Hope Rutgens Email & Phone Number

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

• Revise, edit, and correct online courses in partner-chosen learning management systems using WYSIWYG HTML tools and snippets.
• Edits online course/module materials for quality, consistency, accuracy, conformity to standards, and effective use of language.
• Copyedits and proofs a variety of on-screen content, checking for and correcting errors in grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation, as well as technical consistency in capitalization, font usage, numerals, and.
• Revises content for accuracy, consistency, style, clarity, and academic-level appropriateness.
• Support and advise on the development of interactive learning objects including technical implications, accessibility, and implementation within a course.
• Manage competing projects, deadlines, and resource implications and communicate these effectively to manager.

Illinois State University

• Designed complex interior for FC2 (Fiction Collective 2) novel Drain Songs by Grant Maierhofer
• Typeset Drain Songs using Adobe InDesign CC 2018
• Proofread and line edited Drain Songs using The Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.) and added edits to PDF using Adobe Acrobat’s Comments feature.
• Created and checked several rounds of page proofs for the novel using Adobe Acrobat Pro
• Entered edits from proofreader and author into layout
• Prepared and tagged Drain Songs manuscript for Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication (LOC CIP) program, submitted the information using ECIP interface

Normal First United Methodist Church

• Edited website using WordPress
• Wrote articles and blurbs for promotional purposes
• Wrote blogs for website
• Researched information on various topics in the bible to facilitate discussions during services
• Co-lead worship services on Wednesday nights
• Advertised for Merge through Preview activities by giving out coffee and information

Publications Unit At Illinois State University

• Collaborated with three other individuals and the PRESS 254 editor to produce the chapbook Voids Before the Abyss by Michael Gibson Wollitz
• Completed a mechanical editing checklist to prepare the chapbook’s text for layout
• Copy edited the manuscript with the guidance of The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.)
• Discussed and negotiated edits collaboratively with group members and prepared an edited PDF using the Comments feature of Adobe Acrobat Pro
• Worked with PRESS 254 editor and group members to conceptualize a cover design
• Sketched a design for an interior layout using Adobe InDesign CS6

Peru, Illinois

My duties included helping customers find what they were looking for, working the register to ring customers up, and keeping the store clean and organized.

English, Publishing, 3.8 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Merge at ISU Wesley, Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor Society)

Education record

Activities and Societies: Book Club, Renaissance Club, Polar Plunge