Jennifer Kennedy offers nearly a decade of copyediting, proofreading, and fact-checking experience helping authors polish scholarly texts and journal articles. Her topics of expertise include science, medicine, and law. She has worked on full-length texts on medical genetics and journals such as The American Journal of Dermatopathology, Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, and The Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. She also worked on Lippincott Williams and Wilkins' Current Opinion series, which covers a wide range of medical/science topics from cardiology to oncology. In addition to AMA style, she has also mastered APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in English/Professional Writing, then went on to law school, where she focused on copyright law. She approaches each project with the goal of keeping the author's voice and message intact while communicating as effectively as possible with the intended reader.

Education

Widener University School of Law
Juris Doctorate 2000
Focus: Copyright law

Elizabethtown College
Bachelor of Arts 1995
Major: Professional writing

Experience

Freelance Copyeditor/Proofreader
Perform freelance copyediting and proofreading (APA, MLA, Chicago, CSE, and AMA style) for academic publishers such as Oxford University Press and Wolters Kluwer.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Journal Production Editor
Tracked and managed manuscript for workload of numerous journals and textbooks from receipt to publication.
Supervised copyediting of freelancers and copyedited manuscripts myself.
Developed relationships with Editors-in-Chief to ensure publications met their goals.
Partial list of assigned materials included The Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The American Journal of Dermatopathology, and the Current Opinion series, in which each journal focuses on a medical specialty.

Center for Professional Education, Paoli, Pennsylvania
Copyeditor/Proofreader
Edited manuscripts for company that offered seminars to accountants and legal professionals. Also proofread company advertisements and wrote copy for various company publications.