Margaret Yap Email & Phone Number

United States

• Supported the development, coordination, adjudication, and processing of official DoD documents, such as DoD directives, DoD instructions, and administrative instructions, often in highly pressurized time frames.
• Edited and proofread all government documentation related to the creation or review of issuances to ensure accuracy, clarity, and conformance to templates and standards.
• Tracked the currency of published issuances and creation of new DoD Issuances.

- Worked in a team environment with other editors and analysts to review and edit DoD issuances (policy documents) for clarity, format, consistency, grammar, syntax, adherence to Plain Language requirements, and compliance with other DoD guidance and procedures- Validated and ensured quality control over all aspects of issuance packages- Worked with.

- Edited and proofread education testing materials; proposals; user, scoring, and style guides; presentations; technical reports; performance-level descriptors; directions for administration; and other documents for spelling, grammar, clarity, and concision- Used desktop publishing and communication skills to work with other editors and editorial.

- Proofread and copyedited projects digitally and by hand for accuracy, grammar, concision, and punctuation- Monitored and updated project schedules; communicated with project managers and designers about projects- Copyedited and proofread web pages submitted through the content management system; produced web articles- Prioritized quick-turnaround walk-up.

- Expanded Education Week Commentary’s presence on Twitter and Facebook- Wrote promotions for online Opinion activity for print issues- Produced Commentaries and letters to the editor for edweek.org, updated the Commentary homepage- Edited and assisted in producing Opinion blog posts and installments and Commentary collections- Managed Commentary.