I had put together a textbook for a class I was teaching at Colorado State University. Although the book contained a lot of useful material, students complained about the writing in the book. Incomplete and garbled sentences, poor punctuation, paragraphs that were difficult to follow and so on. I tried without success to bring the writing up to an acceptable standard. Fortunately, I was able to find Bonnie. I hired her to go through each chapter and clean up the writing. She did an outstanding job. The next year the complaining about the textbook stopped, but I did get some comments about how easy it was to read the textbook. I can’t say enough positive about Bonnie and her editing skills. Hire her if you get a chance; she won’t disappoint!
Author: Bonnie McKnight
Bonnie has been an editor all her life—at the age of two she famously argued with her father over whether it was more properly called "fog" or "mist". She has worked as a professional editor at Crystal Publishing, LLC since 2015 and has degrees in history and English, including an MA in book history from the University of London. She believes that the British are on to something when they don't require the punctuation to fall inside the quotation marks!
