EDITING • WRITING • LEXICOGRAPHY •
WRITING TEACHING & SEMINARS
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"Mr. Cohen’s work reflected not only a mastery of grammar and diction but a
judicious sense of style and appropriateness. . . . He knew when to be tough on my manuscript and when to
tactfully and intelligently query — in my experience, an uncommon editorial gift."
— Dr. William Epstein, UNITAR;
author, The Last Chance: Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control |
OVER 25 YEARS’ EDITING — from polishing to rewriting:
- scholarly, general-interest
(trade), & reference books
- public policy, think tank, & non-profit organization books / reports / journals / newsletters
- general- & special-interest magazine articles
- for individual authors: articles & books / theses & dissertations / memoirs
Subject Specialties:
Urban Affairs & Public Policy • History & International Relations •
Government & Social Sciences • Public Health & the Environment • Medical Ethics • Psychology & Education • Media &
Communications • Management & Business Administration • Language Arts • Music • Judaica & Religion • Baseball
+ Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias • Biographies & Memoirs
for: The Free Press / Macmillan / Schirmer Books / Random House / Fordham University Press / Oxford University Press / Rockefeller Institute of Government (State University of NY) / The Urban Institute / The Century Foundation (orig. Twentieth Century Fund) / Facts on File / Pfizer Laboratories
For books edited by Robert Cohen, click here.
and for: Abt Associates
(Cambridge, MA) / Boston Medical Center /
Boston Research Center for the 21st Century / Community Development Research Center
(New School University) /
Council on Foreign Relations / Crown Center for Middle East Studies (Brandeis
University) / IPPNW (International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War, Cambridge, MA) / MDRC
(orig. Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, NYC)
/ NYSEPH (New York Milton H. Erickson Society for
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DEPTH EDITOR: Skilled at querying & revising problem manuscripts — for organization / transitions / wordiness • Expert at making the writing of academics & scholars accessible & appealing to a general audience • Ruthless in probing for clarity & logic • Finely tuned ear for the sound of good, clear, persuasive prose. For “How I Edit,” click here.
RELATED SKILLS: Copy & substantive (line) editing (on-line or hard copy) • advisory & developmental editing • rewriting • fact-checking & research • proofreading • interviewing. For Services Offered, click here.
Published & Contract WRITER:
- for NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: speeches / statements of purpose / monographs (Community Development Research Center, New School University; Boston Research Center for the 21st Century; National Council of Jewish Women; Hadassah)
- for NATIONAL MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS: essays, feature stories, profiles, reviews (Columbia/Moment/Hadassah/New Age Journal/Utne Reader/New York Newsday/Jerusalem Post). American Jewish Press Association, Simon Rockower Award, Excellence in Arts and Criticism, 1994.
- of A-V & educational scripts (Pearson School Technology) / of social studies curriculum materials (NYC Board of Education)
- of CD LINER NOTES (Open the Gates! New American-Jewish Music for Prayer, Vol. 1) / for RADIO (“One People, Many Voices: American-Jewish Music Comes of Age” [documentary], National Public Radio)
- of public opinion letters: New York Times/Wall Street Journal/Washington Post/Boston Globe/New England Journal of Medicine/The Atlantic/The New Yorker/The New Republic/The Village Voice/Newsday
For work written by Robert Cohen, click here.
WORDSMITH:
- LEXICOGRAPHER: wrote and edited definitions for Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Random House Legal Dictionary, Chambers Encyclopedic English Dictionary, others
- COPYWRITER: sales & promotional copy for Pfizer Laboratories, non-profit org’s, and individual clients / catalog copy for Behrman House and Elderhostel, Inc. / radio continuity & commercials
- Novelty writer: trivia questions for Milton Bradley’s Stage II game
MAGAZINE EDITOR:
- At Hadassah and Family Practice Recertification (generalist medical magazine), conceived, assigned, developed, and edited articles on popular culture & the arts / history & politics / family life / health & medicine / medical education
- Also edited articles for Boston College Magazine, Present Tense, and other magazines and for individual authors
LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER:
- TAUGHT ENGLISH & WRITING TO ADULTS (Local 237, Teamsters Union, NYC)
- created original Language Arts curriculum materials; edited Language Arts workbooks (Sadlier-Oxford) and created original examples
- studied ESL (TESOL/TEFL) teaching at New School University, NYC
- motivated, coached, and worked with individual authors — esp. beginning and first-time authors and memoirists — to improve their style and skills
Available for Writing Coaching, Seminars, & Workshops. |
“The Crown Center's international reputation has benefited greatly from its association with you. Our authors always agree that your editing skills are superb! Many thanks for all that you do.”
— Kristina Cherniahivsky, Associate Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies
“Mr. Cohen brings a real sense of shape, style and flow to his work on a manuscript, invariably improving both a text’s grace and its capacity to tell a story. He is respectful of an author’s prerogatives, while at the same time being firm in his views and advice.”
— Dr. Gerald Benjamin, Director, Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach, SUNY New Paltz;
coauthor, Regionalism and Realism
“You have a special gift for transforming private thoughts and experiences into an article that will communicate to large audiences."
— Dr. Robert C. Cassidy, Director of Bioethics and Social
Policy, LIJMC
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“It is clear that your editor read the manuscript with sharp intelligence and caught things that needed to be changed or clarified. Please relay my thanks.”
— Dr. Carolyn Tuohy, School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto
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COLLABORATOR & PROBLEM-SOLVER:
- accomplished INTERVIEWER: created Q&A features with artists and scholars for Boston College Magazine; articles & sidebars based on interviews with specialists for medical magazine; interviewed writers/artists/musicians/ broadcasters/scholars for my New School University classes (NYC) / on The Eternal Light (NBC Radio) and over 100 other radio programs; guest on the Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC, NYC public radio) and other radio programs
- experienced PRODUCTION COORDINATOR (scheduling/trafficking/trouble-shooting/liaison): managed 60-journal science publishing program for Plenum Publishing
- quick study • well-organized • detail-conscious • analytical intelligence (mathematics and philosophy training at Cornell) • eclectic curiosity and interests
| For my MUSIC site, with information on my American and Jewish music lectures and radio programs; my CD, Open the Gates! and “Notes from a Musical Autobiography,” click here. |
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