Editor: Gil Garcon
Cupertino Partners
Tel: 04 1470 1470 Email: Gil.Garcon@three.com.au
Qualifications: technical communication (post-graduate); extensive language and editing training; professional plain language editor for private clients and government agencies for over 20 years
Services
- Editing—Substantive editing, rewriting, conversion to plain language, summaries and document development, copy-editing, proofreading
- Other services—I will: prepare your technical summaries, media releases, campaign and promotional copy; manage production from concept to completion; do desktop publishing; perform French-to-English and English-to-French editing and quality assurance.
- Subject fields—Technical subjects: law, life sciences (environment, agriculture, fisheries, nutrition), program evaluation, defence, shipping, navigation. Pacific affairs; non-fiction
- Media—Books (non-fiction); technical instructions, manuals, fact-sheets and reports; newsletters, posters, fliers; websites; seminar and workshop material
Specific projects
Australian Taxation Office: TaxPack, e-tax, tax-time instruction books, promotional material
Australian Greenhouse Office: newsletters, fact sheets, technical reports, website
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry: NFSAC technical reports, promotional booklets
Department of Defence: reports, legal manuals
ABRS (Australian Biological Resources Study) : Flora of Australia
APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation): Electronic Authentication
Treasury: The Centenary of Treasury, The Little Black Book of Scams, annual and other reports
Secretariat of the Pacific Community: numerous general, maritime, fisheries, medical, statistical publications and media
I specialise in direct and plain language to make complex topics accessible to the public and specific audiences. Member of: ASTC (Australian Society for Technical Communication), PLAIN (Plain Language Association INternational), Clarity International