- Academic Writing
- Copy Writing
- ESL/ELL
- Résumés and Cover Letters
- Application Essays/Personal Statements
- Business Writing
- Technical Writing
- Web Copy, Marketing, and SEO
- Blog Writing
- Creative Writing
Editing Skills
- Developmental Editing
- Copy Editing
- Proofreading
Citation Styles
- MLA
- APA
- Chicago
- AP
- AMA
- CSE
Fields and Disciplines
- Project Management
- Marketing
- Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
- Public Relations
- Journalism
- Education policy and leadership
- Academic writing, dissertations and theses, and peer-reviewed articles
- STEM
- Medicine
- Psychology and sociology
- History
- Political science
- Theology and religious studies
Research Interests
- Education and Online Learning
- Trauma
- Politics
- International Studies
- Globalization
- Travel
Instructional Design Skills
- Course Design and Development
- Creation of Learning Outcomes
- Assessment and Rubric Creation
- Infographics
- Storyboarding and Scripts
Freelance Rates
| Type of Work | Pace (pages per hour) | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Proofreading | 9–13 pph | $45/hour |
| Editing, light copyediting | 6–10 pph | $55/hour |
| Editing, medium copyediting | 3–6 pph | $65/hour |
| Editing, heavy copyediting | 1–3 pph | $75/hour |
| Editing, developmental | 1–5 pph | $95/hour |
| Writing, any | 1–3 pph | $60/hour |
Service List for Proofreading
Correcting for typos, missing/incorrect punctuation, and inconsistencies in formatting.
Service List for Editing, light copyediting
- Correcting faulty spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
- Correcting incorrect usage.
- Checking cross-references.
- Ensuring consistency in spelling, hyphenation, numerals, fonts, and capitalization.
- Checking for proper sequencing (such as alphabetical order) in lists and other displayed material.
- Recording the first references to figures, tables, and other display elements.
A light copyedit does not involve interventions such as smoothing transitions, changing heads or text to ensure parallel structure.
Service List for Editing, medium copyediting
- Performing all tasks for light copyediting.
- Changing text & headings to achieve parallel structure.
- Flagging inappropriate figures of speech.
- Ensuring that terms are handled consistently.
- Ensuring that previews, summaries, and end-of-chapter questions reflect content.
- Tracking the continuity of plot, setting, and character traits, and querying/marking the discrepancies, in fiction manuscripts.
- Enforcing consistent style and tone in a multi-author manuscript.
- Changing passive voice to active voice, if requested.
Service List for Editing, heavy copyediting
- Performing all tasks for medium copyediting.
- Eliminating wordiness, triteness, and inappropriate jargon.
- Smoothing transitions and moving sentences to improve readability.
- Assigning new levels to heads to achieve logical structure.
- Suggesting—and sometimes implementing, depending on request—additions and deletions, noting them at the sentence and paragraph level.
Service List for Editing, developmental
Providing feedback, modeling, and guidance on higher-order concerns related to the development and organization of a text. This is an in-depth form of writing support during the drafting stages of a text.
Service List for Writing, any
Copywriting and content creation.
Contact Kelsie
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