I believe I have the education and experience in writing and editing to satisfy your requirements for editors and proofreaders.<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">I have a master's degree in history from New Mexico State Universisty (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico. To fulfill requirements for graduation, I researched, wrote, edited, and proofread my thesis and papers I'd written for history and English classes. After graduation I moved to Seattle, Washington. After reading the introduction to my thesis, the manager of the Writing and Editing group at The Boeing Company, Seattle,&nbsp;hired me, saying I could be either a writer or an editor. As an editor, depending on the size of a project,&nbsp;I worked alone or with other editors.&nbsp;Often I was a lead and coordinated with the project manager the use of acronyms and phrases unique to the subject matter and ensured that support editors understood how to use them. Subject matter included technical, financial, governing, and test procedure text and graphics.&nbsp;I compiled lists of contents, graphics, and acronyms and edited text, submitted it &nbsp;to word processing&nbsp;for formatting or formatted the text myself,&nbsp;and proofread every page usually several times owing to review cycles. I was flexible concerning&nbsp;my work schedule and sometimes went from one project to the next in the same day.&nbsp;I used the Government Printing Office, University of Chicago, and Associated Press manuals of style or style guides developed by groups I supported.</div>
<br />While working at Boeing, I freelanced as an editor. I worked with an educational group in Eastern Washington&nbsp;to develop information for Native Americans on a reservation. With the same group, I edited and&nbsp;formatted stories meant for grade school students and often researched material to complete or fill out a story. I edited a brochure for a consulting group in Seattle and rewrote&nbsp;text&nbsp;to simplfy it and reduce the number of pages. Also, I&nbsp;edited a book, <em>Young Men Can Sing</em>,&nbsp;that was published.<br /><br />When I&nbsp;attend NMSU, I completed a course in writing short stories for children. At Boeing I&nbsp;took several classes in editing and writing offered by Boeing or by contractors hired by Boeing. From the University of Washington extension branch I took editing and poetry writing classes and a course in project management. I earned certificates for poetry writing and project management.&nbsp;I published several of my poems and was awarded honorable mention and a third-place prize.&nbsp; Recently, I voluntered with the Port Orchard Kitsap Adult Center for Education tutoring students with English as a Second Language. <br /><br />I enjoy writing and editing and have done well at them. I am set up and able to work at home full or part time.