Brett Lockwood (Word Bytes)    Services 2011
SERVICES  Editing, indexing, proofreading

Member Society of Editors (Victoria) since 1981
        Registered (accredited) Indexer, Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers since 1983
              President, Society of Editors (Victoria) 2003—2005
                      Member, Society of Editors (Victoria) Management Committee, 1994—2007
                       

Summary of services

Editing

Proofreading

Indexing

Software assessment / user guide authoring

Summary of services

• Editing
• Indexing
• Proofreading
• Project management
• Software assessment / testing & software user guide documentation authoring / editing

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Editing

Clients include :

Government bodies		Publishing and corporate sector
Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet		Curriculum Corporation (Federal Government education publisher)
Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development		Heinemann (Federal Government education publisher)
Department of Human Services		Telstra Corporation Limited
Public Record Office Victoria		Penguin Books
Department of Victorian Communities		Oxford University Press
National Gallery of Victoria		CPA Australia
Australian Council for Educational Research		Blackwell
University of Melbourne		Reed Educational & Professional Publishing
Australian National Training Authority		Eastern House / Tertiary Press
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists		Routledge & Kegan Paul
Australian Defence Forces		Allen & Unwin
Australian Building and Construction Commissioner		Sitepoint Books
Victorian Department of Justice		Pearson Education Australia
Victorian Secondary School Sector

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Proofreading

• Proofreading of all publications: any type, any length.
• Research reports, demographic reports, educational texts, general monographs, policy and planning reports (incl. statistical-based), corporate documentation.

Examples:

• All of the project work listed on the 'Project examples' page have included proofreading.

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Indexing

Examples:
Social Sciences / Humanities
Social Self, Global Culture (Oxford University Press, Melbourne) (225 pages).
      Introductory university text for sociology students.

Information Technology
Stepping Through Office 2000 (Tertiary Press / Eastern House) (1384 pages).

Information & Software Technology: A project-based approach (Pearson Education) (360 pages).

Food Technology First (Pearson Education) (285 pages).

One Land Many Stories (Pearson Education) (2nd edn, 369 pages).

Industry
Process for Training Package Development (Australian National Training Authority) (195 pages).

Indexing qualification:

• Registered (accredited) Indexer, Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (awarded 1983).

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Software assessment / user guide authoring

Assessment and testing of educational and corporate software and user documentation. Identification of problem areas and malfunctioning/problematic software routines. Liaison with software developers. Writing/editing of user documentation.

Examples:
Australian Council for Educational Research
Adolescent Coping Scale. Software for use in Australian schools and by psychologists and counsellors to assess coping strategies used by adolescents in dealing with personal problems. Based on two questionnaires producing aggregate coping strategy scores in both numeric and chart form.
Brief details: Software testing and development consultant for conversion of product from MS-DOS based FoxPro application to Windows GUI-based application. Writing of user guide. Adolescent Coping Scale programming language—Visual Basic. Database engine—MS Access. Graphics engine—Crystal Reports.
More information available here.

CPA Australia (for Moore Stephens Services Pty Ltd)
Testing and assessment of software, and advising on Quality Assurance process for BCPKickstart© (Business Continuity Planning software).
Tasks: Testing of software routines and identification of Visual Basic programming problems, testing and identification of problematic data export facilities. Desktop editing and assessment of BCPKickstart User Guide and associated documentation. BCPKickstart programming language—Visual Basic. Database engine—MS Access. Graphics engine—MS Snapshot.
Marketer's overview: BCPKickstart© is an easy to use Window based tool aimed at organisations wanting to develop and maintain formal and comprehensive business continuity plans but that are low on time and resources. The BCPKickstart will help your organisation to create a framework for:
 *Prioritising Critical Business Areas
 *Assessing Damages & Communicating Disasters
 *Developing Disaster Scenarios & Recovery Procedures
 *Assigning Disaster Recovery Teams
 *Compiling Hardware/Software Registers , etc.
More information and BCPKickstart© brochure (PDF) available here.

brett@melbpc.org.au