Betsy Hedberg
EDITOR, WRITER, AND CONSULTANT
If you communicate to an English-speaking audience, your written content must be clear and sound natural. Otherwise, you risk misunderstandings, wasted time, low credibility, and a confused audience.
It all comes down to user experience. You want people to quickly understand what you’re saying and know how to respond. This applies even if your content is academic, highly technical, or for a specialized audience.
I often notice these problems:
– Too much jargon (overly complicated or obscure wording that isn’t clear, even for a technical audience)
– Important information presented in a boring way
– Redundant information (saying the same thing over and over)
– Bad English (written English that’s awkward or unclear)
I’m a native English-speaking editor and writer, and I can help you simplify the complex and communicate efficiently and precisely. I love transforming complicated, abstract, vague, disjointed, or awkward information into plain English, keeping the important parts while making your content faster to read and easier to understand.
I can also take a consulting role, advising you on how to best develop your written materials.
And I have special expertise in creating and editing curriculum and training materials — learn more about that at my learning design website.
Focus on the work you do best, and I’ll take care of your English editing and writing.
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Testimonials
Betsy has an impressive ability to absorb and process a large amount of information and transform it into an understandable and well-written document. Betsy is flexible, solution-oriented and has an eye for detail. I would highly recommend Betsy.
I recently worked with Betsy on behalf of the Accelerated Education Working Group developing a facilitator’s manual for an Education workshop. This manual is going to be used globally so it was really important to ensure the language, instructions, style and format were able to be understood by a global audience. Betsy was extremely flexible to work with and delivered work of a high quality in a very short time span. She gives helpful technical feedback and guidance and was very communicative at all stages of the work. I’d highly recommend Betsy and hope to work with her again in the near future.
Betsy edited for an academic technical project I was working on. She made the English more clear and approachable while retaining the desired tone and style. She also provided helpful suggestions on style and structure. Betsy is really easy to work with, delivers work on time and of very high quality. I highly recommend her and I hope I get to work with her in the future.
Betsy is that rare combination – someone with a natural writing ability, incredible creativity, and who pays meticulous attention to even the smallest (but important) details.
Working with Betsy was unlike any previous experience I’ve had with other freelancers. She truly became part of the team and someone I regularly looked to for guidance and advice.
Betsy provided wonderful guidance and input for both the process and the content of this program. She served as a wonderful guide, coach and teammate in helping me to visualize our program, think through the critical challenges, and lay out a plan and process for meeting our goals.
Betsy is easy to work with and is a highly effective writer.
Betsy is always a pleasure to work with.
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I look forward to helping you perfect your English documents!