Writing & Editing
Avonlea Communications has been involved in writing and editing projects for close to 20 years. These have included editing books, writing and editing for school textbooks and teacher guides, writing corporate newsletters, annual reports, brochures, magazine articles, a weekly newspaper column, and writing and editing a magazine for children.
There are some samples here, and of course you can
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Other writing and editing credits include:
Surviving Residential Schools—A Classroom Guide - 2004 (First Nations University of Canada)
KWD Magazine (a magazine for kids with diabetes) - 1997 -2003
Agriculture and You: A Resource Book on Agriculture - 1996 (Canadian Western Agribition)
The Sinbuster of Smoky Burn - 1992 (Whitecap Books)
Canadian Citizenship in Action - 1992 (Weigl Educational Publishers)
Robert MacNeill's Collection of Music for the Great Highland Bagpipe - 1991 (Robert MacNeill)
A High Cut Above: Music for Highland Dancing - 1991 (Simon Fraser University Pipe Band)
The Living Soil: A Renewable Resource - 1991 (Weigl Educational Publishers)
The Living Soil: Land Use and Society - 1991 (Weigl Educational Publishers)
The Living Soil—Teacher Guide (Weigl Educational Publishers)
Alberta Our Province (Weigl Educational Publishers)
Strategies for Career and Life Management—Student Journal (Weigl Educational Publishers)
Early Canada—Teacher Guide (Weigl Educational Publishers)
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This newsletter was produced for the Construction Opportunities Development Council, and distributed across Saskatchewan. Avonlea Communications did the writing and layout.
 At left, the cover of a school resource book that was completed for the First Nations University of Canada. What started as a last-minute edit turned into a re-write and design, and ultimately, a valuable classroom resource.
Other projects include writing introductions to several of the music CDs released by Lismor, which feature the teaching of the late Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, MBE. These CDs are in worldwide circulation.
 KWD Magazine was a project that ran from 1996-2003. This quarterly magazine was for "kids with diabetes" and was sponsored by various corporations with an interest in children's health. The magazine was 
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