WTEC, Incorporated

www.wtec.org

Mission:

WTEC is the national leader in conducting international technology assessments.

Services:

Provided a wide range of editorial support services for WTEC’s international technology assessment conferences and proceedings:

  • Ghostwriting
  • Abstracts and summaries
  • Recording and transcription
  • Copyediting and substantive editing
  • Research and analysis

Provided staff support services for monthly meetings of the Multi-Agency Tissue Engineering Science Interagency Working Group (under WTEC contractor support agreement):

  • Recording and preparation of meeting minutes
  • Writing and editing website content, designing web pages, and performing site maintenance
  • Monitoring science and medical journals, news sites, press releases, and custom search alerts for news of interest; writing and posting abstracts regularly to the working group’s website
  • Maintaining the website’s events calendar of upcoming international scientific conferences

On-site reporting duties:

  • Preparing and editing meeting summaries
  • Writing and editing summaries of international research assessment interim and final meetings

Science and Technology Policy Institute

www.ida.org/stpi

Mission:

A federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) operated by the Institute for Defense Analyses, STPI provides high-quality research and analysis to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), including copyediting, substantive editing, technical writing, and research and analysis.

Services:

Provided writing and editorial services to STPI to help it fulfill its research mandate to its clients.

Co-author:

  • “Preliminary Findings from the NSF Survey of Object-Based Scientific Collections: 2008” (academia.edu)

Editorial support for reports and publications, including:

  • Writing first drafts of sections, chapters, and appendices
  • Substantive editing of early drafts
  • Proofreading of final drafts
  • Preparation and formatting of reference lists
  • Development and maintenance of word lists, style guides, and citation formats
  • Review of statistical data, charts, tables, and graphics
  • Research of source material
  • Verification of citations and references

Various on-site reporting and minutes preparation duties, including:

  • Preparing and editing meeting summaries and reports for project team meetings
  • Writing and editing on-site reports of interagency working group meetings, committee meetings, conferences, and other events