Astrid Baker
Experienced freelancer with BA Hons, MA and PhD degrees can help you with research, writing, rewriting, editing and proofreading. Works regularly via web sites and e-mail for New Zealand and overseas clients.
Astrid Baker
Experienced freelancer with BA Hons, MA and PhD degrees can help you with research, writing, rewriting, editing and proofreading. Works regularly via web sites and e-mail for New Zealand and overseas clients.
Local Availability: Can travel in Auckland (city and North Shore)to meet local clients.
Media Experience
Biographical Note
Astrid can help you with substantive editing to improve content and scope, detailed editing section by section, proofreading, researching, writing and rewriting. She has been a successful researcher and publisher’s editor in London and New Zealand, and for many years a university lecturer in New Zealand. The underlying skills of her degrees are critical reading, clear writing, and assessing and constructing a coherent argument.
She is happy to work on topics in the humanities, especially history including art history, commerce, management, sociology, law including intellectual property and medical ethics, and some economics. She also enjoys working on biological science topics. In 2006 she began editing fiction and poetry. She has experience in editing and writing books, journal articles, research reports, conference papers, and PhD and masters theses. Her articles have been published in international academic journals, including Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History, and in local journals, including New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, New Zealand Journal of History, New Zealand Medical Journal and National Business Review.
Currently she is working for Scribendi Inc., English language and proofreading services in Canada, Dove Medical Press in New Zealand, and various individuals. She is familiar with the principles of the Chicago Manual of Style, Harvard style, MLA style and APA style.
Published WritingsAstrid Baker, 1998. Glaxo’s ulcer drug Zantac and the patent system in New Zealand. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly 4(2) 72-86.
Astrid Baker, 1998. An unlimited liability: Free medicines and the New Zealand Social Security Act 1938. New Zealand Journal of History 32(2) 143-162.
Astrid Baker, 1998. Doctors, capitation payments and the first Labour Government. New Zealand Medical Journal 111(1079) 477-480.
Astrid Baker, 1999. Holding down drug costs. Journal of Law and Medicine 7(2), 140-146.
Astrid Baker and Daniel Hampton. 2000. Protecting plant breeders’ investment: patents and new plant cultivars in New Zealand. New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal 2(9), 269-275.
Astrid Baker, 2002. Public and private enterprise: Fletcher Construction and the building of New Zealand. Essays in Economic & Business History 20, 39-55.
Astrid Baker, 2004. Governments, firms, and national wealth: a new pulp and paper industry in postwar New Zealand. Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History 5(4), 669-690. www.es.oxfordjournals.org
Astrid Baker, 2005. The first Labour Government’s New Start for Manufacturing, Employment, and Social Security in New Zealand 1935-1949. Business and Economic History On-Line 3. http://www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/
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Contact Details
Astrid Baker, 5A Long Bay Drive, Torbay, North Shore 0630.
Tel 64 9 473 9555 Mobile 021 038 3258
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