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Joyce Huddleston BSc
Freelance technical writer, editor and abstractor
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The services I offer include:
- writing for a target audience using the format and housestyle specified by the client
- on-screen editing of technical documents to produce concise, readable English in a consistent style
- on-screen copy-editing of scientific journals and reports
- on-screen editing of all types of written material – books, reports, journal articles, web pages, leaflets and CD-ROMs
- summarising documents for a technical or non-technical readership
- preparation of abstracts and selection of index terms from a controlled vocabulary
- designing simple web pages
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My main fields of expertise are:
- waste management
- environmental issues
- renewable energy
- energy efficiency
- environmental science
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- biochemistry
- chemistry
- biotechnology
- molecular biology
- general science/engineering
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Experience
My scientific and technical background has helped me to:
- Contribute to over 350 publications for government-funded programmes – Envirowise, Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme, Carbon Trust , BIO-WISE and TransportEnergy – under contract to AEA, for whom I have been an approved technical writer and editor since 1992. This work involves on-screen editing of text supplied by external consultants, rewriting material supplied by consultants, writing short articles and preparing press releases.
- Undertake other projects for AEA including technical editing of the European Environment Agency's indicator report, Environmental Signals 2000, and drafting project summaries for phase 1 and 2 of a joint UK/Chinese study on the effect of climate change on Chinese agriculture.
- Edit over 350 guidance documents, leaflets and scientific reports for the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
- Update two chapters (Chapter 19 Environment and Chapter 28 Energy and Natural Resources) of the Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2005 for the Office for National Statistics
- Edit research reports and produce case studies commissioned by the retail, construction and plasterboard programmes of WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme)
- Edit research reports commissioned by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
- Edit Occasional Papers and Research Findings produced by the charity Thomas Pocklington Trust
- Edit articles for Waste Management World and Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production - bimonthly magazines produced by PennWell
- Copy-edit books for the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Copy-edit books on corporate responsibility and sustainability for Greenleaf Publishing
- Copy-edit journal articles for Oxford University Press
- Write abstracts and select index terms for the Energy Technology Database Exchange, a database covering all aspects of energy from renewables to oil extraction. Between 1987 and 2001, I prepared many abstracts for WasteInfo - a bibliographic database covering all aspects of waste management.
Courses at Abingdon and Witney College on designing web pages helped me develop a website for Steventon Choral Society – one of the choirs I sing with in my spare time – and Radley Village Shop. I have also designed promotional websites for several local businesses including a bed & breakfast in Steventon, Tethers End, an Oxford-based psychotherapist, Ben Whitaker, and a holiday home in Italy. |
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Current and past clients include:
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Qualifications
I have a First Class Honours degree in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham, with post-graduate experience in biochemistry gained by working as a research assistant at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. Published papers
I have been freelance since 1987 and a member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders since 1992.
I am generally available to take on projects at fairly short notice. |
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