Thesis and Dissertation Advisors -
Women's Studies

SUZANNE MANNESS

Specialist in APA, AAA, Harvard and Turabian Documentation.

SUZANNE MANNESS is an English professor specializing in technical and business writing. She has written and edited technical manuals, informational brochures, business proposals, and grants. She has also written computer user manuals and technical instrumentation directions. Additionally, she has edited many medical textbooks and medical articles on such subjects as heart transplants, pain management, and anesthesiology. She is an expert in all documentation systems such as Chicago Style, Harvard, APA, American Anthropological Association, and MLA. Her specialty is taking complex material and translating that material into a clear, concise, audience-friendly document.

• Technical writing and editing
• Academic/scholarly writing and editing (theses and dissertations)
• Formatting specialist: APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, Harvard, AMA, and AAA.
  Recommended by Nova Southeastern University, Capella, Walden, The University of Phoenix, and Northcentral University
• Thesis and dissertation advising

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PENNY NEWBURY

Scope: Contemporary American literature, modern British literature, linguistics, poetry, critical theory, philosophy, gender studies, health care studies, social work, psychology, non-profit management, criminal justice, international studies, political science, cultural studies, philosophy, travel narratives, linguistics, grant writing, business English.

PENNY NEWBURY holds a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in critical theory, American and modern British literature, and cultural studies. Her dissertation was a published novel. She's taught literature, creative writing, feminist criticism and theory, poetry, and linguistics. One of her specialties is translating complex concepts into prose that's easy to understand, so that these ideas can be transformed into concrete projects.

During her tenure with this network she has worked primarily as a writing advisor for dissertation and thesis development as well as professional/academic journal article development. She works closely with clients who need to focus on thesis development and defense, reviewing the important yet paradoxically often-overlooked issues of the academic vs. lay audience, the writer’s plans for future publication/expansion of the document, and the presentation of a true thesis as opposed to a mere academic exercise

CHRISTINE D. TOMEI

Scope: humanities, literature, modernism, cultural theory, linguistics, social sciences, history and culture of Russia, Serbia, Croatia.

CHRISTINE D. TOMEI has a Ph.D. from Brown University and is presently an Associate in the Slavic Seminar at Columbia University. She is a former full-time professor and recipient of multiple awards, including Fulbright and IREX. She has a published monograph in linguistics and literary theory and has contributed to intelligence in computational linguistics and linguistic theory. She is also editor of two other books, including the highly acclaimed, two-volume edition of Russian Women Writers (Garland: New York, 1999) which won a national book prize. She has published research in literature, cultural theory, folklore, modernism and women's studies. She taught international relations and comparative culture; also comparative literature, all levels of Russian language, beginning and intermediate Serbo-Croatian and translates from both languages. She also translates Italian and can read German, French and Dutch.

She has indexed scholarly publications including annotated indexes, has worked extensively in abstract writing, and has generated book-length camera-ready copy. Recently, she moved jobs to public administration and has finished coursework toward a Masters in Public Administration with a major in systems management. She has helped design and implement curriculum including research design.