StudioGraphia News & Events
The Tucson Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association and StudioGraphia announce their second annual workshop for freelance writers and editors: How Much Should I Charge?!
TUCSON, ARIZONA – The Tucson Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association and StudioGraphia present our second annual Discussion Forum: How Much Should I Charge?! Or How to Win Clients, Influence Your Own Prosperity, and Bid a Project in 5 Minutes or Less (and Other Tricks of the Trade) on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 5:15-7:15 p.m., at The Historic Y Conference Room. 300 E. University Blvd./738 N. 5th Ave.
This will be a working meeting, so come prepared with a notebook and pen and/or laptop computer, a calculator, a list of all business expenses, and goals for financial prosperity. We will create reference charts so we will never again spend hours calculating project bids. We will address pragmatic concerns involved in supporting ourselves as professional writers and editors in the freelance market.
Heather Severson, Mercenary Writer & Gypsy Scholar, will facilitate the workshop. Heather is the owner StudioGraphia, LLC, a freelance writers’ cooperative that provides services in writing, editing, instruction, research and design. In 2010, she managed a team of 25 writers for a project that brought in nearly six figures.
The Editorial Freelancers Association includes editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, translators, and others who offer a broad range of skills and specialties. EFA is a national not-for-profit —501(c)6— organization, headquartered in New York City, run almost entirely by volunteers. Its members, experienced in a wide range of professional skills, live and work in the United States and a variety of other countries.
News from the Advanced Placement Program®
Local Educator Selected to Participate in Advanced Placement Program Reading
June 23, 2011 – Heather Severson was selected to participate in the annual Reading and scoring of the College Board’s Advanced Placement Examinations this June in English Language.
The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP®) gives more than 1.8 million capable high school students an opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses and examinations. Based on their exam performance, successful students can receive credit and/or advanced placement when they enter college.
This year, more than 3.2 million examinations from more than 30 AP Courses were evaluated by over 10,000 AP Readers from universities and high schools. Representing many of the finest academic institutions in the world, AP Readers are made up of professional educators from the United States, Canada and abroad. The AP Reading is a unique forum in which an academic dialogue between high school and college educators is fostered and strongly encouraged.
“The Reading draws upon the talents of some of the finest teachers and professors that the world has to offer,” said Trevor Packer, vice president of the Advanced Placement Program at the College Board. “It fosters professionalism, allows for the exchange of ideas, and strengthens the commitment to students and to teaching. We are very grateful for the contributions of talented educators like Heather Severson."