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Résumé for MorningStar Editing’s

Cassie Armstrong

 Skills

  • Copyediting, proofreading, line editing, substantive editing/rewriting, and writing
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    op-notch organizational and communication skills
  • Outstanding ability to multitask and meet deadlines
  • Ability to work independently or in a group situation, with a diverse clientele
  • Critical reading, analysis, and evaluation skills
  • Editing and proofreading skills for print and Web
  • Research expertise
  • Ability to organize, develop, and present ideas clearly and concisely
  • Ability to interview all types of people about any subject


 

Editorial Experience

 

Additional Experience

  • University classroom and online English instructor
  • Reviewer and evaluator of textbooks under university consideration
  • Teacher of English as a second language at the university level
  • Substitute teacher and special education substitute teacher, grades K–10
  • Bookseller
  • Business writer and investigative reporter
  • Freelance writer and research assistant

 

Education and Certification

  • Master of arts degree, English, California State University, Sacramento
  • Additional coursework in education and English, California State University, Sacramento
  • Bachelor of arts degree, literature, University of Arizona
  • Lifetime California Community College teaching credential, language arts and literature
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Textbook Evaluations and Acknowledgments

  • Evaluated Inventing Arguments, by John Mauk and John Mertz, Thomson Wadsworth Publishing, 2006; see acknowledgments page
  • Evaluated Andrea Lunsford’s third edition of Everything’s An Argument, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004; see acknowledgments page
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