About Us

Dorothy P. Craig & Associates has served as an editorial consultant to public and private clients in the Puget Sound area of Washington State since 1978. Dorothy continues to offer quality editing services for clients anywhere within reach of the worldwide web.

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Services

Depending on your needs, we can help from start to finish of your publication.
Editorial services include:

• Initial planning and organization
• Writing of new text such as summaries and introductory sections
• Rewriting to achieve consistency in text by multiple authors
• Copyediting and proofing - the fine tuning

Other services, available if needed, include:

• Project coordination with in-house team or consultants
• Team or client meeting facilitation
• Research and documentation

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Products

Typical products include:

• Non-fiction books
• Environmental policy and planning documents
• Environmental and technical reports
• Environmental impact statements
• Public sector and non-profit management documents
• Editorial Design and Production Coordination
• Public information and involvement materials
• Training materials

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Biography

Dorothy P. Craig has over 35 years of professional editorial experience. Early training as a newspaper reporter established lifelong skills in rapidly assembling details on many topics, translating various kinds of jargon for a general audience, and working under pressure of deadlines. She uses these skills to help public agencies, nonprofits, and businesses to communicate complicated information to decision-makers, employees, citizens, and customers. She specializes in developmental editing and copyediting of complex documents where organization and editorial consistency are particularly important.

Dorothy is particularly interested in the interplay between the environmental, socio-economic, and political aspects of any given issue and the long-term and/or global implications. Through her work as an editorial consultant for the City of Seattle, City of Olympia, State of Washington, and many other public and private clients, she has become familiar with subjects ranging from surface water and groundwater protection, solid waste management, ecosystem management, climate change and environmental regulations to community mental health, community development, program planning and non-profit organization management. When required, she assembles a team of associates with the necessary skills and experience for a specific project.

Dorothy has extensive experience in public policy and program development, both as an editor and as a consultant or employee for local government agencies. She spent four years as a full-time consultant with the City of Olympia (Washington) public works department, developing innovative programs and policies related to water resources, sustainable community, and global climate change. For several years she worked for the planning and community development department in King County, Washington, providing planning assistance to small rural towns, and managing federal grant contracts with suburban jurisdictions. In the early 1970's she helped develop a comprehensive network of community mental health services in the rapidly growing urban county north of Detroit, Michigan.

Dorothy has also been active as a founder, volunteer, or employee with several not-for-profit organizations. In 1991, she co-founded the Sustainable Community Roundtable in South Puget Sound, one of the nation's first grassroots organizations promoting the vision and principles of sustainability - the Roundtable pioneered the development of citizen-initiated indicators of sustainability. Until 2000, she coordinated activities of the Roundtable and was actively involved in sustainable community regional and national networking.

She spent several years as co-director of Children of the Green Earth, promoting tree-planting partnerships between children in North America and children in deforested areas of India, Africa, and Latin America. Her interest in grassroots community development led to two month-long trips to India in 1986 and 2000, traveling alone or with friends to visit innovative community projects in remote villages and crowded cities.

She was employed part time by the North American office of the Sufi Order International, assisting with major organizational development activities such as strategic planning and fundraising; supporting the board of trustees, volunteer committees, and emerging regional leadership councils; and developing new bylaws, policies and procedures.

Dorothy began her editorial career as a journalist, serving as editor of her junior high, high school, and college newspapers. After graduating from Allegheny College with honors in history, she worked professionally as a reporter, feature writer, and copyeditor, covering farm news for the Somerset Daily American in rural western Pennsylvania, and the war on poverty, race relations, and the anti-war movement for the Macomb Daily in suburban Detroit during the 1960's. She has a master's degree in social work policy and administration from the University of Michigan.

Clients

To see what clients in the Puget Sound area of Washington state have said about Dorothy P. Craig & Associates editorial services, click here.

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