How it began
I was for many years a full-time professional photographer (an ABIPP in Portraiture, also Hon. Sec. of the NW Region for 2 years), which requires a very keen eye for detail, but then I returned to university studies. On my MA course in the Department of Linguistics and English Language (LAEL) at Lancaster University, my fellow students were from Greece, Iran, China and Taiwan. We soon became classmates and sometimes they asked me to check, i.e. proofread, their English, which I was happy to do, and then they would want to buy me a coffee or make me lunch. From there it snowballed – roommates, housemates, lecturers (some in Lancaster University Management Schoool (LUMS)) and supervisors would ask who helped them and then contact me for assistance with their own essays, coursework, master’s dissertations, MBAs, PhD theses, conference papers and book manuscripts.
I have worked on a number of prestigious projects, including: SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics; JECL (Sage); English Language: Description, Variation and Context (Culpeper, Kerswill, Wodak, McEnery & Katamba); DYLAN; Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South (Eds: Paul Kerswill, Heike Wiese); Metaphor in Discourse, Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse (Ed.: Majid KhosraviNik). Today, I have (often repeat) customers in many countries. Please see my feedback comments.
As a native speaker of English, with a background in French (also a BA (Hons) in French from Lancaster University) and an MA from the Department of Linguistics and English Language (LAEL), Lancaster University, UK, these diverse skills equip me to proofread and copy-edit text in many disciplines and contexts (academic, business, commerce, education) to a very high standard. I am in the Lancaster University Register of Approved Proofreaders.