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About Sheila O'Kelly
I have
extensive writing and editing experience
on national newspapers and specialist periodicals including:
sub-editor on the
Irish Times
Finance pages;
senior sub-editor on the
Sunday Business Post
;
freelance
writer and sub-editor
; and
assistant editor, the
Garda Review
.
I have also:
trained with the
UK Plain English Campaign
and
received their Plain English Diploma.
I am one of the leading
experts in plain English
in Ireland;
I edit documents up to
plain English standards
for a wide variety of public and private sector clients;
I give
one-day in-house training
courses on 'How to write in plain English';
I am
Editor of
Diabetes Ireland
, the journal of the Diabetes Federation of Ireland; and
I am
Editor of
Cancer Professional
, a specialist journal for professionals working in oncology.
Special skills
I’ve many years of experience in
interviewing
health
and business experts; and gathering people’s life stories.
I do
extensive research
before interviewing someone,
ask intelligent questions and I don’t make assumptions.
I‘m an expert at
sequence and structure
and that
makes each feature readable and informative.
Expert in:
Recording and downloading sound files (for meetings);
QuarkXpress;
PhotoShop;
Hermes;
3B2;
Microsoft Office;
ImageCafe;
Audacity;
Apple Macs;
and
PCs.
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