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"If you're just operating by habit, then you're not really living…Every action of ours should be a prayer—a sacrament in the world." - My Dinner with Andre (1981)
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Copy Editing

"You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke."

-Arthur Plotnik

My copy editing experience has included assisting a professor with copy editing a book he collaborated on, 9/11 and the Academy: Responses in the Liberal Arts and the 21st Century World, copy editing a professor's dissertation, copy editing grant applications submitted by The Lincoln Theatre (Marion, Va.), being the copy editor for two years (Fall 2018–Spring 2020) for Emory & Henry College's student-run newspaper, The Whitetopper, peer reviewing students' work, and serving as a supplemental instructor for an entry journalism class at Emory & Henry College that focuses on writing, reporting and editing (Spring 2020) .

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9/11 and the Academy: Responses in the Liberal Arts and the 21st Century World

Palgrave Macmillan/Spring Link: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030164188

I helped copy edit different chapters in this book,

along with helping to create a list of keywords (SEO) for

Palgrave Macmillan to use so that this book would generate in a search when keywords were entered into a book, research or library database.

Photo source: Springer Link

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Photo source: The Whitetopper

The Whitetopper

The Whitetopper website (current): https://whitetopper.com/

*stories archived from Fall 2020 to present

The Whitetopper website (former): https://whitetopper.weebly.com/

*stories archived from Spring 2019 to Spring 2020

I served as Copy Editor from Fall 2018–Spring 2020. In addition to proofing stories, I provided constructive feedback for students to become stronger, more credible news writers.

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