Lee Titus Elliott
Elliott Editorial Online
Your editor of choice since 1992™
3213 Rolesville Road
Wendell, NC 27591-9760
Telephone: (919) 885-3176
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Résumé
Skills
Developmental
editing, substantive editing, copyediting,
and proofreading of fiction; literary nonfiction; general nonfiction; literary
criticism; master’s theses and PhD dissertations; textbooks on law, criminal
justice, political science; textbooks for teachers. Also copyediting of the
bimonthly Bookmarks Magazine. Target
market includes academic and university presses, trade publishers (e.g.,
Algonquin Books), and master’s and PhD candidates working on theses and
dissertations, respectively. Other info:
freelance editor since 2002; fiction writer; college/university instructor
of English composition and literature, 1972–2002. In addition, I am familiar
with the following:
- The Chicago
Manual of Style (16th ed.).
- Words into Type (3rd ed.).
- Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.).
- The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed.).
Selected Major Experience
1992– Self-employed
(Elliott Editorial Online, Wendell,
NC; Web Site: http://www.elliotteditorial.com)
Freelance
Developmental Editor/Copy Editor/Proofreader
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Have
developmentally edited, copyedited, proofread, and fact-checked manuscripts on
a freelance basis for a number of publishers—including Harcourt (San Diego),
United Nations University Press (Tokyo), Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (NC),
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (Alexandria, VA), and
Carolina Academic Press (Durham, NC). I have also copyedited for Bookmarks Magazine (Chapel
Hill, NC, and Berkeley, CA).
1998–2001 Durham Technical Community College, Durham, NC
Adjunct English Instructor
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Taught several
sections of developmental English composition in which students frequently use
a computer to draft, revise, and edit their compositions.
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Taught several
sections of college transfer composition: English 111.
1984–1990 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Lecturer in
English
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Taught Freshman
Composition.
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Taught Technical
Writing.
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Taught Studies in
Fiction.
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Taught Creative
Writing.
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Taught American
Literature Survey.
Languages
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Reading knowledge
of Latin and Greek
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Reading and speaking knowledge of German
Professional Memberships
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The Modern
Language Association
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Editorial Freelancers
Association: http://www.the-efa.org
Community (pro bono) Activities
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Editor of the
Triangle Men’s Center newsletter
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Editor of the
Mary Renault Society newsletter
Education
1983: MFA in English and
Creative Writing, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
1970: MA in English, Hollins College
(now Hollins University),
Roanoke, VA
1969: BA in Latin, University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Selected Editing References
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Dr. David
Schultz, Professor; Hamline University, Graduate School of Public
Administration and Management, MS-A1710; 1536 Hewitt Avenue, St. Paul, MN
55104. Telephone: (651) 523-2858.
E-mail: dschultz@gw.hamline.edu.
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Mr. James Fishman, Professor of Law; Pace University;
78 North Broadway, White Plains,
NY 10603.
Telephone: (914) 422-4000. E-mail: jfishman@law.pace.edu.
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Mr. Jon Phillips, Editor and Publisher; Bookmarks Magazine; 1818 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, # 181, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Telephone: (919) 968-9966.
E-mail: jon@bookmarksmagazine.com.
Web site: http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com.
·
Dr. David McCuan,
Professor; Department of Political Science; Sonoma State University; 1801 E.
Cotati Avenue; Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Telephone: (707) 664-3309. E-mail: david.mcuan@sonoma.edu
For publications edited by me, see my Web site Elliott Editorial Online.