Emma Brown | Copyeditor and proofreader
Working remotely from Folkestone, UK
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- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Emma
An experienced, skilled freelance editor and translator, I offer copyediting and proofreading services and translation from French and Spanish into English. I combine creativity with rigour, accuracy and sensitivity to the needs of the target audience.
How I can help ...
Services
- Copyediting
- Proofreading
- Translation from French and Spanish into English
Specialisms
- Educational and academic publishing, with considerable experience in the field of language learning (textbooks for schools, further and higher education and independent adult learning; online self-study and digital resources; academic works)
- Medical texts, particularly patient information and clinical-trial materials
- Fiction, whilst not currently a specialism, is an offering that I am looking to develop further, having had the immense pleasure of proofreading several novels recently
... who I've worked with previously
- Pearson Education (project editor, BBC Active Languages imprint) | Royal College of Psychiatrists (editorial assistant) | Control Risks (editor)
Freelance clients
Busuu | Pearson Education | Newgen | Cambridge University Press | Integra | Hardie Grant Books | Alianza Editorial | PG Online | Integra | Jo Bavington-Jones
"As an author, having a trusted proofreader is crucial. Emma has proofread several of my novels, and her professional and efficient service gives me absolute confidence in my manuscripts before they go for typesetting. I cannot recommend Emma highly enough and, quite frankly, wouldn’t want to work with anyone else!" Jo Bavington-Jones
► Download the professional portfolio below to see the range of publications I've worked on.
... and my qualifications and training
- BA French and Hispanic Studies | MA Specialised Translation
- Trinity Cert-TESOL TEFL qualification
- Publishing Training Centre courses: Digital Editing | Picture Research | Proofreading PDFs | An Editor's Guide to Working with Typesetters | An Editor's Guide to Editing Illustrations
- CIEP courses: Introduction to Fiction Editing
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Disclaimer note
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