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Education
Ph.D. in English Studies
Illinois State University | Normal, IL
jeffrey.ludwig76@gmail.com jeffludwig.wordpress.com
2006 2000
M.A. in English
St. Cloud State University | St. Cloud, MN
Professional Experience
Editor
FirstEditing.com | Orlando, FL 2011-Present Serve as an academic, fiction, and technical editor with the largest U.S. and U.K. online editing firm; Provide sample edits for authors before contracting; Proofread, edit, and offer content revisions fiction and non-fiction, manuscripts, in addition to technical formatting in Power Point and Word for a wide range of authors and disciplines; Use Words Track Changes and Adobe Acrobat to provide content editing and manuscript corrections for spelling, mechanics, grammar, style, and citation; Proof manuscript to adhere requested style requirements, including The Chicago Manual of Style th th th (6 Edition), MLA (9 Edition), and APA (6 Edition).
Editor/Proofreader
Parlor Press | Anderson, SC 2011-Present Proofread, edit, and format manuscript copy for Parlor Press authors to see their work into print, Use Words Track Changes to provide spelling, mechanical, grammar, stylistic, and citation corrections to academic writers and scholars; Proof manuscript format to adhere to discipline-specific style requirements, which requires th th th knowledge of The Chicago Manual of Style (16 Edition), MLA (9 Edition), APA (6 Edition), and Parlor Presss Authors Guide.
Online Reviewer
Cengage Learning | Belmont, CA 2011-Present Serve as a content and technical reviewer of online instructional materials for Aplia online; Review for appropriate content, ease of use, grammar and punctuation, and to ascertain if online content meets goals and expectations as instructional materials; Instructional materials include problem sets, multiple choice questions sets, and other variations of question sets used as instructional materials for students
Adjunct Instructor
Heartland Community College | Normal, IL Created and delivered major assignments, lesson plans, and collaborative activities about writing, argumentation, and research writing through source attribution; Worked with the program director to coordinate feedback on course content and instruction; Contributed to program assessment activities.
Academic Honors
University of Denver Faculty Research Fund Grant, for Writing Pedagogy at Oak Park High School, 19131917, July 2008. Faculty Appreciation Award from the Lambda Delta chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, April 2004. Ernest Hemingway Research Grant, received from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, June 2003. The Anna Keaton English Education Scholarship, presented by the Department of English at Illinois State University, April 2002.
Technical Proficiencies
Operating Systems: Windows, MacOS Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher Adobe Design Software: FrameMaker, Photoshop, Dreamweaver Additional Software: Audacity, Camtasia Relay
Professional Affiliations
American Copy Editors Society National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication