Laura Edlund’s Experience: Project Highlights

For more about projects and client details, see testimonials and Clients & Employers.

• writing and/or editing online/e-publication content for diverse audiences and needs (Minkbooks, JumpMath, writingwebwords.com, etc.)
• researching and writing, or rewriting and editing, for plain language such wide-ranging subjects as…
  • math, money matters, financial literacy (JumpMath, Annick Press, Pacific Educational Press)
  • Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and teaching drama to children (Pacific Educational Press)
  • First Nations, Métis, and Inuit governance (Pearson/GoodMinds.com)
  • poverty, homelessness, and US mortgage and debt crisis (Oxford University Press)
  • economics (McGraw-Hill, Oxford)
  • fashion, social and environmental impacts of the textile and garment trades (Pacific Educational Press)
  • exploration (Harcourt)
  • environment and global resource use (Nelson, Harcourt)
  • religion (Nelson)
  • hazardous materials (Canadian Hazardous Materials)
  • food policy (Stone Soup)
  • law (Nelson)
• volunteering with the Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) to promote professionalism and best practices in various capacities—e.g., hosting sessions at the first international conference of editors and assisting with certificate examinations
• writing and/or editing material on hot issues, with sensitivity and depth and involving multiple perspectives and audiences—e.g., present experiences of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples in Canada; social justice issues; poverty, homelessness, and policy (Pearson/GoodMinds.com, Oxford, etc.)
• developing, editing, revising, and repurposing for Canadian markets, local markets, and new market opportunities—e.g., blog entries for Toronto families, Alberta and British Columbia anthology, textbook for Ontario, textbook for Alberta, Canadianized spelling series (Harcourt, Pearson/GoodMinds.com, Oxford, Scholastic)
• editing for smooth, “natural” English language and the North American market (Italian Diction Online, JumpMath, Minkbooks, various individual authors)
• writing and editing instructional, how-to, and other sequential content—e.g., teacher’s guides, craft instructions, business forms, timelines (JumpMath, Nelson, Scholastic, etc.)
• writing in diverse forms, for distinct readerships and objectives—e.g., community profiles, question-and-answer about design for the blind, hero trading cards, experiment instructions, poster about reducing cell phone waste, craft instructions, an easy-reading magazine series covering hockey, the Internet, microscopic life, sports, rescue workers, exercise and health, disasters, the solar system, and more (Nelson, Scholastic, Pronk, craft business, Nelson/Gage)
• researching and writing about science and environmental issues (Pacific Educational Press, McGraw, Scholastic, Nelson, Harcourt)
• researching, writing, and editing history and geography materials (e.g., global resources and their use—Nelson); Aboriginal history, Canadian emblems, herbal remedies, trade, European exploration; developing art requirements; identifying visuals; approving design and layout; and then writing complementary support and instructional material (Harcourt))
• writing, editing, and research for specialized publications and with subject matter experts, complex author teams, and multiple review and consultant panels:
  – Nelson/Novalis custom publication for the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops—World Religions: A Canadian Catholic Perspective
  –  Oxford University Press textbooks for Alberta Education—Perspectives on Ideology and Understanding Ideology—contemporary and historical, international and Canadian political, economic, and social philosophy
  – Nelson textbook Societies for the Council of Atlantic Ministries of Education and Training (CAMET)
• editing varied trade books, such as…
  • The Research Virtuoso, Fatty Legs, Kaboom!, The Little Black Book for Guys, The Little Black Book for Girlz, The Seventh Expert, 52 Days by Camel, A Native American Thought of It (Annick)
  • FAQ: Weather, 1984—The Year I Was Born, The Last Safe House, Alexander Graham Bell (Kids Can)
  • Silverwings and SuperKids (HarperCollins)
• writing and editing a community blog, newsletter, and other strategic communications for non-profit organizations (Stone Soup Food Co-op, other organizations)