Serena Chan
Freelancing Editor
Background
Affiliations
Scribendi Inc. — Freelancing Editor
Mar 2022 – Jun 2024
Edit essays, papers, reports, and other works in the sciences, the humanities, medicine, and business, in an all-in-one service encompassing key elements of structural editing, stylistic editing, and copy editing:
Correct errors and inconsistencies in spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Correct issues in diction, usage, and style while maintaining voice and tone.
Correct or query inconsistencies in logic, facts, and details.
Recommend content addition or deletion and the reorganization or recasting of material.
Adhere to editorial style guidelines (Chicago) and ISO-certified quality standards.
The Martlet Publishing Society — Volunteer Staff Editor
Nov 2021 – Present
Act as a first or second editor in a system that assigns three editors to each article.
Edit news, lifestyle, and opinion articles for clarity, coherence, language, and style.
Verify sources, citations, and core content for accuracy, fact-checking as necessary.
Paraphrase technical information for readability, or rewrite copy for greater engagement.
Ensure adherence to journalistic standards.
Academics & Certifications
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Chemistry — Business Minor
University of Victoria
ENGL 303: Copy Editing — Grade: A+ (95%)
ENGL 135: Academic Reading and Writing — Grade: A− (82%)
Professional Editing Standards Certificate
Queen's University
Structural Editing | Stylistic Editing | Copy Editing | Proofreading
Demonstrated an ability to perform up to the professional editorial standards defined by Editors Canada for structural editing, stylistic editing, copy editing, and proofreading.
Gained credit recognized by the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, UK.
Portfolio
Editing
A List of Non-Confidential Works
Academic | Technical
ACQ Wood Preservative Toxicity.docx — copy editing
Beowulf - A Show of Hands.docx — copy editing
Crowdsourcing for Behavioral Testing.docx — copy editing
Green Hydrogen Production.docx — copy editing
"Tangling and Untangling the Trollopes" — copy editing, introduction only
Thin-Film Black Gold Membranes.docx — copy editing
Journalistic
"Ocean Networks Canada" — stylistic editing, science rewriting
"UVic Students to Blast New-Tech Satellite into Space" — copy editing, science rewriting
"The Unplugging" — stylistic editing
Informative | Expository
Salt Spring Island.docx — copy editing
Speaking Dog.docx — copy editing
Trees.docx — copy editing
Narrative | Descriptive | Literary
I Am a Challenger.docx — narrative essay — structural editing, rewriting
Finding Self-Love.docx — narrative blog post — light copy editing
Fading Scent of the Red Lilies (ch. 1–20) — danmei web fiction — stylistic editing
Editorial | Meta | Other
Proofreading Book Blurbs — an exercise
A Style Sheet made for the first 24 paragraphs of Harlem Chic
Translations
Under Construction
Other Projects
Research
The Gas-Phase Chemistry of ALD Precursor CCTBA
As part of my honours program at the University of Victoria, I conducted research for a project that was a constituent of the McIndoe Group's larger investigation into the gas-phase chemistry of the atomic layer deposition (ALD) precursor cobalt carbonyl tert-butyl acetylene (CCTBA). The aim of my thesis, specifically, was to analyse CCTBA’s rates of synthesis and its ALD-analogous fragmentation pathway, via ESI-MS and MS/MS.
Since CCTBA is neutral and is thus unobservable through mass spectrometry, we made CCTBA analogues out of charge-tagged alkynes that we had designed and synthesised.
Using collision-induced dissociation and MS/MS, we fragmented our charge-tagged CCTBA analogues and tracked the product ions’ relative concentrations over fragmentation intensity and time (i.e., over collision voltage, as seen in the x-axis below).
The brown lines in the graph show that the internal alkyne dissociates from the complex more readily compared to the terminal alkyne. Although further studies will be required in order to fully understand the results, the results suggest that cobalt ALD precursors that have been made with internal alkynes may outperform conventionally made CCTBA.
Although we also attempted to investigate and compare CCTBA’s rates of synthesis using pressurized sample infusion (PSI) and ESI-MS, our collection of high-quality rate data was hindered by the formation of synthetic byproducts within the sample-delivery system.
Future work for this project includes process optimisation for more reliable PSI data as well as computational studies for a better understanding of the experimental results.
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