Editor/Proofreader at the-freelance-editor and Owner, the-freelance-editor
Orlando, Florida Area
- Current
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- Editor/Ghostwriter/Fact-Checker at the-freelance-editor
- Past
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- Editor at North Carolina Museum of History
- Reference Librarian at Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library
- Education
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- Winter Park Tech
- Manchester College
- Connections
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- Industry
- Writing and Editing
- Websites
Stephen Evans’s Summary
the-freelance-editor provides editorial guidance to clients of all sizes, writers of all levels, projects of all intentions. If you need assistance with word choice, punctuation, grammar, and readability—the elements you want to be perfect for your readers or listeners—contact the-freelance-editor.
As a freelance editor, I'll work with you—the author—to reach your ultimate goals: (1) to say what you want to say to the audience you want to reach and (2) to have your readers concentrate on your message, not your mistakes. I also provide ghostwriting, proofreading, and fact-checking services.
Serving individuals, small business and large corporations (on contract and retainer arrangements), nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. Specializing in getting your intended message to your intended reader.
Stephen Evans’s Specialties:
logical organization of documents (verbal and written); application of Chicago Manual of Style decisions, grammatical rules, and usage decisions to prose constructions; and guiding writers to reveal their true intentions and meanings!
Stephen Evans’s Experience
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Editor/Ghostwriter/Fact-Checker
the-freelance-editor
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 1987 — Present (22 years)
provide editorial guidance, ghostwriting services, and fact-checking services to clients located around the world!
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Editor
North Carolina Museum of History
(Writing and Editing industry)
March 1992 — October 2000 (8 years 8 months)
served as copy editor for general museum publications (promotional and educational), exhibit labels, study guides, and audio-visual scripts; served as project editor for The Tar Heel Junior Historian history magazine
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Reference Librarian
Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Libraries industry)
1976 — 1987 (11 years)
assisted phone-in and walk-in clients in research related to science- and business-related questions; assisted in local history research; compiled and edited monthly new-book newsletter
Stephen Evans’s Education
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Winter Park Tech
no, continuing adult education, 2004 — 2007
- Activities and Societies:
- training in HTML and XHTML coding to aid in refining Web sites for clients, training in Adobe InDesign for print projects
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Manchester College
BA, Education, Journalism, School Media Svcs, 1976 — 1980
worked in Funderburg Library all four years; edited Oak Leaves, the campus newspaper
Additional Information
Stephen Evans’s Websites:
Stephen Evans’s Interests:
ghostwriting, editing, Web site design
Stephen Evans’s Groups:
Editorial Freelancers Association, Association of Personal Historians, Florida Writers Association, SCBWI: The Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, University Club of Winter Park
Stephen Evans’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
