TINA HARDY is a professional copy editor and proofreader who specializes in the editing of scholarly works, specifically academic and student documents. Many of her clients are authors whose first language is not English.
She has edited hundreds of academic titles and has been involved with dozens of scholarly journals, primarily in the fields of psychology, scientific measurement, and communication.
Tina has been repeatedly recognized for her ability to grasp complex concepts and for expertly balancing between reader comprehension and instruction. She is an expert in Chicago and APA formatting.
* Copyediting, line editing, and proofreading (nonfiction)
* Specialties: scholarly/academic manuscripts, education, psychology, communication, and scientific measurement
* Website copyediting and proofreading
* ESL editing
* Developmental editing (nonfiction)
* Formatting: Chicago Manual of Style, APA 5th and 6th editions
If you are writing a scholarly article, academic essay, thesis, dissertation, or research paper, Tina will ensure that your grammar, spelling, punctuation, tense, and so forth, are 100% correct.
She will review your document and ensure total compliance with your style of choice, using her extensive expertise in Chicago or APA style as her guide. She will work to mold your document into the appropriate form, ensuring items such as headings, abbreviations, technical terms, citations, references, and so forth, all conform to the appropriate style.
She will work with you to ensure that your word choice and word form flow naturally, so that each sentence builds on the next to advance your argument in a logical, consistent, and cohesive manner, all while keeping your natural voice intact.
This will result in a document that is precise, exact, and
flawless in its message and presentation.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Cactus Communications – Trevose, PA/Mumbai, India/Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Copy Editor
Electronic editing of scholarly materials for ESL authors.
Sage Publications, Inc. – Thousand Oaks, CA
Copy Editor
Electronic editing of manuscripts, working with authors and editors to ensure that projects meet strict content, style, and print specifications.
CQ Press – Washington, DC
Copy Editor
Electronic editing of manuscripts, working with authors and editors to ensure that projects meet strict content, style, and print specifications.
The Murfreesboro Pulse – Murfreesboro, TN
Copy Editor
Electronic editing of paper and website.
The Kaleidoscope Group, L.L.C. – Chicago
Copy Editor
Electronic editing of training materials.
Cancer 101 Inc. – New York
Copy Editor
Electronic editing of company materials, including brochures and pamphlets.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. – Mahwah, NJ
Copy Editor
Electronic editing of academic journals and manuscripts.
Writing
Published articles include “Back to Work: Returning After Maternity Leave,” in the December 2001 issue of Pregnancy Magazine and “Appreciate Southern Hospitality,” in the October 2, 2008, issue of The Murfreesboro Pulse.
Other Employment
Cadmus Communications, Inc. – Charlotte, NC
Proofreader
Proofreading of financial documents for a variety of clients under very tight deadlines; organizing documents and preparing them for printing. Edited documents included annual reports for various banks, including First Union, Wachovia, and Bank of America; bank brochures; and legal documents.
G-Force Advertising & Marketing, Inc. – Charlotte, NC
Operations Manager
Managing projects that moved through the agency; purchasing printing; creating agency systems, including office procedures and customer service manuals; writing; proofing copy, and printing proofs; creating estimates; meeting with clients; distributing purchase orders; monitoring accounts payable; maintaining all office equipment, computer hardware, and software, paper and computer files, databases, artwork, etc.; conducting market research; and any other duties required to assist clients and maintain the smooth operation of the agency.
The Virginian-Pilot – Norfolk, VA
Correspondent
Managing a one-person satellite news bureau on the Eastern Shore of Virginia for a large, metropolitan, daily newspaper based in Norfolk, Virginia, specializing in environmental matters and the law. Creating an extensive contact base in the large, two-county area, and seeking out and reporting on all newsworthy events on a daily basis.
Education:
Bachelors Degree in Mass Communication (Journalism Major/Public Relations Minor)
Partial list of books edited/proofread:
The Art of Educational Leadership
Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Science, Grades K-8
The Win-Win Classroom
Schoolwide Action Research for Professional Learning
Eight Essentials for Empowered Teaching and Learning, K–8
English Grammar Instruction That Works: Developing Language Skills for All Learners
Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives
What Every Principal Needs to Know About Special Education
The Personnel Evaluation Standards: How to Assess Systems for Evaluating Educators
The CurriculumBridge, 3rd Edition
Assessing English Language Learners
Becoming a Legendary Teacher: To Instruct and Inspire
8 Steps to Classroom Management Success: A Guide for Teachers of Challenging Students
What Successful Teachers Do
Facilitator’s Guide to What Successful Teachers Do
Understanding and Engaging Adolescents
Secondary Lenses on Learning
Reading and Writing in Science: Tools to Develop Disciplinary Literacy
Differentiating for the Young Child
Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts
A Developmental Approach to Educating Young Children
The Adjunct Faculty Handbook
Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action
Making ALL Kids Smarter
Preventing Long-Term ELs: Transforming Schools to Meet Core Standards
Homelessness Comes to School
Encyclopedia of Religion in America
The Practice of Authentic PLCs: A Guide to Effective Teacher Teams
Collaborate, Communicate, Differentiate!
Encyclopedia of Religion in America
Automated Essay Scoring: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
Crime and Local Television News: Dramatic, Breaking, and Live from the Scene
Current Issues in Reading Comprehension and Assessment
Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood: Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources
Engineering and Medicine: Issues in Minimally Invasive Procedures
English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom
Evaluating Children’s Writing: Noncognitive Aspects of Developing High Ability
Multimedia and Virtual Reality
Professional Feature Writing
Reclaiming the Local in Language, Policy, and Practice
Representation, Memory, and Development: Essays in Honor of Jean Mandler
Summer Learning: Research, Policies, and Programs
The Family Context of Parenting in Children’s Adaptation to Elementary School
Tip-of-the-Tongue States: Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Lexical Retrieval
Partial list of academic journals containing edited/proofread articles:
Applied Developmental Science
Applied Measurement in Education
Applied Neuropsychology
Atlantic Journal of Communication
Children’s Services
Developmental Neuropsychology
Discourse Processes
Educational Psychologist
Ethics & Behavior
Health Communication
Human Performance
Identity
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
International Journal of Testing
Journal of Consumer Psychology
Journal of Family Communication
Journal of Language, Identity, and Education
Journal of Research on Adolescence
Measurement
Mind, Culture, and Activity
Multicultural Perspectives
Peace and Conflict
Personality & Social Psychology Review
Structural Equation Modeling
Teaching and Learning in Medicine
The International Journal of Aviation Psychology
The Journal of Media Economics
Feedback "I had the pleasure of working with Tina Hardy in her role as copyeditor for my recent book, The Practice of Authentic PLCs: A Guide to Effective Teacher Teams (Corwin, 2011). Tina's attention to detail, her boundless knowledge of proper form, format, usage and grammar, combined with her willingness to work with me in preserving the heart of every misstated sentence made it a painless and constructive experience to work together. If I have any say at all, Tina Hardy will be my copyeditor on my next title." - Daniel Venables, Executive Director, Center for Authentic PLCs, Author of The Practice of Authentic PLCs: A Guide to Effective Teacher Teams "Tina Hardy is a quality professional copy editor with an enormous understanding of the concepts and extraordinary attention to even the smallest details. I would confidently recommend her services to those who want their projects manicured properly. She's on my extremely short list of trusted editors for anything I'm involved with." - Stephen Thomas, The Pioneer News "Tina Hardy was always prompt and thorough in her copy editing work for The Murfreesboro Pulse. She has a friendly personality and is easy to communicate with. Although many of the Pulse’s contributors are not professional journalists (some were having their first piece of writing published; others were not exactly good with their use of written language), she took their work and polished it to professional standards and helped maintain a high-quality local arts and entertainment publication." - Bracken Mayo, Owner/Publisher/Editor in Chief of The Murfreesboro Pulse “Dear Tina: We have thoroughly enjoyed working with you. You are so skilled at making recommendations, asking questions, and eliciting creativity from us. Your thoroughness and thoughtfulness in editing made our revisions easy and logical. We sincerely hope we get to work with you again. We will ask for you!” - Margarita Calderón, Johns Hopkins University, Coauthor (with Liliana Minaya-Rowe) of Preventing Long-Term ELs "Tina was a pleasure to work with on my recent textbook. She was prompt, professional, and offered interesting and useful comments and ideas. I look forward to working with her again." - Anna Leon-Guerrero, Author of Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action "Tina is remarkably knowledgeable, responsive, and a pleasure to work with. Our manuscript was edited quickly and painlessly, and we look forward “Tina Hardy’s editing skills are outstanding. Her ability to revise in a way that captures the original intentions of the author is top-notch!” -
Maria Grant, Director, Secondary Teacher Education Program,
California State University, Fullerton,
Coauthor (with Douglas Fisher) of Reading and Writing in Science: Tools to Develop Disciplinary Literacy "I am the author of the book, Eight Steps to Classroom Management Success, published by Corwin Press in 2009. Tina Hardy was the copy editor that worked with me on this project. It was a pleasure to work with her and I found her knowledge of APA style to be very extensive. I enjoyed working with her and would highly recommend her to any author working on a project that requires APA style." - George M. Kapalka, Department of Psychological Counseling, Monmouth University, Author of Eight Steps to Classroom Management Success: A Guide for Teachers of Challenging Students “Tina, congratulations and thanks a million for your skill, thoroughness, and tact in working on this complicated project. You did an incredible job of wrapping your mind around all of its components, and have made a real contribution to the overall product.” - Catherine Miles Grant, Author of Secondary Lenses on Learning "I had the good fortune to link up with Tina Hardy at precisely the time when I was unable to see through my writing and identify those crucial moments when meaning was lost. These are those elusive ideas you understand well, yet they reveal themselves when the manuscript is done and resist your best efforts to bring clarity. Tina’s approach was timely, painstaking and very effective in helping me get close to a goal of effective writing I strive for, which is that clear writing reflects clear thinking. Tina helped me think." - Graeme Sullivan, Teachers College, Columbia University, Author of Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts “Tina Hardy is a writing editor, which means she understands the business from both sides of the page. Her professionalism is reflected in her attention to detail and her dependability. Tina’s positive attitude and her adjustment to change make her a pleasure to work with and a joy to recommend.” - Cindy Phiffer, Writer/editor and former president of the Tennessee Writers Alliance |
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