Hello.

My name is Tracy, and I am a copy editor, technical writer, and web content and social media manager available to help you with your communication needs.

I graduated with a Bachelor’s in English with a focus on Professional and Technical Writing and a minor in American Studies. I took the long route to earn my degree, but along the way it helped me to pick up a tool belt full of skills such as an eagle-eye for details, an artist’s eye for graphic design, and the people skills to communicate with a wide variety of audiences. Most important, it helped me to know that communication–both technical and otherwise–is my passion.

Even as a child I got a thrill when I’d find an error in a newspaper or school textbook, so it’s no surprise that I still love and excel at copyediting. I always knew my future would involve a red pen in hand, helping to solve the world’s grammatical errors, one document at a time! Today I get that same thrill and personal satisfaction when I help graduate students polish their theses or dissertations, or when I help a book author hone their work to perfection as they travel the path towards publication.

Going hand-in-hand with helping to clarify and strengthen others’ writing, I also love to do my own. I was always that student who enjoyed research reports, and I still am today. I relish the challenge of delving into a topic–no matter how dry–diving into the research and then crafting a well-written AND interesting end product. After all, what point is there in writing if it doesn’t keep your intended audience interested? Writing for academia or the workplace is no exception: if it is important enough to need communicating, it should be done clearly and well.

Websites and social media are the new frontier for spreading messages. We have access to millions of websites–on any subject imaginable–but we have all seem the gamut of ill-designed and ill-written content for those sites. Like any document, a website must be well designed and easy for your audience to navigate, but it also must be well written–a fact that is often overlooked. If your message isn’t conveyed clearly, your audience will be off to look for something better with a single click, never to return.

We always hear, “Don’t sweat the small stuff!”–which is normally good advice. However, when it comes to communicating in today’s world, the small stuff matters!

Let me deal with it for you.