Pamela Strickland

Pamela Strickland – Editor

Copy editor who has worked as both a journalist and editor for 45 years with respect to both the author's voice and the reader's needs.

Overview

I am a retired communications professional fluent in Chicago Manual of Style seeking to return to the world of the written word with part-time copy editing and proofreading work. My preferred genre is nonfiction ranging from Memoir and Biography to History to Christian. I spent five years as a freelance copy editor for The University of Tennessee Press working on a wide range of subjects including an analysis of Cormac McCarthy's writing to an examination of politics across the Cumberland Plateau.

I had worked 20 years as a professional writer and editor, well respected for my skills, when I walked into the classroom. It was then, working with students, that I truly learned the finer points of editing and proofreading. They were there to learn, and it was in responding to their work and their questions that I was able to look at the details -- the nuances -- of the words as well as the grammar and mechanics that I moved to the next level in my own understanding and work. Now 25 years since I began my master's studies and worked as a TA, I'm thankful for that gift.

Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs Christian Non-Fiction
Languages
English (US)
Awards
  • Champion of Equality, Tennessee Equality Project, 2013

Work experience

Self-employed

Jan, 2001 — Aug, 2021 (over 20 years)

Edit manuscripts and web content for style, grammar and mechanics, continuity, and accuracy. Clients include The University of Tennessee Press, Scripps Network Interactive, and August House Publications as well as Doctoral Student Dissertations, and Self-Published Authors.

Self-employed

May, 1979 — Jan, 2015 (over 35 years)

Worked full time and freelance as a writer for various publications.
Op-ed Columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel; Commentator for KUAR-FM 89.1; Articles for Health magazine, Knoxville Voice, and Arkansas Times; Staff for Arkansas Democrat and Arkansas Gazette; Op-ed Columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; and Essays in five anthologies

Various

Aug, 1997 — Dec, 2009 (over 12 years)

Adjunct and faculty from middle school to college journalism, each including elements of drafting and revision. Served as advisor to high school newspaper and yearbook.
Schools where I taught were The University of Tennessee School of Journalism and Electronic Media, Roane State Community College, Episcopal Collegiate School, University of Central Arkansas, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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