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