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I like writing ! My experience is listed here.
I find I am able to take the position of a new reader, and ask
the right questions of the text from that perspective. There are
several types of writing service I can offer:-
Major Re-writes.
I especially enjoy taking 'something with potential' that the
author can't see or doesn't have time to extract, and re-organising
the text. I particularly enjoyed doing "Hot Water from the
Sun", where I took experimental data for solar panels using
an 'artificial sun' and re-organised the information and made
it 'user-friendly' so that technicians in the developing countries
could use it to build solar panels.
Editing and Text Correction
I am also very happy to edit material produced by others, whether
as a final 'tidy-up' or as a deep revision. A lot of my work has
been on texts produced in English by non-native speakers, where
there have sometimes been major problems which have needed rectifying.
Translation
My German is very good, my French is improving, and I am an experienced
translator (but only INTO English). Translating is quite hard
work for me, but if a project comes along and I have the time,
I could be interested in it.
Topics
The topics of my previous work have ranged from technology for
development to botany, environmental issues to 'nature spirits'
and a current project if on education research, plus the many
topics you find on this site. If you are writing a specialist
book for a specialist audience, then I probably cannot help much;
but if you are writing it for student or non-specialist readers,
then I think I can deal with any subject ! Ask me ! (send a sample)
(though, having written that, there may be better people for 'high'
literature and poetry, but, I am writing my own stories, and I
would be glad to look at someone else's work).
Terms. I need to make a living !! If I wanted to work
for nothing, I would rather write my own original material.
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