Andrew Coulson (RyburnTextWorks Ltd)
Professional Member| Location | Ryburn TextWorks, Mill Bank, SOWERBY BRIDGE HX6 3DY |
| Telephone | 01422 825 620 |
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| Website | www.RyburnTextWorks.co.uk |
| Andrew Coulson |
I specialise in editing STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) whether text books, books, educational material, online material, magazine articles or academic papers. I have over 11 years experience of working on GCSE and A-level educational textbooks, industry training material, academic papers and other material aimed at industry.
Prior to this worked for 12 years as an engineering project manager working with complex electronic systems in buildings and on the roads and also worked as a primary teacher. This has given me strong organisational skills and an understanding of the UK curriculum.
I am happy working in different formats and have experience of XML, HTML/CSS and LaTeX. I am skilled at working with Microsoft Word to create manuscripts that typesetters can produce clean proofs from. I can work with Word styles or tagging to do this.
Skills
Copy-editing, on-screen editing, mark-up languages, writing, on-screen proofreading, proofreading, project management, development editing, LaTeX, XML, HTML, CSS, ebooks, PDF mark up, project management
Media
Text books, books, journals, magazines, educational materials, online materials, PowerPoint, websites
Experience
Freelance editor and proofreader since 2013. Qualified Primary teacher and 12 years experience in engineering project management.
Subjects
Children's/teenage publishing (educational, science), education (e-learning, information science and technology, National Curriculum, numeracy, primary), engineering (electronic, telecommunications), information science and technology (computer technology/software/hardware, internet), physics (electricity/magnetism, school), sciences (academic, history of, popular, school, scientific writing, technology)
Clients
Hodder Education; Royal Academy of Engineering; Arm; Haremi; EMC; Newgen; Cambridge University Press; Rising Stars; Thomson Reuters, Copernicus GmbH, Oxford University Press
Recent training
Efficient copy-editing (SfEP) 2016; Copy-editing 2: Progress (SfEP) 2015, Proofreading 1: Introduction (SfEP) 2014, Introduction to copy-editing (SfEP) 2013
Qualifications
BEng Communication Engineering, PGCE Primary Education
Specialised software
Word
LaTeX (Texworks/Overleaf),
Calibre ebook editor