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Janet MacMillan | wordsmith | editor | proofreader | researcher
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Qualifications
  • Project Management – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading 
  • Editing with Word – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading 
  • Turn Your Editing Career into Teaching – Editorial Freelancers Association (webinar)
  • Author–editor relations – Editors’ Association of Canada course, Toronto
  • Legal publishing, professional development day – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading  PD day – London
  • Proofreading on PDFs – Editors’ Association of Canada course, Toronto
  • Grammar Myths and Woes – Editors’ Association of Canada course, Toronto
  • Eight-Step Editing – Editors’ Association of Canada course, Toronto
  • Scholarly Editing – Editors’ Association of Canada course, Toronto
  • Indexing A to Z – Editors’ Association of Canada course, Toronto
  • English literature course – Cambridge University
  • Fiction: The Editing Process, Editors’ Association of Canada course, Toronto
  • Editing for Education Markets, Editors’ Association of Canada course, Toronto
  • Certificate in Publishing (post-graduate course) – Ryerson University, Toronto (Courses completed: Introduction to Publishing I; Copy Editing; Substantive and Line Editing; Sales and Marketing for Book Publishers; and Publishing in an Electronic Age)
  • Proofreading, Editors’ Association of Canada course, Toronto
  • Italian language course – West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds​
  • Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma – Suffolk College, Ipswich 
  • Local history course – City University, London 
  • Law Society Final Examination Course – Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds 
  • LLB – Leeds University 
  • BA Hons History, Politics and international relations – Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Conferences and speaking engagements
  • Café workshop for new and aspiring editors – Editors' Association of Canada, Toronto branch (mentorship) – 2011
  • Estimating and negotiating – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, Norfolk branch – 2014
  • For the not-so-senior editor – Editors' Association of Canada conference – 2014
  • Editing internationally and with clients worldwide – Editors' Association of Canada global conference – 2015
  • Hiring other freelancers: expanding your business with colleagues (panel) – Editors' Association of Canada global conference – 2015
  • Estimating and negotiating – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, Cambridge branch – 2015
  • Style sheets – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, Cambridge branch – 2016
  • Style sheets – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, Cloud Club – 2016
  • Working with students: myths, ethics, and guidelines – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, Cambridge branch – 2016
  • Working with students: myths, ethics, and guidelines – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, Cloud Club – 2016
  • Efficiency tools and working efficiently – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, part 1, Cloud Club – January 2017 
  • Efficiency tools and working efficiently – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, part 2, Cloud Club – February 2017 
  • Efficiency tools and working efficiently – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading , Cambridge branch – March 2017
  • Working with students – Editors' Association of Canada conference – 2017
  • Reach for the stars: knowing your worth, setting rates and  more (panel) – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading conference – 2017
  • Working in a collective (panel) and triage editing – ​ Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading conference  – 2018​
  • Training and continuing professional development (panel) – Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading – Toronto mini-conference – 2018
  • Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading – Toronto mini-conference and workshop – 2019
  • Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading conference  – 2020

Teaching
  • Copy editing – Queen's University (Canada), Professional Studies, Faculty of Education – autumn 2018​
  • Stylistic editing – Queen's University (Canada), Professional Studies, Faculty of Education – summer 2018
  • Stylistic editing – Queen's University (Canada), Professional Studies, Faculty of Education – summer 2017​
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