Robin Stevenson
Dan Jason
BC Ministry of Education
Marc Lepine
Jim Reynolds
Michael Gates
Polly Daktilly
Laura Langston
Aaron W. Hughes
Workshop for Halton Region Health Department
Jim Reynolds
Bill Burns
Geoff Mynett
Colin Henthorne
John Hatch
Catherine Marie Gilbert
Kevin Thomas Townley, Jr.
John E. Marriott
Government of BC/ Vancouver Island University/ BCCampus
Corynne Pless/ Tim Hirschmann/ Ye Rin Mok
Skye Sherman
Shari Peyerl
Katharena Vermette/ Scott B. Henderson/ Donovan Yaciuk
Bal Pawa
Author: Margriet Ruurs, Artist: Nizar Ali Badr
Isabelle Groc
Jean Walton
Priscilla Stanbury
Tracy Severson/ Sergio Fazio
Roy Henry Vickers/ Robert Budd
Ana Pêgo/ Bernardo P. Carvalho/ Isabel Minhós Martins
Stephen Hui
Ann Douglas
Legal Services Society
Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
From the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Collection
Beverley Patwell
Children’s Heart Network of BC Society
James McCann
Nancy Marguerite Anderson
Tyee Bridge
Nicola Levell
Ian McAllister/ Alex Van Tol
Legal Services Society
Doctors of BC
Martin Family Initiative
Joseph Kimble
Dominique Prinet
Susan D. Dion
Merrie-Ellen Wilcox
Richard Van Camp/ Julie Flett
Wendy Wickwire
Christopher Dummitt/ Christabelle Sethna
George Zukerman
Thierry Geerts
Fuyubi Nakamura
Tamar Glouberman
Deirdre Buryk
David Waltner-Toews
North American Waterfowl Management Plan
Jeremy Snyder
Legal Services Society
Rinny Grimaud
Natural Resources Canada
First Nations Fisheries Council of British Columbia
Lori Weidenhammer
Rowena Rae
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Monique Gray Smith
Derek Hayes
Richard Wagamese
BC Regional Innovation Chair for Aboriginal Early Childhood Development
Tyee Bridge
John Hunsley/ Catherine M. Lee
Kathryn Bridge
Office of the Auditor General of BC
Arne Quinze et al./ with photography by Dave Bruel
Ricardo
Grant Lawrence
Trish Magwood
Tiny Frog Strategies
Daniel Pauly
Yvonne Boyer/ Larry Chartrand
Christy Goerzen
Anna Olson
Dr. Luschiim Arvid Charlie/ Nancy J. Turner
Emma Fitzgerald
BC Ministry of Advanced Education/ University of British Columbia/ BC Campus
Rowena Rae
Legal Services Society
Jack Knox
Faye HeavyShield
Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane
Karen Autio/ Emma Pedersen
Ed Kravitz
Sharon Kirsch
Jean Barman
Lily Collison/ Kara Buckley
Bridgett Miller
Workshop for Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC)
Elisa De Wyngaert/ Lou Stoppard/ Ellen Sampson/ Charlie Porter
April Liu
Angus An
Torbjørn Ekelund
Dr. Michele Kambolis
Carolyn Jung
Barry Gough
Andrew Thomas
Alice Ming Wai Jim/ Diana Freundl/ Howie Tsui
Barbara Smith
Dr. Lindsay Herriot / Kate Fry
Michael H. Khan et al.
Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
Victoria Dickenson et al.
Gordon McFarlane/
Jackie King
Ian Waddell
Workshop for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Adriana Barton
Preena Chauhan/ Arvinda Chauhan
Christine M’Lot
SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Simon Fraser University
Linda L. Richards
Lee Murphy
Rosie Daykin
Sharona Adamowicz-Clements and Darrin J. Martens
Rika Ruebsaat
Allison Crawford/ Lisa Boivin
M. Anne Wyness
Jo Chrona
International Journal of Indigenous Health
First Nations Fisheries Council of BC
Shalene Wuttunee Jobin
Kwanlin Dün First Nation
Venkat Venkatraman
Early Childhood Educators of BC
Sam George
Andy MacKinnon/ Kem Luther
Created by Christine M’Lot
Rosie Daykin
Corbin Tomaszeski
Amanda Swinimer
Rowena Rae
Tamara Williamson
Kit Pearson/ Katherine Farris/ Gabrielle Grimard
David A. Neel
Sean McCammon
Audain Art Museum
Culture and Sport Glasgow
Carey Newman/ Kirstie Hudson
Dianne L. Woodruff
Lisa Dawn Bolton
Julia Zarankin
Zazie Todd
Lily Collison
Lana Okerlund
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry
Judith Williams
Tracy Kasaboski/ Kristen den Hartog
Zazie Todd
Drew Hayden Taylor
Jean Barman
Trevor Boddy
James McCann
Lisa Jean Russ
Lou Beauchesne/ Kate Chappell
Antonia Huber
Tony Esteves
Claudia Cornwall
Richard Zussman/ Rob Shaw
Agata Toromanoff
Anthony Alan Shelton
Johanna Wagstaffe
Robert Lemon
Leslie Howard
Jordan Mounteer
Richard Moxley
Karen Autio
Adrian Forte
Diane Borsato/ Kelsey Oseid
Barry Baugh
Stefanie Waldek
Andrew Mellen
Vanessa Perrone
Rochelle Grayson/ Daniel Padgett/ Andrew Loos
BC Ministry of Advanced Education/ University of British Columbia / BC Campus
Katherine Luo
Nancy Marguerite Anderson
Ralph Milton
Rika Ruebsaat
Beatrice Mosionier
Rowena Rae
The Law Society of British Columbia
Orac Decor
Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia
Giulia Riva/ Tristan Manco/ Dries Van Melkebeke
G. Wayne Pepper
K.L. Denman
Jeri Ross
Barbara Smith/ Nellie McClung
Christopher D. Burnley
Chef David Hawksworth
Nick Hannes
Lauren Mote/ James O. Fraioli
Wade Repta/ Andrée Repta
Val Markos/ Tammy Martin
Jeremy Snyder
Jennifer Schell
Barry Gough
First Nations Fisheries Council of British Columbia
St. Margaret’s School
Keith Seifert
Ian Hanomansing
Jane Munro
Kadir van Lohuizen
Sandee Krause
Christopher Gainor
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Sylvia Olsen
John MacLachlan Gray
Hanna Bjørgaas
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“Lana, I want to thank you for a great course. I think you do a great balancing act of delivering honest critique while staying respectful and kind. I have learned so much!”
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Other projects
Editing
- Annual reports, information sheets, and manuals (WorkSafeBC)
- BCcampus Open Textbook Project
- BC’s New Curriculum 2014–present (BC Ministry of Education)
- Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education
- Combatting Money Laundering in BC Real Estate (BC Ministry of Finance)
- EASE Online (Open School BC)
- Forestry technical reports (BC Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Strategy)
- Principles of Administrative Justice course manual and online videos (Foundation of Administrative Justice)
- The New Energy Playbook: An Accelerator for Innovation and Transformation (Boston University/Amazon Web Services)
Writing
- From Gold Trails and Farm Fields: The Story of Our Ordinary Extraordinary Family (Marti Oppenheimer)
- From the Ground Up: The Story of Ledcor—The First Seventy Years (Ledcor)
- SOP Manual, editorial and writing style guide (Metro Vancouver—Public Involvement Division)
Training
- Introduction to editing
- Proofreading, basic and advanced
- Copy editing, basic and advanced
- Stylistic editing
- Structural editing
- Querying
- Style sheets and style manuals
- Cookbook editing
- Strategic planning for editors
- Developing a freelance editing career
- Writing process
- Plain language
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Workplace writing
- Report writing
- Writing professional bios