How can I help? mark@markalleneditorial.com
A good copy editor is first a reader, making sure the author’s point is understood. I clean documents of distracting typos, I match usage to preferred style, and I make sure clarity is achieved so honest ideas come through.
About Mark Allen
Mark Allen has been helping others improve their writing since he was a teenage editor on his high school newspaper. He edited professionally for 20 years on newspaper copy desks and for 15-plus years as a freelancer. He regularly edits articles on emerging technologies, university accreditation self-studies, curriculum materials, scholarly papers, policy papers, daily news stories and analyses, marketing documents, blog entries, business-to-business and business-to-consumer emails, nonfiction books, and more. He is president-elect of ACES: The Society for Editing, the English-speaking world's largest professional association for those who edit. He has taught extensively on writing and editing, including developing the intermediate editing certificate program on math and numbers for the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
Photo by Ann Allen
Partial client list
A great joy of freelance editing is the variety of clients it brings me in contact with, affording opportunities to learn with every one. Here are some of the organizations I've head the pleasure of editing for over the years:
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American Journalism Project
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Apple Tree Institute
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BillMoyers.com
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Brooklyn College
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Cheapism
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Cities of Service
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Columbus State Community College
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The Conference Board
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Equity Methods LLC
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FiveThirtyEight
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Gear Stream
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Harvard Education Publishing Group
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Hudson Institute
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International Center for Transitional Justice
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International Fact-Checking Network
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Johns Hopkins University
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Keck Medicine of USC
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Kennedy Krieger Institute
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The Knight Foundation
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Learning Mate
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Lingofy
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​Microsoft
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MIT Horizon
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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National University
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Nationwide Financial
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Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
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The Ohio State University
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Plan International
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Red Flag Group
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Roto
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Skoll Foundation
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Trilogy Education
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UMass Transportation Center
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
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University of Kansas
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University of Maryland School of Nursing
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Virtual Lab School of the Ohio State Collaborative
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Women Enabled International
You be the editor​
Click below to try your hand at various usage questions, based on my social media posts and a quiz I developd for the Poynter Institute for Media studies a decade ago.