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Jenny Magar's Resume
Senior Copy Editor
Elderberry Press

  • Literary Fiction
  • Military History
  • Memoirs
Technical Editor
Provided quality control from RFPs through
all deliverables

Worked in team: project manager,
instructional system designer, subject
matter experts, technical writers, and
developers

Provided all levels of editing: substantive,
developmental, copy, and proofreading,
including text, charts, tables, and graphics
for overall content flow, readability,
grammar, consistency in punctuation,
spelling, statements of fact, formatting,
and adherence to client style

Recast sentences and/or queried authors
politely when encountering passive voice
verbs, lack of parallelism, redundancies,
mixed metaphors, ambivalence, illogical
constructions, and inconsistency in
statements of fact

Provided quality assurance for
computer-based training (CBT), including
checking navigation, links, and text
imported from approved storyboards

Provided technical writing for client
implementation of blended learning
solutions

Acted as project manager for client,
writers, and developers to deliver project
within scope, within budget, and on time

Developed storyboards in PowerPoint,
attachments to CBT in Word, and cost
accounting and bidding tools in Excel

Recruited and managed freelance
developers
DSI, Inc.

  • Manuals
  • Elearning
  • Storyboards
  • Web site
  • RFPs
Provide electronic line editing, ensuring
adherence to Chicago Manual of Style and
Merriam-Webster's with minimal intrusion
to author's work

Mark up manuscripts with coding for
development in InDesign

Develop style sheets listing style and
spelling choices, names, and relevant
chapter and verse in Chicago Manual of
Style used for consistency in manuscript
for author's reference  
Proofreader
Kensington Publishers
New York City

  • Brava Books
  • Zebra Books
  • Dafina Books
  • Kensington Books
  • Citadel Books
  • Pinnacle Imprints
Proofread about two hundred books,
some by New York Times and USA Today
best-selling authors

Compared page proofs to manuscript

Checked formatting, pagination,
end-of-line hyphenation, front matter,
back matter, running heads, and jackets

Checked text for grammar and for
consistency in punctuation, spelling,
statements of fact, and style

Prepared style sheet

Referenced The Chicago Manual of Style,
Merriam-Webster's, and other sources for
checking facts
Copy Editor
Copyedited marketing pieces for city
event: The Texas Natural and Western
Swing Festival

Developed database in Excel for
publication of the Downtown Business
Directory
Education
Texas State University

  • BA in English
  • Minor in Anthropology
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Jenny Magar
Editing Service