Content Writer / Copy Editor

Overview

Looking for full-time work (8 hours/day)

at $4.55/hour ($800.00/month)

Bachelors degree

Last Active

May 3rd, 2023 (358 days ago)

Member Since

October 23rd, 2016

Profile Description

Position: Part-time EditorDuration: January 2017–PresentCompany: Prime Education Inc.Work Description: • Editing English essays written by Korean elementary and middle-school students• Grading students’ formal writing skills in terms of vocabulary, sentence construction, essay structure, and content.• Providing written feedback about how students can improve their English writing skills.
Position: Content WriterDuration: May 2021–February 2022
Company: Upgrade to see actual info
Work Description:
• Researching a provider’s website to gather information about who they are and what they do.
• Using multiple sources to verify a provider’s information.
• Writing a short 75-word snippet about businesses and services in the United States while adhering to the house style guide.• Ensuring the snippet content is not plagiarized.
• Refining the existing style guide through participating in regular feedback sessions and meetings.

Position: Researcher
Duration: January 2020–May 2021
Company: Spadezilla
Work Description:
• Researching online reviews/feedback for Amazon best-selling products under the “Electronics” and “Computers” categories.
• Summarizing the most helpful information and writing up a buyer’s guide that discusses a product's pros, cons, and potential deal-breakers.
• Editing/proofreading website content and ensuring everything adheres to the company’s style and standards.
• Uploading/publishing content using WordPress.
• Updating existing buyer’s guides, as necessary.
• Monitoring technology news online for the purpose of creating buyer’s guides for the latest gadgets in the market.
• Assisting the management in creating publishing guidelines and training materials.

Position: Technology Reporter/Copy Editor
Duration: May 2016–December 2019
Company: Tech Times LLC
Work Description:
• Writing articles covering topics about consumer tech. business tech, and other related fields.
• Copyediting tech and science news stories for grammatical errors, syntax, proper punctuation, inconsistencies, typos, and spelling errors.
• Ensuring stories are well written and logically structured (flow, accuracy, and clarity).
• Fact-checking and raising clarifications/queries if needed.
• Checking stories for plagiarism/scraped content and ensuring the stories do not violate any copyright or other intellectual property right of any third party.
• Making sure images, captions, illustrations, and videos match the article.
• Correcting broken or erroneous links and resizing images or videos when necessary.
• Formatting unpublished articles using basic HTML and CSS coding when needed.
• Sending feedback to reporters regarding the quality of articles/addressing reporter inquiries regarding The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law (also known as AP Stylebook) and Tech Times’ house stylebook.
• Working with the copyediting team to build and further improve the existing house stylebook.
• Evaluating potential reporters/writers for the team.

Position: Senior Copy Editor/Quality Assurance
Duration: September 2012–May 2016
Company: CodeLean Inc./inWriteWork Description:
• Copyediting manuscripts such as dissertations, research papers, website content, articles, and books (fiction and nonfiction).
• Establishing consistency and correcting errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, usage, syntax, capitalization, hyphenation, basic formatting, abbreviations, citations, and treatment of numbers, the goal of which is to enhance the readability of a copy and clearly and accurately convey the ideas of the Upgrade to see actual info also includes conducting basic fact-checking, flagging instances of possible legal problems such as copyright issues, and suggesting recasts to tighten up phrasing.
• Application of style guide (Chicago Manual of Style) rules in punctuation, treatment of numbers(spelled-out versus numerals), abbreviation, hyphenation, capitalization, treatment of words and phrases, documentation, and more, as appropriate or required.
• Proofreading and applying minor corrections to a clean copy, usually after a more thorough editing.
• Functioning as an interim person/supervisor when the team lead is not around. This task includes receiving/delivering files from/to client, generating weekly/monthly reports and feedback, and assigning tasks to editors.

Position: Proofreader/Quality Assurance Specialist, Web Designer, Graphic Artist
Duration: July 2009–June 2012
Company: Yell Adworks Philippines Inc.
Work Description:
As Proofreader/Quality Assurance Specialist:
• Ensures that the print ads and website content produced in the studio are error-free.
• Checks if the artists followed the instructions provided by the client and the copywriter.
• Proofreads content for spelling and grammatical errors.
• Ensures that the design is applicable and matches the type of business of the client.• Suggests design improvements.
• Conducts design reviews and feedback for the artists.
• Cascades updates from the UK and US studios.
As Graphic Artist/Web Designer:
• Produces designs for the clients.
• Builds the website upon design approval.
• Amends the site built as per client request.
Other Functions:
• Handles new hires/trainees and generates their productivity and quality reports (daily, weekly, and monthly).
• Generates the production report of the whole Yell Adworks Philippines studio.
• Ranks all US websites produced/designed by Yell Adworks artists (Google ranking).
• Attends meetings and calls with Yell Adworks US and UK executives.