May I introduce myself, a
full-blooded Ilocano farmer’s son:
who learned to adore the English language when he was in high school in 1953; who
graduated from UPCA, now UP Los Baños,
in 1965 with a BSA major in Ag Edu, and the year before passed the Civil Service Professional for teachers;
who taught himself digital writing and editing starting Innocents Day 1985 – who believes he must have been a good
teacher because he continued to teach himself & graduated to digital desktop publishing (DTP) and has
since digitally edited countless theses, journals and books (some his own).
I am a one-of-a-kind editor. I googled for “PC Editor” and
the images above are from Clipart Library
(clipart-library.com),
which has a collection of 46 “Editor Cliparts” showing only 3 people with a PC
– 7%, indicating that 93% of editors in the
world are still working with typed or printed pages and very few editors are working
in the digital world. (Image above: Me, 73 years old, in 2013.)
Noting the above, I am probably the only PC-based editor of
technical manuscripts in the world, from draft to final edit before final
printing for submission of the manuscript.
I started learning how to use
the desktop PC on 28 December 1985, when I also started editing my own works.
From then on, no stopping me.
I passed the very first Civil
Service exam in 1964 with a 80.6% grade. I must have been an excellent
teacher because I taught myself my digital skills, up to and including desktop
publishing magazines, journals, and books – completely from draft upon draft up
to the point of producing a portable document format (pdf), the pdf file being
the one to bring to the printing press (now print-on-demand) for producing submission,
distribution or commercial copies.
Repeat: I have been a very
good teacher teaching myself my digital skills – and to think that I graduated
from college 10 years before the friends Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozniak
invented the personal computer in 1975!
Here’s what I do: I edit the technical manuscript completely
at first. Then I edit again, the second time. Then I edit again, the third
time. Then I send you the “finished product”. I charge you once while I edit
many times, charging no extra fee.
Technical editing is a time-consuming process – I am a very
patient man when it comes to writing and editing.
I am The Editor In Chief you
may not have encountered and ready to serve, digitally. Try me: You send
me a complete digital draft copy of your manuscript (thesis or paper) and I will
give you editorial comments – free! (PM me for my email.)
As Editor In Chief, I have (1)
Mastery of English, American idiom; (2) Mastery of the major parts of a
technical manuscript; (3) Mastery of MS
Word for editing & formatting & layouting images & tables – I
have much experience and more patience in editing over and over again!@517
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