Sample Sue's work

If the proof of the writing is in the reading, you're in the right place. The following samples provide a taste of Sue's writing and editing. These samples are available as online links, Word documents, and PDFs.

Scroll down for corporate writing and editing, and check out more articles grouped by topic on the right.

Magazine and newspaper writing

Space: the engineering frontier (The Globe and Mail)
Article on space research at universities written in anticipation of the Canadian Space Agency announcing the finalists in its astronaut recruitment. Fascinating research on everything from robots to telescopes.

Outsourcing: Bring in the Pros (Profit Magazine)
Article for Profit magazine on how outsourcing can save companies cash and time through the recession.

Wanted: MBAs that can really do the math (The Globe and Mail)
Article in The Globe and Mail's Special Report on MBA schools focuses on some new finance programs being launched at Canadian universities to train the next generation of financial workers.

How to build your faculty web site for free (University Affairs)
Article in University Affairs magazine on how academics can begin to establish an online presence.

How technology is transforming the lecture (University Affairs)
Cover story on how interactive media is and is not changing the way that professors organize their course material.

Copywriting and Editing

Companies from many sectors depend on Sue to get their messages across. Firms including Research In Motion and CCH Canada have hired Sue as a copywriter, and she's also worked as a writer, editor and proofreader for communications firms such as Beat Studios, Wunderman (Young and Rubicam), Optic Nerve (Publicis) and Tribal Communications.

Samples below from the defunct RAM group provide some samples of Sue's work, but please contact Sue for further samples:

From her early experience as online editor at the former weekly Saturday Night magazine to later gigs as editor of the bi-monthly trade magazine Information Highways, Sue has handled the range of editorial duties from assigning through substantive editing, line editing, copyediting, fact checking, and proofreading.

Here are a couple of samples of the editing, an issue of the trade magazine Information Highways, and its companion electronic newsletter:

• Information Highways magazine sample (PDF)
  
  
• Hot Bytes Electronic newsletter

• The Globe and Mail: Space: the engineering frontier
  
• The Globe and Mail: Wanted: MBAs that can really do the math
  
• University Affairs: How to build your faculty web site for free
  
• University Affairs: How technology is transforming the lecture

• Dreamscapes: Nova Scotia (PDF)
  
• Dreamscapes: Travel technology (PDF)
  
• National Post: The long way 'round to Havana