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About the
Editor
| Ruhama Veltfort
has been helping academic, literary, and business writers for
over fifteen years.
EDUCATION:
- B.A., Anthropology, Barnard College
- Graduate courses in creative writing, literature, and history,
San Francisco State University
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Professional
Experience
EDITING:
(for selected projects,
see Portfolio)
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Developed a dramatic first chapter for scholarly
book that included topics in maritime history and economics,
making it accessible to a wider audience (The Voyage of
the Frolic).
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Reorganized fictionalized interview material
for emphasis and readability, and revised chapter order (Chinese
Intellectuals on the World Frontier).
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Rewrote introduction and substantially edited
fourth chapter to serve as first chapter (Development and
Disenchantment in Rural Tunisia).
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Trained non-native English speakers in written
expression in American English, familiarizing them with American
culture and idioms.
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Edited scientific papers for clarity, grammar,
and style, preparing them for journal submission (Department
of Anesthesia, University of California San Francisco).
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Author of a novel, two collections of poetry
and several short stories.
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Selected and wrote descriptions of community
cultural resources for a teachers' resource guide to be used
in a multicultural social studies program.
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Researched and co-wrote a literature review
article on gender differences among mental patients treated
with psychosurgery.
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Developed and produced a bi-monthly feature
for a local newspaper.
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