Dr Michael Janes
- [email protected]
- Phone
- 020 8518 0722
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Michael
Media
Books, dictionaries, distance-learning materials, educational materials, encyclopaedias, manuals, phrasebooks
Equipment and software
Computer(s): PC; printer(s): colour (600dpi); CD, DVD; photocopier, scanner; word processing, spreadsheets, databases, web page authoring, graphics, antivirus
Qualifications and awards
BA French with Spanish, MA French, Doctorat de 3e cycle (Linguistics), Institute of Linguists Student III Examination (Spanish), Teacher Trainer Diploma in IT (Joint Examining Board), Integrated Business Technology Stage 3 (OCR)
Experience
Former Managing Editor of French Dictionaries, Harrap; Former Senior Lexicographer on the Collins-Robert French Dictionary
Training
Learndirect Module 16 (online mentoring and tutoring course) 2002
Clients
Oxford University Press, Schofield & Sims, Cambridge University Press, Nelson Thornes, Orion, Jolly Learning, Edward Elgar Publishing
Subjects
Business/business studies, children's/teenage publishing (reference), computer technology/software/hardware, education (further/higher/tertiary, open learning), English language (grammar/syntax, usage), information science and technology (general, spreadsheets), Internet, languages other than English (French, Spanish), lexicography, linguistics (general, phonetics), tourism/travel
Featured
Experienced lexicographer, copy-editor/proofreader (reference, literature, coursebooks) and writer of plain English computer courseware. I have compiled many English, French and Spanish dictionaries as author or contributor. Winner of the 2003 English-speaking Union Duke of Edinburgh book award (for compiling the Jolly Learning English Children's Dictionary). Author of the Schofield & Sims Complete Primary Dictionary.
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