Lyndee Johns

360-980-6958 · lyndeejohns@comcast.net ·linkedin.com/in/lyndee-johns

EDUCATION
B.A. English, editing and creative writing minors
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT April 2020
• Related Coursework:
o Modern American Usage—learned correct terms of usage and punctuation
o Basic Editing Skills—practiced substantive editing and copyediting, as well as became
familiarized with the Chicago Manual of Style
o Genre and Substantive Editing—practiced substantive editing with chapters from nonfiction
and fiction works
o Editing for Publication—took a YA book through the publishing process
o Writing for Children and Adolescents—wrote approximately 40 pages of a young adult novel

WRITING EXPERIENCE

PR Assistant
Brigham Young University College of Nursing, Provo, UT Jan 2020–Present

• Wrote and published two to three news articles per week for the BYU College of Nursing blog
Learning the Healer’s Art
• Conducted two to three interviews per week with nursing students, alumni, and faculty members
• Wrote a faculty spotlight for the BYU College of Nursing magazine Learning the Healer’s Art

EDITING EXPERIENCE

Editorial Assistant
Brigham Young University’s Department of Continuing Education, Provo, UT Sept 2017–Jan 2020

• Proofread and wrote visual descriptions for over 40 video transcripts for a variety of online classes
• Collaborated with scrum teams of five to six people, working on communication, language, and
business-centered projects
• Built and edited online course material for high school classes
• Edited approximately 20 PowerPoint slide decks for online BYU and high school courses

PROJECTS

Editing of a Young Adult Novel

Project for Brigham Young University’s Editing for Publication class, Provo, UT Jan 2018–Apr 2019

• Collaborated with four other editors

• Attended meetings to discuss direction of novel and division of labor
• Created substantive edits for 42 pages of the novel

COMPUTER SKILLS
• Microsoft Word: Proficient
• WordPress: Proficient