Lisa Robertson | Editwrite: Professional proofreading, plain English and business writing
- Website
- https://www.editwrite.co.uk/
- Organisation
- Editwrite
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Lisa
I help businesses and individuals to create clear, consistent and accurate text. Whether it’s proofreading, plain English services or business writing you’re looking for, I will tailor my services to your needs, your purpose and your readers.
>> Get in touch for a no-commitment estimate
>> Read more about my approach to clear, consistent and accurate text
Proofreading
Need a fresh pair of eyes to help polish your document?
My proofreading service will give you peace of mind.
- Markup using Track Changes in Word or PDF Comments
- Clear queries if I need to pass decisions back to you
- Able to work to your style guide if you have one
- How much I intervene is up to you – not limited to a traditional definition of proofreading
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Plain English
Need to cut through woolly words to create a clear message?
Together, we can make your words do the hard work so your readers don't have to.
- Straightforward, clear, jargon-free language
- Helping your readers to find, understand and use what you want to tell them
- In Word, writing from scratch or editing/summarising something you have already written
- Contributing to your user testing and quality assurance process for online content
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Business writing
Need help getting started with your document?
I can bring a fresh perspective to your text, making sure it is well structured, accurate and understood by your intended readers.
- Combining my editorial training with my years of experience writing public sector documents
- Writing on your behalf and under your guidance, and the document remains yours at all times
>> Find out more about my business writing services
Recent projects
I pride myself on offering a professional and friendly service and love working with my clients to understand exactly what they and their readers need. I have a number of clients that I have a great relationship with and work for regularly:
- Proofreading assessment materials for a global company whose clients are large corporate organisations
- Proofreading a monthly membership magazine for a professional body within the health sector
- Proofreading business plans and pitches for a company that supports start-ups looking for investment
- Proofreading student reports for an independent senior school
- Proofreading 'starting school' picture books and information booklets that are personalised for individual schools
- Various work for a public sector consultancy firm, including copywriting for their website and marketing materials, writing analysis and review documents, and presenting data in an accessible and consistent format
Here are some of the other projects I've worked on in recent years:
- Writing, editing and proofreading resources for children, young people, families and professionals, for a health sector charity
- Writing a strategy document for a young people's charity, being led by input from young people
- Contributing to projects as a text expert, for a health applications company
- Writing local authority strategy documents and needs assessments
- Proofreading/editing articles and website text for various small businesses and individuals
- Streamlining a charity's guidelines into one plain language document
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Editorial training and development
- Professional Member of the CIEP: Passed CIEP basic editorial test (88%) as part of demonstrating professional competence (2022)
- Accreditation from the Publishing Training Centre (PTC): Basic proofreading (version 5) by distance learning, awarded with Merit (2017)
- Training with the CIEP (and its predecessor, the Society for Editors and Proofreaders): P1: Introduction to proofreading (2015); Brush up your grammar (2015); CE1: Introduction to copy-editing (2015); Editing with Word (2016); Web editing (2018); Plain English for editors (2022); Health Editing (2024)
- CIEP conferences: Attended as an online delegate in 2020, 2022 and 2023
- Training with the Plain English Campaign: Plain English reports (2015); Plain English design (2015); Plain English writing for websites (2015)
- E-learning modules with the PTC: Introduction to publishing (2021); Adobe tools for editors (2021); Copyright essentials (2021); Editing references (2021)
Previous experience
- Nearly 15 years in the public sector
- Planning, performance and commissioning roles
- Children's services, health, education and social care
- Extensive experience with internal and public-facing documents, including plans, strategies and tenders/bids
>> Read more about my background on LinkedIn
Testimonials
"Lisa has been fantastic at proofreading a multitude of our assessments, helping us to ensure that the quality of any content meets our high standards for language, grammar, punctuation and more. She is adaptable and has worked with various different types of multimedia, from text to video-based content. She is great to work with – always quick to respond to requests and she tries wherever possible to move things around to accommodate sometimes changing requirements. Thanks for your support, Lisa."
Joel Ockwell, Managing Psychologist, Cappfinity
"I'm blown away by what you have picked up. Your review has given me so much confidence in our publications and I can't thank you enough for being so thorough and detailed! You are brilliant, Lisa – thank you!"
Leena O'Hara, Programme Manager, The Aplastic Anaemia Trust
"Thanks for all your help making our new guidelines so much easier to read and digest. Your work took our rambling thoughts and tidied them beautifully into headings and bullet points in a way we just couldn't have done without you. THANK YOU!"
Alex Smith, on behalf of NCT Warwickshire Central
"As a management consultancy supporting public sector clients with transformation of children's services, we have been working with Lisa at Editwrite since late 2017 on a range of projects. Lisa has supported us with data analysis, benchmarking, compiling reports, copywriting and proofreading and has made a strong contribution to the services we offer our clients. Now a valuable member of our associate team, her professional capabilities and personable approach mean her work is delivered on time, in a structured and organised manner. By using her exceptional writing skills and her keen eye for detail, her work always fits or exceeds our original brief."
Jonathan Wilding, Director & Consultant, FWL & Associates
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The CIEP Directory of Editorial Services should be considered a point of first contact and prospective clients must satisfy themselves that members are capable of the work on offer. The Institute cannot be held responsible for the quality of work provided by any member listed in the directory. The members themselves are responsible for the maintenance and accuracy of their entries in the Directory and the CIEP has not made any attempt to vet them. The institute cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies in the Directory. Inclusion in the Directory as a freelance does not necessarily mean that the member is self-employed as defined by HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions.
