Ms Virginia Rounding | Academic editing and proofreading
- [email protected]
- Website
- https://virginiarounding.org/
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Virginia
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A multi-skilled and empathetic editor/proofreader /indexer with experience in a wide range of subject areas, passionate about helping writers produce the best text of which they are capable.
I specialise in the copy-editing of academic texts, working both with publishers and book packagers and directly with academics. In addition, I offer a proofreading service to PhD and Master’s students, and on occasion to undergraduates. I also index academic and other books, working either from PDF files to compile the index or producing embedded indexes directly in Microsoft Word.
My delight in the intricacies of English grammar and spelling (UK and US) and my obsession with achieving consistency in whatever referencing system is being used are complemented by a life-time of wide reading (in English, French and Russian) which has often enabled me to pick up potential errors that authors may have missed. While I do not pretend to know as much about any subject as the specialist authors I work with, I generally know enough to know what to query, what to check, and what to leave alone.
My expertise as a proofreader and editor was also enhanced by experience gained both as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art (2008–11) where I worked with students at all levels on a wide variety of art-historical topics, and as a local councillor in the City of London (2011–17) where I developed particular knowledge of urban design, open-space management and local government reporting.
Media
- Theses and dissertations
- Multi-author books
- Books
- Journals
Experience
- Freelance since 2011
- Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2008-2011
Training
- Efficient Editing (CIEP), 2024
- References (CIEP), 2020
- Proofreading Theses and Dissertations (CIEP), 2020
- Editing with Word (CIEP), 2016
Clients
- Louvre Abu Dhabi
- Integra (in particular for Bloomsbury Academic)
- Newgen (for Peter Lang, Manchester University Press and others)
- Keith Povey Editorial Services
- Houses of Parliament
- Kevin Mayhew Ltd
- Oslo National Academy of the Arts
- London School of Economics
- University of Cardiff
- University of Lausanne
- Many individual PhD and Master's students and academics
Subjects
art history, museum studies, history of fashion, history (British, church, European), biography (historical, literary, musical, political, religious), architecture, built environment, urban regeneration, local government, housing, literature (English, French, Russian), theology, religious studies, gender studies, organisational behaviour, public relations, medicine (clinical research), public health, epidemiology
Qualifications
BA in Russian Language and Literature
testimonials
Thanks for the great work done on Menon et al. and all its different characteristics.
Keith Povey Editorial Services
I just had time to have a quick look, but it seems like always you have done excellent work. Thank you so much for doing it on time and for the additional work on the footnotes.
Patricia S-A.
What a joy to find the manuscript in such better shape. Thank you for all the work you have done upon it.
David A.
I was very lucky to have such a reliable and professional editor.
Natalia B.
Many thanks again for the editing and advice. I had a great experience, and since writing a book is one of my things-to-do (after a bit of a break!), I hope to one day work with you again. My supervisors finished reading the chapters and were very happy with it, saying that they couldn’t believe the difference and that it reads excellently! So again, thank you. They asked for your contact details to suggest to other PhD candidates, and I hope you don’t mind but I obliged.
Adrian B.
With a huge ‘thank you’, I am very grateful. The CMOS version is just perfect, and I can send it to the volume editor straightaway.
Weipin T.
It was a pleasure and a breeze working with you. Thanks very much Virginia, again a superbly handled copy edit, you really do build excellent relationships with these authors.
Project Manager at Integra
Wonderful; thank you Virginia. I have gone over everything in the other chapters and I see that you have saved me from several embarrassing errors! Thank you so much!!
Professor at LSE
I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your willingness to go above and beyond in helping me meet my deadlines while maintaining such high standards of professionalism.
Li K.
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