James Baron | Environment, Science & Engineering Editor
Based in the UK with clients worldwide đ
- [email protected]
- Website
- www.technicalix.co.uk
- Organisation
- Technicalix
- Job title
- Copyeditor | Proofreader | Copywriter
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About James
copyediting | proofreading | copywriting
Specialising in corporate and academic material, particularly the environment, science and engineering, for clients all over the world.
Chartered Environmentalist, Full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), and Professional Member of the CIEP.
How I can help you
I can provide editing and proofreading support for your writing, including:
- manuscripts
- corporate documents
- academic papers
- blogs
- web content
- articles and features
- case studies
- press releases.
The service can be tailored according to your requirements but it usually includes:
- identifying corrections to spelling, grammar and punctuation
- rephrasing to improve the flow of a sentence
- ensuring consistency throughout (e.g. style, capitalisation, hyphenation)
- correcting any formatting, spacing or layout issues
- checking page numbers, captions, headings, references, web links and the table of contents.
In most cases, Iâll show my suggested changes using Microsoft Wordâs âTrack Changesâ function or Adobe Acrobatâs commenting tools.
Having gained over 25 yearsâ experience working in the public and private sectors, I'm very comfortable handling all sorts of technical and business language, data, tables and spreadsheets. This experience has covered several industries, ranging from the environment and engineering, to IT and financial services.
Subject areas covered
I offer a service for most subjects, although I specialise in science and engineering with particular expertise in environmental matters.
Iâve also edited text ranging from philosophy and linguistics, to Indian cinema and public health. In other words, if youâre working in the following areas, I can probably help you:
- environment
- science
- engineering
- humanities
- manufacturing
- construction
- agriculture/forestry
- business
- transport
- health
- retail
- education
- leisure and tourism
- IT/communications.
Testimonials
âCalling James a proofreader does not do him full justice. To be sure, he attended to my highly specialized philosophy book with rare precision and sensitivity. Not only did he catch my errors, but he also made me sound better! I would prefer to call him a collaborator of unequalled expertise. Further, he completed his work ahead of schedule, and substantially lowered our agreed-upon fee as a result. I recommend him enthusiastically and unequivocally.â
â Dr. Bernard Freydberg, USA
âNow that my book-editing project is completed I want to thank you for your excellent work on it. You struck just the right balance between making corrections and spotting textual issues. And you accomplished this work with exemplary promptness and efficiency. I would be glad to come to you again with this sort of project.â
â Dr. Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh, USA
âJames is a true professional; he is conscientious, meticulous, timely, congenial, and very easy to work with. He gave a veracious outline of the editing/proofreading process itself and delivered on all counts. He also navigated the manuscript, a non-fiction book dealing with a very specialized topic, with sensitivity and exceptional aplomb. His services are also, in my opinion, very affordable. I would highly recommend James.â
â Paul Kiritsis, PsyD
Next steps
Please contact me at [email protected] for a quote or to discuss how I can help you with your writing. For further information, including more testimonials from clients, please visit www.technicalix.co.uk.
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