Editorial Freelancers Association
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Mary Margaret Freeman
Editor & Writing Coach for Academic and Post-Academic Writers
Based in the NYC metro, I’m a savvy wordsmith and meticulous editor/writing coach with 25+ years experience. I assist scholarly, academic, and non-fiction authors who write on general, humanities, and qualitative social science topics. My revisions of personal statements have won my clients college admission, academic jobs, and even a Fulbright scholarship.
I also help writers who’ve left academia–but who still want to share their knowledge and insights–transition to a more lay reader-accessible writing style, whether for a blog, website, or cross-posted content.
Whether you’re struggling to meet a deadline, write a dissertation, polish an article, blog or post, or turn your ESL writing into fluent American English, I’ll enhance your voice, polish your prose, and–if you wish–take you through the steps to do the same. The result is effective communication with your audience.
My academic creds include a BA in journalism, an MA in creative writing and an ABD in literature and theology with a fellowship year in medieval studies. You’ll especially benefit from my many years as a college/university teacher and tutor of writing, my D.C. think tank and freelance editing chops, and my responsive, collaborative style of editing and coaching.
I offer the following services:
- Developmental editing, copyediting, line/substantive editing, proofreading
- Writing evaluation and coaching
- Dissertations, theses, peer-reviewed articles, advanced research writing, monographs & books, oral histories, general non-fiction writing
- Peer-reviewed journals
- Academic reports and program evaluations
- ESL editing
- Word reduction for readability and conciseness
- Personal statements
- MLA, APA, CMOS/Turabian and other style sheets
How it works: Email me about your project and I’ll do a sample edit/evaluation of 500-1000 words. We’ll then set up a 30-minute free consult for us to interview each other. If we’re a match, we’ll move forward!
Email: maryfreemanediting@gmail.com
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Years in the field: 25
Years freelancing: 25
Mary Freeman
Based in the NYC metro, I’m a savvy wordsmith and meticulous editor/writing coach with 25+ years experience. I assist scholarly, academic, and non-fiction authors who write on general, humanities, and qualitative social science topics. My revisions of personal statements have won my clients college admission, academic jobs, and even a Fulbright scholarship.
I also help writers who’ve left academia–but who still want to share their knowledge and insights–transition to a more lay reader-accessible writing style, whether for a blog, website, or cross-posted content.
Whether you’re struggling to meet a deadline, write a dissertation, polish an article, blog or post, or turn your ESL writing into fluent American English, I’ll enhance your voice, polish your prose, and–if you wish–take you through the steps to do the same. The result is effective communication with your audience.
My academic creds include a BA in journalism, an MA in creative writing and an ABD in literature and theology with a fellowship year in medieval studies. You’ll especially benefit from my many years as a college/university teacher and tutor of writing, my D.C. think tank and freelance editing chops, and my responsive, collaborative style of editing and coaching.
I offer the following services:
- Developmental editing, copyediting, line/substantive editing, proofreading
- Writing evaluation and coaching
- Dissertations, theses, peer-reviewed articles, advanced research writing, monographs & books, oral histories, general non-fiction writing
- Peer-reviewed journals
- Academic reports and program evaluations
- ESL editing
- Word reduction for readability and conciseness
- Personal statements
- MLA, APA, CMOS/Turabian and other style sheets
How it works: Email me about your project and I’ll do a sample edit/evaluation of 500-1000 words. We’ll then set up a 30-minute free consult for us to interview each other. If we’re a match, we’ll move forward!
