Michelle Pereira
EDITOR | WRITER | TUTOR
About Michelle
Michelle Pereira loves language, and is fascinated by sentences in particular. She studies how to build them and break them down. She understands the power and influence sentences have in our daily lives. She believes we can motivate, inspire, calm, comfort and succeed through our sentences. And she is constantly uses and shares her knowledge of the mechanics of sentences in different ways.She has been working, since 2016, as an independent editor and writer of school textbooks. She is also a writing coach, and privately tutors senior school students online in English language and literature.Her previous corporate experience includes 15 years in the Administration and Human Resources departments of multinational and Indian companies, with 11 years with Ernst and Young India. She has an Executive MBA and is certified as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP). She has honed her writing and copyediting skills with Dr. Venkataraman Anantharaman of The Art of Copyediting.
SERVICES
Editing Services
Structural editing: Organising the written content at a chapter, topic, section, paragraph and sentence level.
Substantive editing: Ensuring that the purpose of the book is being met, that it carries the reader along and that it is a clear cohesive whole.
Line editing: Suggesting improvements to the way the author’s thoughts and ideas are expressed a sentence level.
Copyediting: Checking for appropriate sentence structure, grammar and vocabulary.
Proofreading: Checking that recommended changes have been incorporated in the content and that the book is ready to be published.
Books edited: ICSE and CBSE textbooks for grade 1 to 8 for Computers, Social Studies and English
Writing Services
Assessment Questions: Writing questions to test students’ understanding of concepts through recall, application, analysis, evaluation and synthesis questions.
Content written for: ICSE English textbooks grades 2 to 5; Grade 5 online learning
testimonial
"It was great to find Michelle through our network. Right from the first conversation, she proved to be someone whom we could bounce our ideas off of. Assessment writing can be tricky business, but her extensive experience helped us get quality assessments right from the first submission (which is a rarity even for people with experience).She also was careful to consider our goals when evaluating our feedback and pointed out any potential conflicts back to us. Her inputs really helped make the product better. In the short, she proved herself to be a dependable contributor in every respect! We would love to work with her at every opportunity."Nagraj VL
Director - Content Strategy
Fortuna Pix(Recommendation on LinkedIn)
tutoring and training
Writing Coach: Guiding middle and senior school students through foundational skills in sentence construction and grammar.
(Online)
Curriculum Tutor: Tutoring grades 9 to 12 students for the Cambridge IGCSE, and Indian educational boards ICSE and CBSE English exams. (Online)
Language Trainer: Training graduates and working professionals to improve their written English skills. (Online)
testimonials
"I am grateful to Michelle for her valuable training. The week-long English course was very informative, interesting and useful. She has strong subject knowledge and this makes her very passionate and enthusiastic about teaching. She makes complex topics, especially English grammar, very interesting and easy to follow.The course has helped me both personally and professionally. Today I feel better prepared and confident when I teach."Teacher trained in
English Grammar, Comprehension and Writing
books & articles
My New Book
My latest book of poems, Inner World: Poems for those who are on the fence about reading poetry, is available on Amazon
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