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PORTFOLIO
If the proof of the writing is in the reading, you're at the right place. Sue's past editorial clients have included:
The Globe
and Mail, University Affairs, PROFIT magazine, Canadian Business Online,
National Post, Quill and Quire, Literary Review of Canada, Ryerson Alumni
Magazine, Franchise Canada, Dreamscapes, Chatelaine, NUVO, Wish, The Beaver,
Career Insider Magazines, Information Highways.
The following samples provide a taste of Sue's writing and editing work. These works are variously available as online links and PDFs.
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.
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
Crop
residue: waste not want not (University Affairs)
Article on commercializing crop residue
Copywriting
and editing
Companies from many sectors have depended on Sue and CodeWord Communications
to get their messages across. Sue corporate clients have included:
- MagStar
- Research
In Motion
- CCH Canada
- LCBO
- e-Content
Institute
- Hart House
- HKA Data
- The RAM
Group
Sue has also worked as a writer, editor and proofreader for several communications firms including Beat Studios, Wunderman (Young and Rubicam), Optic Nerve (Publicis) and Tribal Communications.
Samples below from the defunct technology company The RAM group provide some samples of Sue's work. Please contact Sue for further samples.
Brochure
- The RAM Group (PDF)
Brochure about a product for The RAM Group technology company
Sell
Sheet - The RAM Group (Word doc)
Sell Sheet about a CISCO product for The RAM Group technology company
Case
study - The RAM Group (Word doc)
Case study about a product solution for The RAM Group technology company
Editing
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 editing samples, including an issue of the trade magazine Information Highways, and its companion electronic newsletter:
-
Poets&Writers Magazine: The writer's
web site - The Globe and Mail: Working without a net? (on data backup)
- The Globe and Mail: How to tame an overloaded inbox (on collaboration software)
- Profit
magazine: Outsourcing:
Bring in the Pros
- Canadian Business Online (CBO): Healthy Leadership
- CBO:
Sneaking
up on the Enterprise
(on Web 2.0 innovations) - Profit magazine: Full circle feedback (on 360 performance reviews)
- Profit magazine: Exporting to China
- Canadian Business Online: What's old is new again (QuestAir CEO profile)
- Quill and Quire - Book review
-
ARTICLES IN PDF
-
Ryerson Alumni magazine: Listen up
(profile on music industry exec) -
HR Professional sample
-
Franchise Canada : Big Classic
(cover story on a Wendy's Franchisee) -
Dreamscapes: Nova Scotia
-
Dreamscapes: Travel technology
- PLUS magazine: Book reviews (PDF)
- Wish:
On time, every
time
- NUVO:
The business
of nodding off
(sleep products) - The Beaver:
Archiving
Saturday Night
Further samples available upon request