Malia Cohen

Focus on helping to perfect details of grammar and style, checking for content accuracy and formatting consistency, and other improvements to text for publication.

 

maliacohen (@) comcast.net

Documentation Specialist / Instructional Designer:  Develop and organize, or obtain source materials and/or information. Develop manuals and instructional materials.  Identify the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs and teaching or instructing others.

 Copy Editor / Editor In Chief:  Read transcripts and proof type setup to detect and mark for correction  of grammatical, typographical, and compositional errors. Compare content and data to original information and check references with rules of grammar and composition.

Key Activities

  • Gathering information

  • Documenting information

  • Communicating with supervisors, peers, and subject matter experts

  • Evaluating information

  • Thinking creatively

  • Face-to-face discussions

Skills & Abilities

  • Writing, reading comprehension, critical thinking, and learning strategies

  • Time management, complex problem solving, judgment, and decision making

  • Active learning, active listening, coordination, information ordering

  • Organizing, planning, and prioritizing work

  • Work with work group team as well as work independently

Character Strengths

  • Attention to Detail

  • Adaptability

  • Flexibility

  • Cooperation

  • Dependability

  • Persistence

  • Innovation

  • Analytical Thinking

  • Independence

  • Initiative

Tasks & Knowledge

  • Complete writing according to customer needs and standards, maintaining clarity, style, and consistency

  • Meet with subject matter experts to determine accuracy and completeness of information provided

  • Edit, standardize, and modify content based on customer consultation and product needs

  • Organize materials prepared by multiple writers, editing for consistency, standardization, and clarity

  • Interview personnel to collect information, drawings, diagrams, charts, and other content

  • Operate desktop publishing software and equipment to design, lay out, and produce documentation

  • Importance of being exact and accurate

Tools & Technology

  • Desktop computers

  • Scanners

  • Word processing software

  • Desktop publishing software

Employment Summary

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