Our Team of Pros
Managed Editing’s editors are handpicked from thousands of applicants. They have passed rigorous testing and proven themselves through supervised editing assignments. Our team consists of senior professionals with years, sometimes decades, of editing experience in a variety of fields.
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We are experts in the leading editorial styles: Chicago, Associated Press, American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, and others. We know how to correctly format citations, footnotes, references, and bibliographies in the style clients choose—or a bespoke style, co-created by us and the client.
With editors located across U.S. time zones and in Europe, we can put jobs into production quickly. Though all are U.S. raised and educated, some live and work abroad, giving us maximum flexibility to meet client deadlines.
Besides availability, we consider subject area expertise when assigning a job to an editor. We develop subsets of editors familiar with the work of recurring clients, maximizing our ability to assign the right editor to each job while maintaining both consistent high quality and timely service.
What Makes Us Different?
- Editors vetted through rigorous testing
- Decades of experience
- Native English speakers
- Advanced degrees
- Not a clearinghouse
- Dedicated managing editor
- Based in all U.S. time zones plus Europe
Our Managing Editor
Renee Pendleton
Renee joined Managed Editing as a contract editor in 2000 and, after 21 years of service, became the company owner and managing editor in 2021.
In addition to 18 years spent managing publications for an international nonprofit, she also taught university courses in writing and the history of the English language.
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Renee served as director of publications for the North American Montessori Teachers’ Association (NAMTA) for 18 years, copyediting and managing production of books, newsletters, and a quarterly journal.
As the organization’s archivist, she oversaw an 18,000-item collection of Montessori-related books and articles published from 1909 to the present. Based on that collection, she created and maintained a searchable database to generate a bibliography for both print and online use. In addition, Renee coauthored and managed publication of The Whole-School Montessori Handbook for Teachers and Administrators (1999) and its 2007 Supplement.
Prior to that, Renee spent five years as adjunct faculty in the writing program of Kent State University (Ohio), where she also taught a course in the history of the English language. Through her service on the English department’s textbook committee, she was invited by Harper & Row to review a prepublication manuscript of the college textbook Four Worlds of Writing (2nd edition). In addition, she has designed and facilitated professional development workshops in proofreading and editing for business at Cleveland State University (Ohio). She holds a master’s in English with concentrations in Old English, American realism, and 20th-century American literature, plus an outside minor in journalism.
Company History
Managed Editing was founded in 1996 as Editorial Services Online, one of the first internet service businesses, targeting government and nonprofit clients in the Washington, DC, area. Within a short time, organizations from across the country and around the world had joined our client list.
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Since our founding, we’ve handled tens of thousands of documents, from one-page flyers to multivolume books. Our clients have come to count on us for professional service, efficient work, punctual delivery, and superb document editing/proofreading.
Today, Managed Editing’s clients still appreciate working directly with a knowledgeable managing editor who ensures that jobs are handled efficiently, minimizing time and cost while maintaining the highest editorial standards.