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Melissa Barton
4 Kino Court
The Woodlands, TX 77380
Cell: 936-524-3277
Education Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Bachelor of Science, Communication Studies, 2013, Outstanding Undergraduate Honors
Lone Star College–Montgomery, Conroe, TX
Associate of Arts, English, 2007, Summa Cum Laude
President of local chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, International Honor Society
Office
Skills
Windows 7
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook,
Publisher, PowerPoint
Type 68 WPM
Manage up to 13 subordinates
Personable and friendly customer service
Editing Experience
April 2010-Present
Freelance Editor
Editorch.com
Spring, TX
Copy editing: spelling, grammar, mechanics of writing
Substantive editing: story flow, plausibility, continuity
Academic editing: dissertations adhering to APA format
Transcription: academic research interviews, focus groups, and court of law evidence
Fiction Projects
Authors from The Woodlands Writers’ Guild, (Anthology due to release February, 2016),
Into the Woods
Whittington, B., Montpetit, K., North, T., Kessler, A. L., Lamb, H.A.; Au, L. M. (Anthology,
2015) A Weird Thing Happened at the Book Fest.
Purdy, A., Pope, L., Bishop, M., Grenor, D., McCoy, J. L. (Anthology, 2015) A Sexy Thing
Happened at the Book Fest.
Jackson, Leah (2014). Sweetwater Farm.
Whittington, Belle (2014). Monarch.
Friesen, Kathryn (2013). The Prophesied.
Rice-Mills, Faith (2013). Identified: The Maya Price Story.
Whittington, Belle (2012). Firefly.
Technical Writing Projects
Durham, P. (2012) Constructing voices through lived-experiences: A phenomenological
study of novice reading teachers’ personal understanding of pedagogical ownership
and professional identity (Doctoral dissertation). Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Corpus
Christi, TX.
McDowell, F. D. (2011) Help me read: Student characteristics, reading attitudes, and perceptions within a developmental reading course (Doctoral dissertation). Texas A&M
Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX.
McNair, C. L. (2011) A comparison of the effect of two strategies on adolescent reading
comprehension and the relationship between reading ability and reader self-perception
(Doctoral dissertation). Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX.
Puente, N. (2013) Literacy coaching in south Texas: A retrospective study of literacy coaches and elementary teachers (Doctoral dissertation). Texas A&M Corpus Christi,
Corpus Christi, TX.
Melissa Barton Editor Resume 936-524-3277
Montgomery County United Way. (2015) Community resource directory. The Woodlands,
TX: Cruz, Jali
References:
Julie Martineau
President
Montgomery County Untied Way
281-292-4155 x245
Belle Whittington
Author
Daniel Umbehr
The Woodlands Writers’ Guild