Do you need to produce beautiful documents in MS Word but just can’t get it right? Do you struggle with tables, diagrams, tables of contents, headers, footers, numbering and tables of figures? Would you like to hyperlink cross references and never get it right? Do you distribute your documents in PDF but need to be able to produce updates and new versions? Yes? Then you need the "Fiona magic". Drop your email below or in a DM. Alternatively, pop me a note on fiona@englishandstuff with your brief and I’ll send you either my rate card or a quote. Oh, and I will also panelbeat (edit) your documents for grammar, voice and tone, whether it’s a “simple” letter or a complex thesis. Clients also call that the “Fiona magic…”
English Writing and Research
Writing and Editing
McGregor, Western Cape 130 followers
Writer for hire
About us
Writer for hire Online (remote) English writing and research services I offer a range of online English content writing services. These include research, content writing, editing – which I call panel beating. I also offer writing coaching and supporting foreign learners of English. I specialise in – - writing conversational English that is second language English reader and SEO friendly - explaining complicated technical content – like medical and pharmaceutical “stuff” so the customer understands - Syndicated research for articles and reports Provide a brief and/or topic and I will research and draft the report to your requirements. Research can be interview-based (primary research) or desk-top (secondary research). These projects are costed on a case-by-case basis. Ownership of the copyright is determined at time of contracting.
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https://englishandstuff.online
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- Writing and Editing
- Company size
- 1 employee
- Headquarters
- McGregor, Western Cape
- Type
- Self-Employed
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- writing, blogging, research, English UK, English US, grammar, blog, articles, content, plain English, and plain English
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The Sandbag House
McGregor, Western Cape, ZA
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A mini rant - not about writing - but rather about philanthropy. A new direction. I hope.
Word Warrior and Writer for hire: English long form writing and research specialist
Having been involved in and/or associated with non-profits all my working life, I've seen "philanthropy" evolve. Yes, I’ve used inverted commas because there was a time when philanthropic giving was not. Philanthropic. Nor giving. I speak from the perspective of the beneficiary more than as the benefactor, because over the past nearly four decades I have moved from naïve volunteer to jaded, disillusioned volunteer leader and back to volunteer (still with a healthy dose of jaundice). Much of this was because philanthropy is (or was), for so many, a legitimate way of dodging tax and/or feeding ego, which, I’d argue, is hardly philanthropic. The second, but related reason is because the competition – yes that is the right word – was so fierce that the barriers simply became insurmountable for little, grassroots organisations that needed – still do – the help most. Usually they are the ones that, in their “innocence”, actually spend the money on what they say they’ll spend the money (on). They are the ones that you can trust. It’s the established organisations (with apologies for the generalisation) where one needs to do most due diligence – your own. Not doing so, and trying to embed that function into an application, is in effect, turning the applicant into an adjudicator of their own submission. Referee and player? Really? That creates enormous scope for a chasm between what makes its way into the submission and what is the reality on the ground. I know. I lived it. I left that organisation jaded (and physically ill) as, ethically, I must walk the talk and then, I could, in all conscience, not. I moved on, and into other organisations, in different roles – often volunteer leadership – and which obviously included seeking philanthropic funding. I watched the donors constantly raising the barriers for the organisations they purported to want to support. I also saw some of those same organisations (and had to help at least one) fold their tents – to the detriment of the beneficiaries. That philanthropists are removing the barriers (or should I say, bureaucracy), is heaven sent. Yes, there is risk. Enormous risk, I acknowledge. At the risk of another cliché: it’s wheat and chaff, and whose job is it to thresh the wheat? The wheat, the farmer or the baker? It’s the farmer’s job to deliver threshed wheat and for whoever’s going to add value – turn it to four to make and bake the bread – to do the rest. I have to hope that with this shift, philanthropy is returning to what philanthropy really is: love of humankind and the planet we inhabit. https://lnkd.in/dyQmHnvR