Freelance editor/proofreader since 1990: Clients: Academic Press, Addison-Wesley, AP Professional, Blackwell Publishing, Newgen North America, Elsevier, Little, Brown, Spinner Publications, among others. Work: trade nonfiction; science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM); life sciences; computer science; economics/business; various subjects for Stanford University Press and Temple University Press.Guiding principles:1. The written word / Should be clean as bone / Clear as light / Firm as stone. -- unknown2. Care should be taken, not that the reader may understand, but that he must understand. -- Quintilian3. Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for. -- J. Barzun4. In the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. -- S.T. Coleridge5. The struggle of the great writer is to learn to write as he would talk. -- unknown6. Prefer geniality to grammar. -- H.W. Fowler7. Every piece of writing has tone...formal, informal....Once you m