Professional Editing Services
I offer in-depth editing to achieve clarity in written and spoken presentations. Most often I accept contracts as a copy editor, technical editor, or ESL editor for professional clients who must produce work in excellent English but do not have English as a native language. I am able to work with a wide range of specialist and technical vocabularies. I work in both British and American styles. Fields of study and interest include engineering, alternative energy, psychology, semiotics, consciousness studies, and literature.
Ian le Cheminant, Cortes Island, BC.
Technical Editing
2012: Developmental editor for Taking Measure, Explorations in Number, Architecture, and Consciousness; SIPS Productions Inc, 2012. The material is interdisciplinary, moderately technical. The publication title was my recommendation. The book is available here.
SIPS Productions Inc, 2012
2012: Technical editor for AutoCAD 2013 Essentials; Wiley, 2012.
A Sybex/Wiley Imprint. Work Performed on contract to Wiley.
2011: Technical editor for AutoCAD 2012 Essentials; Wiley, 2011.
2010-11: Technical editor for Enhancing Architectural Drawings and Models with Photoshop; Wiley, December 2010.
Another Sybex/Wiley project.
2010: Substantive and stylistic editor of the script for a three hour documentary video on symbolic programming in art, architecture and urban design. The project required working closely with the author to define the audience and establish an appropriate tone. The work can be streamed online at http://www.secretsinplainsight.com/
ESL Technical Editing
Below is an English language edit on highly technical material - a paper in mathematical physics. The author is Romanian. My job was not to understand the mathematics but to clarify the meaning by deep line editing for syntax and grammar.
Lucian's paper can be downloaded as a Word file here.
Creative Writing
Visit my personal website at ianlecheminant.ca