Katherine Morton | Corporate, Academic, Government, and Nonprofit Editing
- [email protected]
- Website
- www.katherinemorton.ca
- Organisation
- Katherine Morton, Editor
- Job title
- Senior Editor
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Katherine
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I have over thirty years’ experience editing and writing in the corporate, nonprofit, and academic sectors, including structural editing, stylistic editing, copy editing, proofreading, and fact checking. I simplify and clarify materials for audiences. I am experienced with editing materials from multilingual writers.
My editing experience includes large nonprofit government reports, nonprofit and corporate proposals, grant applications, market reports, business plans, strategic plans, operational plans, annual reports, corporate and educational manuals, journal articles, academic/teaching dossiers, textbooks, theses, book chapters, concept notes, policy papers, position papers, newsletters, newspaper articles, magazine articles, press releases, marketing materials, contracts, film subtitles, résumés, and CVs.
I am a fifth-generation Albertan in what we now call Canada. I am a settler descendant from where the Bow and Elbow Rivers meet. The Blackfoot name is Mohkinstsis, which is also called Calgary. But I didn’t stay long. I studied French in Québec and France, taught English in Japan, and completed international MBA studies in Germany, Mexico, and the Philippines. I worked in international development in dozens of countries and travelled to dozens more—70 countries collected so far, with a love of culture, language, and people. I’m based in Toronto, Canada and still globetrotting. I'm a digital nomad and my clients are all over the world.
Contact me for a free consultation: [email protected]
Media
Company literature, tenders/bids, journals, theses and dissertations, educational materials, résumés and CVs, applications, academic dossiers, book chapters, distance-learning materials, grant proposals, government reports, integrated media, manuals, language course materials, magazine articles, loose-leaf, online materials, websites/blogs, newsletters, media/press releases, film subtitles
Recent Training
Editing Certificate Program (Simon Fraser University) 2022
Subjects
Academic, accounting, AI, annual report, application, architecture, article, artificial intelligence, biology, blog, books, business, case study, chapters, charity, ChatGPT, child protection, civil society, clear communication, climate, concept note, conscious language, contract, corporate, curriculum vitae, CV, diversity, dossier, economics, education, evaluation, fact checking, feminist, film subtitles, finance, formatting, gender equality, government, grant, health, humanities, inclusion, industrial psychology, INGO, international development, journal, leadership, magazine, manual, media release, newsletter, newspaper, nonprofit, operations, plain language, policy paper, position paper, press release, proposal, psychology, public sector, report, request for proposal, research, résumé, review, RFP, social science, strategic plan, strategy, thesis, web.
Qualifications and Awards
BA Psychology (English minor)
MBA Business
Editors Canada certified copy editor
Specialised Software
Microsoft 365
Adobe products
PerfectIt
Testimonials
We were faced with an aggressive deadline for a proposal response for a public sector client and had multiple content contributors from around the world. We needed a professional editor to ensure the final submission was of the highest quality and reflected 'one voice'. Katherine jumped in immediately and produced exactly what we were looking for. Katherine is an amazing communicator and editor with strong attention to detail and a keen eye.
Chantal Milloy, Co-founder & COO at Levvel
I approached Katherine to do the English editing on a journal article for publication. She was fast and concise in her edits, which was crucial because English editing was a requirement for acceptance of the article. I appreciated her work and asked her to do the English editing on another article for a different journal. Again, her work was top quality and crucial for publication. I would be pleased to continue working with Katherine and by all means I would recommend her to everyone who needs excellent editing!
Bosiljka Djikanovic Tetikovic, Professor at University of Belgrade
Katherine was responsible for overall design and final editing of major donor reports. She worked with Canadian-based colleagues, as well as local partners in about a dozen countries, to create succinct, comprehensive documents, consistent across style, syntax, and grammar. Her editing and writing skills are second-to-none. Our government donors and partners continuously remarked on the quality and comprehensiveness of the reports that Katherine produced.
Steve Mason, Regional Director, North America at Aga Khan Foundation Canada
I approached Katherine to help me with my academic dossier. My timeline was short, I was still working on documents, and I needed everything copy edited and formatted professionally into one document. Katherine worked closely with me, providing advice on the content and structure of my dossier, copy editing over 80 pages of content, quickly querying issues to ensure accuracy and consistency, and providing me with a completed, professionally edited, and professionally formatted document in time to reach my deadline. I highly recommend Katherine’s academic editing services.
Dr. Phani Radhakrishnan PhD., Associate Professor at University of Toronto
I had to quickly create a CV for a board position. A long-term employee, I hadn’t created a CV in many years so had to start from scratch. Katherine came to the rescue, quickly streamlining my CV, making it succinct and concise. She also edited my cover letter, suggesting structural changes, removing repetition, and cleaning up language so that it was clear and professional. I highly recommend Katherine’s editing services.
Rachel Kimber, Director of Business Operations at Kaplan International Pathways
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