Freelance Editor (Remote): Literature Study Guides
Are you an experienced editor with a love of literature and the desire to work from home? We are looking for skilled, passionate editors to contribute to our literature study guide company and our mission to help learners of all ages get more out of the books they read! Our freelance editors help develop and polish study guides across literary genres and are part of a like-minded content team that is passionate about literature and education.
Whether you’re a teacher or post-grad student looking for a steady stream of income or an experienced freelance editor ready for reliable and enjoyable assignments, editing literature study guides with SuperSummary could be your dream job.
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About us:
SuperSummary is a fast-growing literature study guide company that helps students, teachers, and everyday readers understand a variety of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry texts. Our study guides are authoritative and comprehensive, written by seasoned teachers, professors, and advanced-degree holders with years of experience in their fieldsincluding the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. As a fully remote team, we’re able to harness creative talent from across the world in order to create study guides that exceed readers’ expectations.
About you:
We’re looking for editors who will be responsible for ensuring the quality of each study guide before it is made available to our customers. Our editors serve primarily as developmental editors, bolstering the summaries and literary analysis set forth by our writers, but all editors should also be skilled in copyediting. We expect our editors to evaluate the quality of the ideas presented by our writers, rewrite where necessary to improve the clarity and pace, and demonstrate strong attention to detail. We are keenly interested in developing steady, long-term relationships with editors who want to contribute to our growing team while maintaining a flexible schedule.
About the study guides:
Our study guides have a length of 5,00025,000 words, depending on the length and complexity of the text at hand
Guides include a balanced combination of summary and analysis, including chapter summaries and analyses, themes, symbols, and more
Fiction book titles we’ve covered include Exhalation (Ted Chiang), Deacon King Kong (James McBride), and Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Nonfiction book titles we’ve covered include The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Dan Egan), The Ballot or the Bullet (Malcolm X), and Helter Skelter (Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry)
Middle grade/YA book titles we’ve covered include The Inquisitor’s Tale (Adam Gidwitz), Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson), and Front Desk (Kelly Lang)
Poetry titles we’ve covered include “Ozymandias” (Percy Bysshe Shelley), “We Real Cool” (Gwendolyn Brooks), and “An American Sunrise” (Joy Harjo)
Theater titles we’ve covered include Antigone (Sophocles), A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry), and Amadeus (Peter Shaffer)
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