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"Lauryn is truly a pleasure to work with. She is creative, knowledgeable, detail-oriented and extremely fun! She easily captured the essence of our organization."

​- Lisa Snipes, Website Administrator for the ​Women's Club of Addison
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"I found Lauryn to be patient and good-spirited. She makes very educated and creative suggestions, asking questions and creating solutions. I enjoy working with Lauryn, very much. I appreciate her professionalism, her humor and her confidence." 

- ​Irene Boutzarelos, Executive Director of the ​Addison Center for the Arts ​
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"Lauryn, you were our expert in an area where Matt and I knew next to nothing. I appreciated your willingness to step in and teach us, as well as do the proofread on a massive, kind of clunky, project. [The work was] efficient, detailed, expert, attentive, [and] above the expectation."

- Kathryn Notestine, Associate Editor at Dexterity Books
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"Lauryn knows how to gather facts, log them, compose them and polish them into beautiful sentences. She impressed me with her creativity, knowledge and ability to say, 'I’ll need to spend some time to research that question.' Before you post, ask her to review your text. She sees what needs correcting. What a winner!"

- ​Alice Smith (no relation), Writer, Blogger, and Story Collector

~ Portfolio ~


I have edited and written for:

  • Ahead
  • Dexterity
  • EditorBar
  • Editor World
  • Scientific Language
  • Cactus Communications
  • National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners
  • Quora, Inc.
  • Illinois Association of Family and Consumer Sciences​
  • Addison Center for the Arts
  • Addison Historical Society
  • Women's Club of Addison
  • What's New​
  • Aspire Therapeutic Riding Program
  • Nighthawk Group​, LLC
  • ​Book Nook Reviews
  • The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Red Caffeine Marketing + Technology
  • Portfolio of Miranda Vreugdenhil​
  • West Suburban Living Magazine​
  • Atlas Obscura
  • Moffett Field Historical Society
  • Margie Korshak, Inc.
  • Elmhurst College​
  • The Leader (Elmhurst College)​
  • Chicago Talks
  • Columbia Chronicle (Columbia College Chicago)
  • Urbino Now Magazine
  • The Observer (Elgin Community College)
  • And more! 

#ieditedthat

  • Publication Plan? Mandatory! ​
  • ADHD Treatment Options, Part 2: Beyond Stimulants
  • The Impact ADHD Can Have on Life
  • Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274)
  • Karl Popper: Philosophy of Science
  • Epistemic Justification
  • Legal Hermeneutics
  • Review: “Passenger” by Alexandra Bracken
  • ​Review: "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
  • Columbia Chronicle (04/30/2012)
  • Columbia Chronicle (01/17/2012)
  • Chicago Schools in Desperate Need of Longer School Days
  • ​​Student Projects Awarded Weisman
  • Interim Provost Ranks Programs, Proposes New Departments
  • New Buildings Threaten Renegades
  • ​​'Mob Wives Chicago' Under Fire
  • ​City Keeps Peace with Nobel Summit
  • And more! (Please note that some of my academic editing work is confidential.)

#iwrotethat

  • ​Review: "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews
  • Review: "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Mass
  • ​Review: "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • ​Columbia College and Part-Time Faculty at the NLRB
  • High-Tech Sunscreen: Healthy or Harmful?
  • ​Freshman Fifteen: Fact or Fiction?
  • ​​Square Deal Shoe Store
  • Izmailovo Kremlin
  • Battling Child Abuse
  • ​​Fame & Flatbread
  • And more!

#passionproject

  • Book Nook Reviews

#findme

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