A Teacher and an Editor
Teaching English
My first career was teaching English in high school, so perhaps the plea by a consulting engineering company to help its engineers write a simple report—or even a simple sentence—was not surprising. Many technical people—and lots of others—need help with writing the English language.
technical writing workshops:
To address this need, I created a technical writing course, focusing on the infrastructure of the English language: grammar, punctuation, voice, sentence structure. The workshop objectives are:
- how to write clearly and concisely using the active voice
- how to organize, write and revise good technical documents
- how to improve the layout and look of company documents
The workshop consists of six two-hour sessions scheduled at two sessions a week. But its structure is flexible so that it can be easily adapted to fit the client’s timetable.
tutoring:
I offer English tutoring to individuals—with either one or two participants—which is especially valuable for professionals whose native tongue is not English.
Editing Manuscripts
And now for something completely different…EIL has been the editor for novels, a fantasy and a memoir.
Clients
- Becky Due – novels, beginning with her first and just finished the sixth
- Jayleen Tran – fantasy
- Daniel Quirouette – memoir