Mrs Laurie Duboucheix-Saunders
- Organisation
- LDS Editorial Services
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Laurie
Profile
Experienced freelance proofreader, copyeditor and translator (French and English)
Meticulous with details
Adaptable, self-disciplined and reliable
Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
Member of the Translators Association (part of The Society of Authors)
Subjects
French and Francophone Studies
French as a Foreign Language
French GCSE and A-level and French IB
Education and Teaching
Literature Studies
Theatre Studies
Fiction
Humanities
Eighteenth-Century Studies (Enlightenment)
Critical Thinking and Philosophy
Development Studies
Women's Studies
Disability
Clients
Primary and Secondary Education
Oxford University Press
Oriel Square Limited
Educational Company of Ireland (Edco)
Scholastic – Mary Glasgow Magazines
Hodder Education
John Murray Learning
Cambridge University Press
Pearson
Collins Learning
Palgrave Macmillan
Higher Education
Institute of Development Studies
The Open University on FutureLearn
Young Lives
Voltaire Foundation
Routledge
Psychology Press
Trade and Fiction
Gera Solutions Ltd
whitefox
Scholastic – Chicken House
I also work with private/non-publisher clients.
Training
- International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School (British Centre for Literary Translation, 17–22 July 2022)
- Bristol Translates Literary Translation Summer School – French (University of Bristol, 4–8 July 2022)
- Switching to Fiction (Louise Harmby, December 2021)
- Efficient Editing: Strategies and Tactics (CIEP, February 2021)
- Various workshops and seminars at SfEP annual conferences 2009-2022
- Editing for Fiction (SfEP professional development day, June 2016)
- Project Management (SfEP, January 2015)
- Onscreen Copyediting II (SfEP, July 2014)
- Onscreen Copyediting I (SfEP, June 2013)
- Professional Copyediting (SfEP, February 2013)
- Problems with Proofreading (SfEP, June 2010)
- Introduction to Copyediting (SfEP, May 2010)
- Introduction to Proofreading (SfEP, February 2009)
- Rights Selling (Publishing Training Centre, October 2008)
Qualifications
Master II recherches/MPhil in English (Mention Très Bien/First) - Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Maîtrise d’Anglais/MA in English (Mention Bien/2.1) - Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Licence d’Anglais/BA in English and Licence de Lettres Modernes/BA in French - Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Citation styles
APA
Chicago
Harvard
MHRA
MLA
Oxford
I am willing to work with other citation styles too.
Testimonials
I am happy to recommend Laurie. She was professional and thorough as we worked together on a dual language French/English Art eBook with a range of content from pure text to setting out song lyrics and play scripts. Laurie kept in good contact with us as schedules inevitably changed due to the complexity of the content, and this helped ensure that the editorial process ran smoothly.
Alison Norwood, Publishing Manager, Institute of Development Studies
(May 2023)
I thoroughly recommend Laurie as a bilingual French-English proofreader. She recently completed the proofreading of an online course for French language learners. The standard of her work was exceptional - she not only spotted errors but made helpful suggestions as regards improvements. She has a keen eye for consistency issues and set out all her recommendations clearly. Throughout the entire project, communication with Laurie was very smooth as she was highly responsive, friendly and accommodating.
Eleanor Moore, Senior Learning Developer, The Open University on FutureLearn
(November 2022)
Laurie is a conscientious and meticulous proofreader - she took the time to make sure everything was done to a high standard and thought carefully about solutions.
Keira Moulding, Research and Communications Editor at Oriel Square Limited
(November 2020)
Laurie is an excellent and meticulous French proofreader and I have no hesitation endorsing her skills, she is a key member of our French Magazine team at Mary Glasgow Magazines, delivering teen language magazines.
Nicolle Thomas, Creative Manager at Scholastic
(April 2020)
I worked with Laurie on a French language school textbook for Irish students doing their Transition Year entitled Revue. I found her to be an excellent editor – meticulous, conscientious, hard-working and patient! It was a pleasure to work with her and I would highly recommend her.
Julie O’Shea, Project Editor, The Educational Company of Ireland
(March 2020)
I have known Laurie for some years and frequently noted her determination, reliability and readiness to take on challenging work, so she was the obvious choice when I needed a dissertation to be checked. She was, as I expected, frankly, meticulous and thorough, several times checking back with me to ensure that the citations, always my bugbear, were fully correct and properly formatted. She is perceptive and thoughtful in her approach to her work, fully bilingual in English and French, and an absolute pleasure to work with. Many thanks for all her support.
Gillian M Othen MA (Warwick), 'Outside the “Continuous Tradition”: Shakespeare in North Midland Civic Theatres in the 1966-67 season,' for the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
(January 2019)
I worked with Laurie over many years whilst at the Voltaire Foundation, specifically in relation to the series ‘Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment’. Laurie consistently copy-edited and proofread manuscripts and texts to an extremely high standard; she has a keen eye for detail in both English and French, is very clear in her queries, and can swiftly interpret and implement complex house styles. I was very satisfied with Laurie’s work.
Lyn Roberts, previously Senior Publishing Manager, Voltaire Foundation, now Senior Managing Editor, Lion Hudson Ltd
(September 2018)
Laurie is a thorough and conscientious proofreader with great communication skills who works well to deadlines.
Sarah (MacBean) Green, previously Senior Commissioning Editor at Hodder Education, now Freelance Publisher and Project Manager
(September 2011)
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