Proofreading
Braidwood Commissions of Inquiry
Phase 1 report: Braidwood Commission on conducted energy weapon usage
Phase 2 report: Braidwood Commission on the death of Robert Dziekanski
Proofread high-profile reports of a provincial commission in strict confidence. I looked for typos; formatting issues; and spelling, grammar, punctuation, and numbers. The reports were complex and contained elements requiring special treatment, such as tables, appendices with legal rulings, footnotes, and reference lists.
Davies Commission
Interim report: Inquiry into the death of Frank Paul
Final report: Inquiry into the response of the Criminal Justice Branch
Proofread high-profile reports of a provincial commission in strict confidence. I looked for typos; formatting issues; and spelling, grammar, punctuation, and numbers. The reports were complex and contained elements requiring special treatment, such as tables, appendices with legal rulings, footnotes, and reference lists.
Provincial Court of British Columbia
2009-2010 Annual Report
Ensured the report was free of typos and other errors, and that capitalization, italics, and special legal and corporate terms were correct and consistent throughout.
FortisBC
Renaming and rebranding Terasen Gas to FortisBC
I helped update FortisBC’s many web pages, brochures, information sheets, forms, and other marketing collateral for the name change. I marked incidences of the company name for correction, as well as updating other essential customer information, from phone numbers and email addresses to prices and programs.
Blake-Jarrett & Co. (for Coca-Cola)
Concession menus for Vancouver 2010 Olympic venues and Live Sites
Ensured prices, menu items, translations, and logos were correct and consistent. There were multiple concessions at almost all venues, and each concession had at least three menu formats, so there were hundreds in all. And each menu had to be error-free and ready for installation by the strict deadline of the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.
Copy editing
alive magazine
Copy edit articles and recipes for monthly natural health magazine. Topics include food, fitness, environment, medicine, and supplements. I provide a pair of “fresh eyes” to the material, which is previously edited by the magazine’s staff editors, and ensure consistency with alive’s house style guide.
Christine is the go-to copy editor for alive magazine, Canada’s favourite natural health and wellness publication with over 500,000 readers each month. Copy editing alive is a complicated task with some very specific style requirements. Without fail, Christine provides excellent work—on time and on budget. She’s a professional resource I know I can always count on.
— Stuart Harries, Editor-in-Chief, alive magazine
How to Survive the Next Recession
by Sean Campbell and Dag Hornby (Pseudo Experts Press, 2011)
Help self-publishing authors to polish their book. Copy edited manuscript for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Also helped improve sentence structure (voice, tense, wordiness), smoothed differences in voice between two co-authors, and also did light fact-checking. This is a humour book, so I edited with sensitivity to the funny.
Schools of the Boundary
by Sue Dahlo and Alice Glanville (BC Genealogical Society, 2010)
I copy edited the text, which had been compiled and revised over many years, and suggested deletions of some repetitive passages. I also reformatted the book in Microsoft Word: creating a document template and paragraph styles, converting “typewriter convention” tables (i.e., tabs and spaces) into real tables, resizing images, and adding section breaks and page numbering. I also converted the final Word file to PDF for distribution and printing.
Self-Counsel Press
Copy edited various books for this publisher specializing in legal and business books for the layperson.
At Self-Counsel Press, editorial interns are sometimes called on to do more than proofreading and copy editing. Christine was asked to update the text for a new edition of Start and Run a Coffee Bar Business. We were pleased both with her research skills and her ability to write original copy in a timely manner.
— Barbara Kuhne, Senior Editor (former), Self-Counsel Press
