2. About the business
Since 2004, we have provided professional clients with high-level editing of print and web publications. We are well resourced to handle scientific and technical reports, corporate publications, training workbooks, conference papers and academic theses.
Our business capabilities expanded recently to incorporate editorial management to obtain copyright permissions on behalf of authors, coordination of collaborative authoring for large writing teams and graphics editing.
2.1 Business mission
Red Lettuce Communications aims to provide clients with professional writing, editing and publishing support services that:
- create opportunities for publishing
- encourage clear expression of ideas
- increase the prospects for recognition
- improve promotion of business
- educate about language and communication.
2.2 Affiliations
2.2.1 Australian Society for Technical Communication (NSW)
2.2.2 Society of Editors (NSW)
2.2.3 Canberra Society of Editors
2.3 Qualifications
2.3.1 Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing (USQ)
2.3.2 Master of Natural Resources (UNE)
2.3.3 Postgraduate Diploma in Remote Sensing (Curtin)
2.3.4 Bachelor of Arts (Curtin)
2.4 In-house experience
| [SEC2.4 1] | Editor, Thomson Reuters, Sydney—editorial coordination of looseleaf legal and financial products, project editor for Fair Work Legislation 2009 |
| [SEC2.4 2] | Writer/editor, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra—editing of academic research reports and papers, writing cover blurbs, author liaison |
| [SEC2.4 3] | Portal editor, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Canberra—researching and writing news articles and stories, and web page editing for the Culture Portal |
2.5 Professional development
| Principles of XML Design and Development | Allette Systems |
| Methods for XML Governance | Allette Systems |
| Expressing Business and Publishing Rules Using ISO Schematron | Allette Systems |
| Open XML for Word Developers | Allette Systems |
| InDesign CS4 for Subs/Editors | Alpha Computer Consultants |
| XML Uncovered | Object Training |
| Create and promote your own e-book | Marcus Amman/ACT Writers' Centre |
| Nothing but the truth—the craft of non-fiction | Mark Tredinnick/ACT Writers' Centre |
| Adobe InDesign CS | QANTM College |
| Indexing—basic and intermediate | Society of Editors (Qld) |
| Editing CD-ROMs | Society of Editors (Qld) |
2.6 Why 'red lettuce'?
You know how editors use red pens to mark up pages? And pages end up with lots of red letters all over them? And how good businesses need to have funky names these days? Yep, you can figure out how the name came about. It's also good to use for advertising: 'Put some meat into your manuscript with Red Lettuce'. Well—still working on that anyway.
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