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References

Kathleen’s position involved crucial multi-faceted support duties for a small regional editorial office coordinating four agricultural magazines and their web sites. She coordinated and edited regular columns and columns based on reader input, edited feature stories and converted release information into web site news, conducted and analyzed surveys, and coordinated freelance payment schedules and updated contact lists. She came into an office in dire need of organizational help, reorganized and gleaned an archaic filing system, and handled many written and electronic communications with readers and business contacts.

John Vogel, Editor, Farm Progress Company's Pennsylvania Farmer, Maryland Farmer, New England Farmer, and American Agriculturist

The editing of my book... involved complicated concepts and special skills... in re-arranging and rewriting statements to be more easily understood... It was essential that Ms. O'Connor have a wide understanding of psychology, sociology, religion, and history, as well as a  thorough... understanding of English. I am grateful for her indispensable treatment of my work through her wide familiarity with concepts that, ordinarily, would have been unfamiliar to an editor. She has treated my work as that of her own.

M.M. Salehi, Ph.D., author of Insurgency Through Culture and Religion, Praeger

I find Kathleen to be a knowledgeable, articulate, organized, detail-oriented, and reliable person. I am most impressed with Kathleen's knowledge of written English.

Melissa Olt, M.A., High School Grading Supervisor, formerly of Seton Home Study School

I have been meaning for some time to drop you a note to compliment you on what a fantastic job I think you are doing with the newsletter for the Gaelic League. Not only is its style and format very readable and professional, the news, articles, and other offerings therein are informative, varied, and quite meaningful. Keep up the good work.

Michael Cavanagh, State of Michigan Supreme Court Justice
 

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Research:

Writing:

Editing:

Styles:
  • Literary
  • Historical
  • Legal
  • Theological
  • Note Taking
  • Scoping
  • Fact Checking
  • Abstracts
  • Reports
  • Grants
  • Proposals
  • Indexes
  • Ghostwriting
  • News Writing
  • Newsletters
  • Web News
  • Theses
  • Dissertations
  • Books
  • Reference Lists
  • Technical Manuals
  • Textbooks
  • Web Pages
  • Substantive Editing
  • Copy Editing
  • ESL Editing
  • Proofreading
  • Word Processing
  • Transcription
  • CMS
  • CBE
  • MLA
  • GPO
  • AP
  • APA
  • Blue Book
  • Zondervan
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Qualifications

Degrees & Certificates

  • Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

    M.A. English w/ TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) training (in progress)
    B.A. English w/ secondary teacher certification & TESOL training

     

  • EEI Communications, Alexandria, VA

    Master Editor Certification
    CINDEX Training
    Quark XPress Training

     

  • ComputerWorks, Winchester, VA

    Microsoft Office Certification
    Adobe PageMaker Training

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Languages

  • French, Spanish, German, Irish

Professional Memberships

  • FBB (Freelance Brunch Bunch) — Alexandria, VA
  • The Writer's Center — Bethesda, MD
  • National Directory of Editors and Writers for Hire (2005)

EXPERIENCE Portfolio

Wrote:

  • Biotechnology Institute - Teacher Resource Guide for Genome
  • Compulit - ~ 860 abstracts
  • Editor's Web - ~ 4,550 headlines
  • Emmitsburg Dispatch - “Vandals in Emmitsburg” November 1997, “Anna Margaret Retires” December 1997, “Making Music Dobro Style” January 1998, “Senior Citizen News” February 1998, “Room with a View” April 1998, “From Rookie to Professional” June 1998, “A Winged Career at Rest” July 1998, “Civil-la-Tea, a Tea Experience” September 1998,“CASS Welcomes New Area Director” October 1998,“The Torch is Passed” March 1999,“Crouse’s on the Square” April 1999,“For the Folk of Chicago Town” December 1998, “Emmanuel” January 1999
  • Pennsylvania Farmer - "Picture perfect: Mid-Atlantic rural living photo contest," 9/2001
  • Maryland Farmer - "Maryland Fair"
  • Farm Progress Company - 10 Web news articles
  • Gaelic League - Sword of Light newsletter, 1988, 2 vols.
  • Hartley Courseware - Project Star vocabulary/lessons
  • Johnstown Magazine - "Medicine takes big steps to help smallest of patients," May 2005
  • Lansing Community College - Writing for Reading: an Experience in Writing Easy Reading Books for a Peer Audience, a successful faculty professional development grant
  • National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse - ~ 90 abstracts
  • National Emergency Training Center - indexes
  • National Institutes of Health - report of NSMA Health Awareness Fair 2000
  • Seton Press
    • , English for Young Catholics [revised] - and 3 original poems
  • The Angelus Religious Goods - The Gleaner newsletter, 2 issues
  • The Lansing Star - 1 article

Edited:

  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Island Press - 24 references lists
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - 16 articles
  • Emmitsburg.net
    • - Web articles
  • Pennsylvania Farmer, Maryland Farmer, New England Farmer, American Agriculturist - articles, columns, managed Recipes/Country Air columns
  • Incorporating Access and Flow Control Policies in Requirements Engineering - K.S. Alghathbar, PhD., George Mason University
  • Good Morning Lord - George A. Kirk, Jr., Gospel Folio Press, 1995
  • Housing and Urban Development - series of homeowner guides
  • "Clara Barton: A Johnstown legacy," Ed Kane, Johnstown Magazine, May 2005
  • The Comparative Analytical Study of the Arabian Gulf Broadcasting Systems: the Foreign Contextual Television Penetration, A. Merdad, MA., Michigan State University thesis, 1986
  • National Emergency Training Center - agendas, rosters, bios, textbooks, weather reports
  • Order of Carmelites Discalced Secular - retreat program guides
  • Insurgency through Culture and Religion: The Islamic Revolution of Iran, M.M. Salehi, PhD., Praeger Publishers, 1988
  • Credit Risk and Mortgage Lending: Who Uses Subprime and Why? Research Institute for Housing America, September 2000
  • Time and Consciousness: An Explanatory Study of Meanings of Users of New Media, J.W. Cordes, PhD., University of Maryland dissertation, 2002
  • World Bank - Voices of the Poor [2000]; Purchase of Textbooks [2000]; Electrification in Sri Lanka [2003]
  • World Bible Publishers
    • , Trinity (manuscript)
  • Writer Online - articles on writing
  • R. Phillips - bibliography

Transcribed/Word Processed Edits:

  • ICS Publications - national conference presentations
  • SSR, Inc. - reports/references