Mr Andrew Coulson | STEM Editor and Proofreader
West Yorkshire
- Phone
- 07834269850
- Website
- http://www.RyburnTextWorks.co.uk
- Organisation
- Ryburn Textworks
- Job title
- Freelance copy editor, development editor and proofreader
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Andrew
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Technical accuracy in STEM publishing is non-negotiable. I bridge the gap between complex engineering concepts and clear, instructional or informative text. I specialise in editing STEM subjects (science, technology (particularly computer science and telecoms), engineering and maths) whether text books, books, educational material, business reports, online material, magazine articles or academic papers. I have over a decade of experience of working on GCSE and A-level educational textbooks, industry training material, academic papers and other material aimed at industry.
Prior to this I worked for 12 years as an engineering project manager working with complex electronic systems in buildings and on the road network. This involved managing complex timelines with attention to technical detail and with clear stakeholder communication. I have also worked as a primary teacher giving me a clear understanding of both the curriculum content and understand the learner's journey.
I am happy working in different formats and have experience of Markdown, XML, HTML/CSS and LaTeX. I am skilled at working with PDFs and in Microsoft Word to create manuscripts that typesetters can produce clean proofs from. I can work with Word styles or tagging to do this.
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; Just Content; 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
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