Editor: Helen Topor
TopWords
Tel: 02 6251 4672 Email: helenvtopor@gmail.com
BA (Hons), Dip Ed, (University of NSW); MEd (Sydney University)
Services
- Editing—Substantive editing, copy editing, proofreading, MS assessment, training in the field.
- Other services—Writing, rewriting, conversion to plain English.
- Subject fields—Academic (social sciences), financial services, corporate communication, management and business, security environment, adult education and training, humanities, natural history, child studies, social issues, horticulture.
- Media—Research reports, books, annual reports,manuals, guidelines, articles, tertiary learning materials, newsletters, intranet sites, web sites, corporate communications, promotional materials, museum display panels, natural history posters.
Specific projects
Wrote published reviews: Neil James’ Writing at Work, Michael Phelan’s Literati, Flann & Hill’s The Australian Editing Handbook and Sabto’s The On-Screen Editing Handbook.
Edited research reports: Integarted responses to homelessness; Why special services are needed to address Indigenous homelessness; Northern Rivers Social Development Council Report; AFP Intelligence Doctrine; 'Sudden Stops and Liability Dollarisation: Evidence from Asia's Financial Intermediaries'; the International Journal of Criminal Intelligence; St John Ambulance annual reports; Owen Griffiths’ Non-Marine Molluscs of the Mascareignes; Genevieve Pitot’s The Mauritian Shekel; 4-volumes of Graduate Certificate in Child Management Services, Fifty Years and Growing: a History of Horticulture Education in the ACT; display panels for La Vanille Crocodile Park natural history museum, Mauritius; co-edited The Little Book of Style; co-proofread Australia and Recognition of the People’s Republic of China 1949-1972; co-wrote and coordinated editing of web-based Certificate IV in Systems Analysis and Design Toolbox.
Fast turnaround. Reasonable rates. Accuracy. Sensitivity to organisational and reader needs and cultural issues.