Services

I work across diverse content areas from creative nonfiction to the more academic, but I specialize in medical editing and writing. In health care, clarity is vital to avoid inadvertent misunderstandings and errors. Good editing can make your content more digestible and easier to read for patients and practitioners alike.

I help organizations and authors shape and flesh out ideas (writing or developmental editing), and I copyedit and proofread to ensure precision. I work with print, eLearning and multimedia materials.

Connect with me at vee@veewhite.com

Writing / Substantive Editing

I write original content for your desired audience, following your requested specifications and within your set budget. This service can include substantive line editing or rewriting base content to better fit your needs. I am also available for ghostwriting using your research and outlines.

Selected Work:

— Wrote a new opioid overdose lesson, video scripts and interactive case studies for the American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers eLearning Course (both student and instructor courses), published January 2019. The course is now being used by the U.S. military.

— Wrote and developed website content and blog posts for a pipette calibration and analytical laboratory balances company (ongoing since 2019).

Developmental Editing

I provide big-picture editing for content, organization and clarity with your market and audience in mind. This can include sentence-level line editing as well.

Selected Work:

— Led developmental editing for a 4-volume orthopaedic history book comprising more than 1.5 million words within a 1.5-year period (2019 to mid-2021).

— Provided developmental editing for the American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers eLearning Course (both student and instructor courses), published January 2019. The course is now being used by the U.S. military.

— Completed developmental editing for the 8th edition of Maternal & Child Health Nursing, comprising 1696 printed pages. Revised and updated by JoAnne Silbert-Flagg (authored by Adele Pillitteri in previous editions) and ~30 contributors (January 2016–May 2017; published December 2017).

— Created the market development strategy, performed developmental editing and advised on next steps to begin the production process for Charles Kunkle’s No Time to Care (April 2015–November 2015; published February 2016). The book won a 2016 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award (2nd Place).

Copyediting: I provide sentence-level editing for sentence construction and word choice, style, grammatical correctness, spelling and punctuation while applying style guide conventions. The level of copyedit depends upon the needs of the project.

Proofreading: I review layout and check for egregious and typographical errors for both print and digital content (such as websites or eLearning modules). I offer standard and more substantive proofreading if requested.

Manuscript / Content Assessment: I offer high-level structural and content analysis across chapters, modules or documents. It includes a detailed summary document with feedback and recommendations rather than editing.

Workshops: Do you feel you or your colleagues need additional training? I also provide workshops. I can discuss everything from best practices for writing to avoiding inadvertent plagiarism. I will tailor the workshop to your unique needs.

Other Services: Do you require a service not listed here? I offer additional services from fact checking to executive reports to CV and resume editing. Connect with me to discuss further.

Partnerships

I occasionally partner with another experienced editor with whom I have developed a trusted relationship. These collaborations may help support meeting a tight timeline for a large project or may provide you with a different eye on your work for other types of editing or rounds of review. It’s best practice, for example, not to have the same person both write and edit the same content or complete both developmental and copyediting for the same book.