Vigorous writing is concise.
—William Strunk Jr.

JANIS BARR began her editing career in 1986, working mainly for publishing companies and professional organizations. She specializes in manuals, textbooks for schools, training and educational materials for adults, and guides for teachers and trainers.

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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
—L.M. Montgomery

AUDREY McCLELLAN has worked as an editor and indexer since 1984. Her editorial specialty is books, both non-fiction and fiction, and she has also edited university course materials (print and online), policy papers, annual reports, and theses. She has indexed trade books and textbooks. She enjoys working with authors to help them organize material and express their message as clearly as possible, and she has a flair for proofreading, catching those elusive errors that everyone else has missed.

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Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
—Ingrid Bengis

GEORGINA MONTGOMERY has been a professional editor and writer since 1982, working for a wide range of provincial, national, and international business and government clients. Her projects include annual reports, scientific and technical reports, public discussion papers, manuals, training materials, textbooks, and travel guides. She teaches writing through Words at Work Business Communications and has written a non-fiction book as well as numerous freelance articles on a range of topics. In 1999 she received an award for editorial excellence from the Editors’ Association of Canada.

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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
—Edwin Schlossberg

LOUISE OBORNE is an editor and writer who has worked for publishing, business, and government clients for more than 25 years. Her expertise ranges from editing technical reports, textbooks, and children’s books to writing manuals, training materials, reports, assessments, and non-fiction books. She also teaches business writing and editing through Words at Work Business Communications.

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Writing is like a good watch—it should run smoothly and have no extra parts.
—William Zinsser

FRANCES PECK has been editing and writing since 1990. Based in Ottawa until 2005, she has worked with many federal departments and national associations, editing, writing, and rewriting materials ranging from annual reports to fact sheets, websites to newsletters, investigative reports to policies. She specializes in stylistic editing, copy editing, and plain language writing and rewriting, and writes freelance articles on language. She has also taught writing and editing courses, mainly through the University of Ottawa, since 1986. Two of her courses are now being offered through the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing as part of the SFU Summer Publishing Workshops.

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Order is a lovely thing.
—Anna Hempstead Branch

BARBARA TOMLIN has been an editor for more than 25 years. She has worked for book and magazine publishers, corporations, professional associations, universities, and government. Her skills include substantive editing, stylistic editing, and writing. She has a background in educational publishing and a particular interest in medical editing. Since 2003 she has been the copy editor for the British Columbia Medical Journal. She also gives editing workshops and teaches proofreading and copy editing courses in the Writing and Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University.

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How forcible are right words!
—Job 6:25

RUTH WILSON began her editing career in 1981 and has worked on a broad range of publications, with a particular interest in business, legal, and reference texts and specializing in plain language editing. She has also worked for several international organizations, editing publications focused on development, open learning, and distance education. She leads workshops on all aspects of editing and teaches in the Writing and Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University and for the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing as part of the SFU Summer Publishing Workshops. She also tutors a distance education course on effective writing for the World Health Organization.

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