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Barbara Hart
During the Q&A the audience asked the panel how to evaluate freelancers when someone else may have prepared their resumes and their references may be friends.
"You have to test freelancers," said Barbara Hart, Publications Professionals. She asks freelancers to take her three-hour test only when she has matched them to a possible assignment. She suggested editors write their tests using real-world materials.
American Psychiatric Press editorial director Claire Reinburg pays freelancers to edit a sample chapter from a book manuscript. This tests the skills of unknown freelancers and the compatibility with the material of both unknowns and regulars.
Freelancers said they like this kind of paid testing and frown on or reject taking long tests or doing sample editing without pay.
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Three editors assess the present and advise on the future
Barbara Hart
An English major who is a language generalist but has learned about topics from engineering to economics as a technical editor, Barbara Hart recently expanded her editorial services company, Publications Professionals LLC, to include the merged Communicators Connection, Inc.
Hart supervises a small staff and a large stable of freelancers. This combination enables Pubs Pros to provide a range of editorial services for corporations, associations and government agencies. The company specializes in editing and producing books and journals.
Among her freelancers are many from the editing classes she has taught in publishing programs at the University of Virginia, George Washington University and Howard University.
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