Caroline Hynds – Freelance Editor and Writer

During the past three months, I have had my first experience in authoring new ELT digital activities, and I absolutely loved it.

The first opportunity came about because I was initially booked in as the content editor for a C2 course, but the author dropped out. Having already edited the C1 title in the series, the project manager was confident I could handle the authoring stage, so I upgraded to content creation. I authored 99 British English activities, including creating the scoping spreadsheet, allocating the interactive templates and authoring them within Macmillan Education’s CAPE platform.

Before that work had even finished, another writing opportunity came my way, authoring 122 additional exercises to take an existing second edition into a digital third edition, this time for an American English B2-level course. It was a similar process following the stages of content scoping, template allocation, activity authoring and building in CAPE.

Both jobs were thoroughly enjoyable not just because they gave me the opportunity to exercise my writing skills but also because they were professionally briefed, with the in-house team offering real support to their freelance colleagues. Here’s to more of the same in the near future!