Mrs Caroline Short

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I am a qualified and experienced (native English) copy-editor and proofreader, with a sound commercial background, specialising in corporate literature and business documents to support businesses and commercial managers improve all their written documentation to maximise professional impact and competitive edge.

Combining my business degree and commercial experience with my extensive experience in creating, using, editing and proofreading a wide range of business and corporate documents, I provide a specialist skill-set for supporting businesses and commercial managers to produce impeccable documentation.

Media

Academic business text books; financial and business reports, corporate literature, business plans, manuals, tenders/bids, PPT slide decks, marketing and promotional materials; multi-author academic texts; theses and dissertations; education journals

Experience

Freelance since 2011 (part-time)

Exective Assistant, CM Consulting Limited - current

Executive Assistant, Mark Rowley Consulting, from 2019 

Administration Officer, Loveshaw Europe, 2017 - 2019

Clients

CM Consulting Limited:

Detailed proofread and corrections to the report and recommendations to client following intensive opertional review

Seidr Limited:

Substantive proof-edit and corrections to a paper on Decision Making

Exacta Translations AB:

Detailed proofread and corrections, and editorial suggestions and notes to a 125-page Due Diligence Questionnaire for an investment vehicle

Detailed proofread and correction of two Annual Financial Reports

Cengage Learning:

Proofreading Business Decision Making Semester 1 Coursebook

Editing Business Decision Making Semester 2 Coursebook

Ongoing editorial support (development editing; copy editing; proof checks) for Business Decision Making Semester 2

Business Decision Making Semester 3: Preparation of Glossary

Seidr Limited:

Editing and proofreading technical training course content and slide deck

Mark Rowley Consulting - in-house projects: 

Proof-edit of various texts for newspaper columns prior to submission

Proof-edit formal correspondence

Edit and proofread NDAs

Proof-edit major report

Edit multi-author evidence based reports into a seamless flowing document

Edit OneNote notes into PPT slide decks; proofread for final versions

Hagalaz Ltd - in-house projects:

Substantive editing to funding bids; proofread and correct for final versions
Substantive editing to company profile and key personnel profiles
Proof-edit various documents

Loveshaw Europe - in-house projects:

Proofreading and corrections to Health and Safety Manual
Proofreading and corrections to Employee Handbook
Substantive editing and re-working of company’s SafeContractor submissions and reporting templates
Proofreading and corrections to all marketing materials and web content for re-branding exercise

Subjects

Academic textbooks: Business Decision Making

Business & Management:  marketing; construction; built environment; housing; planning; finance and business plans; tenders; bids; structural engineering; corporate literature; Health and Safety; training materials; employee manuals; technical manuals; manufacturing; packaging and packing machinery;

Qualifications

BA Business Studies

Diploma in Copy-Editing and Proofreading, London School of Publishing.

testimonials

Caroline displays an almost forensic skill with spotting errors and typos, and inconsistencies in formatting. Her editing comments, and suggestions for improving the text, are always helpful, and demonstrate that she has taken the trouble to understand the subject matter. I have no hesitation in recommending her.

MR

Caroline’s work for Winchester University Press has been diligent, accurate and timely. Her work is always of the highest quality, and completed promptly. I strongly recommend her.

Professor Chris Mulvey, Managing Editor, WUP

Caroline’s copy-editing and proofreading work for the English Project has always been carried out professionally, accurately and efficiently. Her work is always of the highest quality and completed promptly. I recommend her without hesitation.

EP Trustee

Caroline’s proofreading work is always carried out to the highest standard. She brings a very effective pedantic attention to detail to all documents she works on. I recommend her most highly.

DP

• Editor
• Proofreader