis: a graduate committee and the graduate students that will read the thesis.  This was a largely different audience than the piece of creative writing, and I had to analyze the needs and expectations of this audience in order to edit the text ethically and effectively.

Editing a Television Script

Screenplay – Original Screenplay – with edits

In this editing example, I edited a television script for a pilot of a sitcom.  I kept in contact with the author of the script through email and never met her in person.  While editing the script, I had to constantly consider the perspective of the author, the language I used when communicating with the author, and my role as the editor.  I also had to consider that target audience for the script, and how the author and I balanced her representations of the characters and audience with meeting the expectations and needs of the audience.