Marissa Yates Email & Phone Number

Avon, IN, US

Plainfield, Indiana, United States

Avon, Indiana, United States

• Proofread documents for accuracy, clarity, and grammar; correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
• Communicate and collaborate with clients to ensure projects meet deadlines and exceed quality expectations.
• Query unclear wording or inconsistencies in style and suggest changes to improve clarity or style of writing.
• Ensure content and format are consistent with CMOS or other requested style guide.

• Edit and proofread curriculum content for thousands of lesson plans, hundreds of exams, and numerous textbooks across 3 continents of writers serving grades K–10 in Liberia, Nigeria, India, Rwanda, and Kenya.
• Design and co-author first-ever Instructional Design department-wide foundational resources, including a comprehensive House Style Guide, Proofreading Checklist, and Continuing Education Editing Training for writers.
• Provide urgent, sensitive, and asynchronous feedback to address writer quality without impacting deadlines, often involving independent problem-solving when working across time zones.
• Collaborate with both Instructional Design and Production teams to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting 100% of deadlines, being flexible to government requests and changes, and exceeding quality.
• Analyze formatting and styling of lesson plans and exams and utilize editing tools such as Track Changes in Microsoft Word and PDF Editor in Adobe Acrobat to guarantee proper display in both CMS and print while.
• Advise team members on NewGlobe-specific terms and styles, territory-specific language for 14 different territories, and British English spelling and grammar conventions.

• Proofread manuscript and corrected formatting and OCR errors directly in the CMS to enhance quality of affordable law school casebooks published by MIT Press.
• Cross-checked manuscripts against original source court case PDFs to guarantee accuracy.
• Collaborated with Project Manager to prioritize edits and meet deadlines without compromising quality.

• Proofread manuscript and corrected formatting and OCR errors directly in the CMS to enhance quality of affordable law school casebooks published by MIT Press.
• Cross-checked manuscripts against original source court case PDFs to guarantee accuracy.
• Collaborated with Project Manager to prioritize edits and meet deadlines without compromising quality.