Alison V
Editor #68802
Joined 1/9/2023
3 Star Rating
668 Projects
After nearly three years of editing and proofreading coworkers' writing in her former job as a crime reporter, Alison began professionally editing grant applications, professional biographies and interviews for the real estate and biomedical engineering and technology industries, creative writing, video and podcast scripts, and client and customer-facing web content.
Design
Beauty
Entertainment
Manufacturing
Medical
Other
Fitness
Script/Video
Article
Real Estate

Specialties

Alison's expertise lies in consumer-facing informational copy across a variety of industries and styles. Her editing focuses on making copy more clear, concise, efficient, and engaging. Finding, establishing, and ensuring consistency in a brand's voice is another notable specialty. Her background and education in playwriting and screenwriting make her an excellent script editor.

Interests

Alison has a wide-ranging swath of interests, including entertainment, lifestyle, culture, food, travel, interior design, home improvement, real estate, education, and business.

Theatre, television, and great food make up many of Alison's evenings. A lover of travel, Alison once rode a 22-hour Amtrak, and hopes to do so again. Alison loves taking long walks and finding cafes to write in.

Education

The New School

Manufacturing

30 Projects Completed

Alison has written and edited blogs, interviews, and professional biographies for some of the most notable biomedical technology, engineering, and manufacturing companies in the world, including Intuitive Surgical. In her editing, she keeps a goal of finding the balance between industry and layman's terminology to ensure clear copy that appeals to audiences both within and outside the industry.

Medical

30 Projects Completed

Alison has written and edited blogs, interviews, and professional biographies for some of the most notable biomedical technology, engineering, and manufacturing companies in the world, including Intuitive Surgical. In her editing, she keeps a goal of finding the balance between industry and layman's terminology to ensure clear copy that appeals to audiences both within and outside the industry.

Real Estate

8 Projects Completed

Alison has written and edited numerous articles—including affiliate marketing—about real estate, mortgages, down payments, and more. With a background in playwriting and screenwriting, Alison is skilled in identifying, matching, and ensuring consistency in a brand's voice and tailoring content to appeal to an audience. A hobbyist and lover of all things lifestyle, beauty, and design, Alison keeps up-to-date on current trends in beauty content, copy, and marketing.

Fitness

5 Projects Completed

Alison is the writer of the humorous essay series, All the Times I Cried in Exercise Class, which weaves through the struggle and thought process of trying to find a good beginner exercise class. Her expertise in editing exercise-related content is based in her ability to activate language, match tone, voice, and style, and create clear, succinct, and efficient copy.

Beauty

2 Projects Completed

Alison has written and edited creative B2B copy for a unique luxury beauty subscription and marketing project. With a background in playwriting and screenwriting, Alison is skilled in identifying, matching, and ensuring consistency in a brand's voice and tailoring content to appeal to an audience. A hobbyist and lover of all things lifestyle, beauty, and design, Alison keeps up-to-date on current trends in beauty content, copy, and marketing.

Entertainment

2 Projects Completed

A TV fanatic, film lover, and theatre nerd, Alison is highly knowledgeable about the entertainment industry and has professional experience in several areas. With a background in playwriting and screenwriting, Alison is also a skilled, thoughtful, analytical, and empathetic editor of scripts. Alison has provided feedback in numerous workshop and writer's group sessions as well as professionally.

Design

1 Projects Completed

With a background in playwriting and screenwriting, Alison is skilled in identifying, matching, and ensuring consistency in a brand's voice and tailoring content to appeal to an audience. A hobbyist and lover of all things lifestyle, beauty, and design, Alison keeps up-to-date on current trends in beauty content, copy, and marketing.

Article

500 Projects Completed

For over two and a half years, Alison wrote breaking news articles and follow-up summary articles about crime, fires, COVID, and other public safety concerns, events, and resources. These articles were intended for local and/or national audiences and included app notification copy and headlines. Alison also edited and proofread similar articles, headlines, and notifications written by peers and coworkers.

Additionally, Alison has written and edited research-based educational and informative articles in the 1,000-2,500 word range for online publications.

Script/Video

50 Projects Completed

Alison has written and edited numerous short-form, long-form, informational, creative, video, and audio scripts. Her editing experience has included research-based fact-checking as well as line edits, structural edits, developmental edits, analysis, and feedback. Alison's educational background is based in playwriting and screenwriting, providing a vital foundation in storytelling and scriptwriting principles and formatting knowledge.

Other

40 Projects Completed

Alison has experience writing and editing professional biographies for employees of various industries, but has primary experience in the biomedical engineering and technology field. In this space, she has written and edited bios for LinkedIn and company websites that offer cohesion from employee to employee, while still allowing each individual's skills, experiences, and personalities to shine.

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