Dan <3s words. Totally. So he picked himself up a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style and started playing whack-a-comma around four years ago. But he'd been a writer long before that.
2005–Present. This bimonthly journal of Christian culture and ideas addresses an educated audience, professionals and laymen alike. My role is editor, copyeditor, sometimes-writer, and web editor. I have developed and am codifying the magazine's in-house style, a project made more challenging by the desire to respect both British and American writing conventions.
2002–2004. Campion's Brag was a student-run publication of Campion College of San Francisco. Starting as a contributor, I then entered editing and was voted editor-in-chief for the 2003/2004 school year. Duties were all-inclusive, from editorials and copyediting to coordinating work and cajoling people into late hours.
With a double-major in Philosophy and Literature, there's been a lot of writing going on the last few years. On top of the basic class requirements, each major required a twenty-page-plus thesis. My work with StAR requires constant use of academic standards in writing and editing. I have also helped numerous students refine their papers, both in argument and style, as a private tutor and editor.
Awards
I won the 2004 Campion College Academic Writing Competition, and was a finalist in the 2006 Culture of Enterprise essay competition.
Experience here spans writing news reports for the San Francisco Faith to the reports and editorials of Campion's Brag. I am familiar with AP style and am perhaps a little too familiar with the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.).