Jenny Gwynne

Address
4 Clifton Place, York YO30 6BJ, UK

Services

• Copyediting
• Development editing
• Project management
• Proofreading, both on PDF and on hard copy with BSI markup

Media

• Educational publications, particularly for teaching and learning languages – French, German, Italian; textbooks, workbooks, grammar books, revision and exam-preparation materials, online learning materials, audio scripts, teacher resource packs
• Marketing and communications publishing, particularly university prospectuses, brochures, student guides
• Other general non-fiction

Experience

I have worked continuously for over 30 years on French, German, Italian and TEFL publications for schools and adult education. These projects often involve editing multi-author and multi-component publications, and benefit from proactive teamwork with authors, designers and co-editors. 

I have expertise in editing for higher education: for the University of York, I regularly edit undergraduate and postgraduate prospectuses and annual reports, and proofread reports for research teams and departments. 

I set up a team of freelancers providing proofreading services for Niche Health and Social Care Consulting, proofreading their independent investigations and reviews commissioned by the NHS. 

Before launching my freelance career in 1993, I worked in-house for two London-based publishers.
BBC Languages: as managing editor of the brand-new BBC Languages Unit (in 1992–93), I took books and audio recordings from draft MS through to publication, managing freelance editors and working alongside TV/radio/audio producers. I worked on The French Experience, Italianissimo, German/French/Spanish means business, Turkish/Arabic phrase books and others.
Mary Glasgow Publications: working for this renowned specialist MFL educational publisher (in 1989-92) gave me first-class training and experience of copyediting and the whole production process.

Qualifications and professional membership

• BA (Hons) 1st class French with Italian, University of Leeds
• PGCE secondary MFL teaching, University of Bristol
• Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung (≈ A level German), Goethe-Institute, London
• Membership of ALL (Association of Language Learning)
• Advanced Professional Member of CIEP (Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading)

Clients

• Busuu
• Cambridge University Press
• Folens 
• Haremi
• HarperCollins
• inlingua
• Newgen (formerly Out of House)
• Niche Health and Social Care Consulting
• Oxford University Press
• Pearson Education
• Plantyn
• Rising Stars (Hodder Education)
• The University of York

Training courses

• CIEP Editorial Project Management (May 2021) 
• InDesign basics (Jan 2014)
• SfEP Brush up your grammar (Feb 2007)

Testimonials

I have worked with Jenny on French and German projects for Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, including textbooks, homework books, revision guides and assessment resources. Jenny is an experienced and thoughtful editor, who is undaunted by complicated projects and briefs and always enthusiastic about creating the best possible language-learning resources. I enjoy working with her.
Development editor at an educational publisher

I have worked with Jenny on many of my books. Her professionalism and extreme attention to detail made her the ideal editor for the author in search of peace of mind! I couldn't recommend Jenny enough to publishers and other authors.
Danièle Bourdais, FrenchMatters Ltd
Freelance author, consultant, editor, translator and tutor 

I worked with Jenny on an IB French Workbook project. She was extremely patient and flexible, carrying out a number of tasks from development editing to proofreading and rights+permissions management. Jenny has both a keen eye for detail and the ability to make overarching suggestions that improve the consistency and flow of content.
Dr Catherine Barber
Senior Publisher, International Baccalaureate, Pearson 

• Editor
• Proofreader

• Education & training
• Languages

• Project management