Laurie Ongley

Madison, CT USA
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Professional Experience

Editor, proofreader, and project manager with diverse content experience. 15 years as editor of the Yale course catalog; experience editing dictionaries and textbooks. Specialties in music, German, history, and turning academic jargon into standard English.

Expertise

Copy Editor
15 Years
Editor
18 Years
Other, Specify
3 Years

Specialty

Arts & Humanities
18 Years
Education
15 Years
Music
18 Years

Industries


Academia Administration
15 Years
Book Publishing Trade/B2B
5 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

18 Years

Other Work History

Full-time staff jobs at Yale University and Oxford University Press

Foreign Language Skills

Fluent German; intermediate French; basic Italian and Latin

Computer Skills

Microsoft Word and Excel; Adobe Acrobat and InDesign; HTML

Equipment

Laptop (PC and Mac); electronic piano keyboard; digital camera

References

Available on request

Showcase

Authored articles

Performance practice
(Early Music 5/1/1999)
An article I wrote about 18th-century musical performance practice in Dresden.

Academic editing

Yale College Programs of Study
(Yale University 7/1/2015)
Yale undergraduate course catalog