A little about Apt Words and me.
I'm Sue Littleford, and Apt Words is my business. It's me you'll be dealing with. I'm very well used to making the obscure clear, and the clunky graceful, flowing and powerful. I love nitpicking, so I'm going to find those misplaced apostrophes and grammatical anomalies. But above all, it's important that the English in your document is appropriate, both to your audience and to the subject.
I've a degree from the University of London in geography, with English literature, and I hold the Chapterhouse Certificate in copy editing with proofreading.
I've been a career civil servant, and am used to making central government rules clear to the public. I also spent many years in payroll working for both central government and the private sector. Wherever I've worked, though, I've always been the agony aunt of the written word, which included having directors hand me documents written and rewritten by several hands, wanting me to give them a single voice whilst retaining content and the nuances of key points.
I've written technical manuals for clerical and computer procedures; and business rules and specifications for programmers.
I spent a year at the University of London's Institute of Education, and have extensive experience of training staff in the civil service and private sector, including writing the training courses. I've been a recruitment interviewer for the civil service and in the private sector too.
I've had a lifelong interest in history and work on my genealogy when time permits; I've been involved in music making since I was six, playing the piano and singing; I read modern and classic fiction and anything and everything else that captures my imagination.
So - if you want help with business materials, geography, training materials, history, procedural matters, literature and so on, I'm the one you need.