Experience

From public health posters to end-of-life planning apps to accessibility documents to governance bylaws, I have edited nearly every type of document an organization produces. I have also written video scripts, news releases, background documents for new legislation, and online training content.

Making writing clearer gives me joy. With Plain Language Clear and Simple in one hand and Editing Canadian English in the other, I create crisp sentences, even tone, and helpful punctuation.

I create style guides for those who awake in the night to pressing questions like Do we use a comma before “and”? (If you don’t use it, perhaps you should.)

I also teach three online courses—Connecting with Citizens and Other Stakeholders, Editing for Plainer Legal Writing and Editing for Plainer Technical Writing—for the Plain Language Academy. I try to make them useful, interesting, and challenging. Online learning makes them flexible.