Dr Sarah Harrison |
- [email protected]
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Sarah
Media
Books, CD-ROMs/DVDs, integrated media, journals, multi-author books, theses and dissertations
Qualifications and awards
• BA History and Landscape Archaeology, University of East Anglia, 1999
• MA History, local and regional, University of East Anglia, 2000
• PhD History and Landscape Archaeology, University of East Anglia, 2005
Experience
I have been employed full-time as a freelance editor since 2006.
Training
• Introduction to proofreading
• Introduction to proofreading
• Introduction to copy-editing
• Proofreading problems
• Brush up your grammar
• Onscreen editing 1
• Efficient copyediting
• Professional copy-editing (SfEP) 2010
Clients
Archaeology South-East; Boydell and Brewer; Carnegie Publishing; Council for British Archaeology; Council for British Research in the Levant; East Anglian Archaeology; Edward Elgar; European Science Foundation (the ARCANE Project); Hertfordshire University Press; the Institute for Archeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo; Liverpool University Press; Maritime Archaeology Trust; Norfolk Gardens Trust; Pelagic Publishing; Sunrise Setting; Swales & Willis; Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine; students, academics and other private individuals
Subjects
• history (general, British, medieval, early modern/modern, local and regional)
• archaeology (British, Middle Eastern)
• environmental studies, natural history
• English literature and language
• general humanities
• social studies/sociology
• theatre and cinema studies
• architectural studies
• management/business studies
Featured
Trading as The Fair Copy, I provide copy-editing and proofreading services to publishers, non-publishers and individuals. My specialist areas are history and archaeology, but I am happy to take on work in any humanities/non-technical area and environmental studies/natural history as well as subjects such as sport and gardening.
I have particular experience in academic texts, from articles and theses to heavyweight monographs, and am rarely happier than when in the depths of an especially intractable bibliography. However, I relish the occasional job out the ordinary, and have transformed, among other books, a text on the historical uses of poisonous plants and a popular history of Cambridge's town–gown relationship for their respective authors.
Testimonials
• The work you did on [the] manuscript was magnificent – [we] were both incredibly impressed and grateful for everything you did. — Hertfordshire University Press
• I am immensely grateful to the copy editor for the extraordinary care and attention she has devoted to reading the text so meticulously. I am extremely fortunate to have had the benefit of such close reading. — Hugh Prince, published by Hertfordshire University Press
• Thanks for your wonderful help. You have some real skill. You have generously helped the manuscript become clearer and more important. — David Boje, State University of New Mexico, published by Taylor & Francis
• … excellent copy-editing, which is exceptionally thorough, accurate and trouble-free. — John Blair, published by Exeter University Press
• She effortlessly improves any text, without undertaking the kinds of unnecessary revision that change the original sense. She provides a perfect level of textual consistency, according to whatever 'house style' she is working to. And she has an unerring eye for the author’s own inconsistencies, which she flags up with tact, and occasionally some humour. It is a joy to work with her: I cannot recommend her too highly. — Tom Williamson, Emeritus Professor, School of History, University of East Anglia
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