Dave Nelsen

Proofreader, Copyeditor

United States of America

I'm a word guy. A grammar guru. A geek. I turn commas into semicolons, 25-word monstrosities into 15-word sentences, and abstract thoughts into clearly communicated ideas. Ask me about dependent and independent clauses, dangling modifiers, active and passive voice, parallelism, plurals, and the evolution of the English language, and two hours later, you'll wish you hadn't.

Below are a few of the many projects I've had the opportunity to work on.

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Amazon
Educating Milwaukee

Here's a wonderfully informative book packed with facts about the desegregation of the Milwaukee Public School system. I copyedited it from cover to cover.

Product Catalog
Can-Am 2010 Product Catalog

Here's a very technical product brochure that I had to proofread many, many times before publication.

Quality Progress
Improved Gage R&R Measurement Studies

While working for Quality Progress magazine, I was the regular editor of a bimonthly column called "Measure for Measure." As you can tell from reading it, the column was highly technical.

Quality Progress
Ghosts in Your Process? Who Ya Gonna Call?

Here's a fairly technical article I edited during my time with Quality Progress magazine. It's about a nine-step problem-solving process that focuses on data examination.

Quality Progress
Bringing Lean to the Office

Here's an article I edited while I was the assistant editor of Quality Progress magazine. It's about a group of college students who use the principles of lean manufacturing to improve processes in the university’s admissions office. The style we followed was a modified version of AP style.