Marie-Louise Antoni
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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • TEARSHEETS + PORTFOLIO
  • ---------------------------------------------
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Carving up Africa | Mining
  • Dogs of Louwville | Welfare
  • White Gold | Abalone Farming
  • Xenos | Anti-Immigrant Violence
  • Sisters, Brothers | Rastafari
  • Goodbye Blue Sky | Fictions
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  Marie-Louise Antoni
info@marielouiseantoni.com   |   +27 (0) 72 618 9440  [South Africa]
  • Translation
  • Copywriting
  • Editing + Proofreading
  • Research
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​Source language(s):  French, Afrikaans
Target language: English (native)
Specialisation: law, international development, corporate, general
 
My first translation assignment landed on my desk in 2004, when I was still a law student.  Since then I’ve worked on many different projects – both for direct clients and translation agencies. I now specialise in legal, international development and corporate documents. My experience includes: project management, editing high volume projects, and creating style guides and glossaries.
 
Recent work:
  • judicial liquidation (10 000 words)
  • arbitration: sport (5500 words)
  • securities fraud (2500 words)
  • surveillance contract: oil industry (3500 words)
  • intercreditor agreement (9100 words)
  • mining agreement and EIA (45 000 words)
  • international development: programme outline (2400 words)
  • academic transcripts (3000 words)
  • framework agreement: perfume industry (9000 words)
  • tax law: France (12 000 words)
  • International Red Cross documents (2000 words)
  • international development: Rwandan relief organisation (1000 words)
  • international development (2000 words)
  • IT contract: hospitality industry (4000 words)
  • e-commerce website (2800 words)
​I like words, ideas and concepts, so I lend my pen to SMEs and nonprofits who need to tell their stories. My previous clients have ranged from small grassroots NGOs to large development organisations. I can help with:
  • report writing
  • case studies
  • press releases
  • newsletters
  • proposals and grant writing
  • ghostwriting
  • campaign slogans and taglines
  • copywriting for print
  • digital content: website copy; basic SEO writing; blogging (Wordpress)
  • social media management and strategy
​I help clients untangle their sentences by excavating the right words, shuffling them around, and putting them in the best order (editing). I also scratch out errant apostrophes, quieten exclamations, and calm down excitable caps (proofreading).
In sum, after consultation and depending on whether your work needs a lighter or heavier touch, I can:
  • correct punctuation, grammar and spelling
  • detect stylistic and semantic errors
  • ensure consistent terminology
  • create internal reference documents (client glossaries and style guides)
​Organisations hire me to find, organise and distil information.
I’ve worked on a range of projects: from monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to long-term investigations and in-depth report writing. I’m comfortable handling large volumes of documents and data and know how to extract information. My experience and skills include:  
  • research design
  • developing research plans
  • survey techniques and methods, including questionnaire design
  • extensive literature review
  • creating authoritative summaries (understanding what is and what isn’t important)
  • interpreting the research context (political, social)
  • finding and defining research sources
  • recognising ethical issues and conflicts
  • referencing and bibliographic skills
  • field work experience
  • interviewing skills
  • report writing: writing and language skills
  • software skills
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