Topics edited & avoided
Gardening does not only involve pruning, cutting, weeding to help bring about beautiful blooms; it also includes the gardener's choice to keep or take away parts of the plant. Same principle applies to taking on an editorial task; Al decides which materials to work on, or which ones to avoid, depending on the subject matter of the written content. Photo of bougainvilleas is from Al's home garden (2015).
Edited
accounting
agriculture
aluminum handcraft
art
automotive
child abduction/rescue
mother's ordeal, bringing son out of Italy
back to the U.S.
Christianity
cloud computing
communication
marketing
construction
Australian construction industry
corporate globalisation
culture
dance
co-creation, research-based
dentistry
discrimination
economics
education
American-style international schools
international education
overeducation and overskilling in Malaysia
professional learning
engineering
environment
ergonomics
ethnic Chinese networks
Eurocentrism
fabric
film
finance
food
chocolate soup
gender
facilitating tension in research
government
the Great Depression
health
Asperger's syndrome
breast cancer
pregnancy
research-informed performance
tuberculosis
HR professionals
information technology
Jewish spirituality
law
marketing
medicine
HIV/AIDS
homosexuality
nasolabial folds
renin-angiotensin system
migration
professional Russian in Israel
refugee youth in Canada
nursing
leadership
practice environment
outsourcing
rape
Nicole-Subic rape case
small business enterprise
social welfare
care for grandparents looking after children of incarcerated parents
South African community
taxation
telecommunications
text-to-speech converter
Tibetan childbirth
trading
binary options
others
Avoided
content advocating
abortion
adult material
adultery
astrology
contemplative spirituality
eastern mysticism
ecumenism
evolution theory
fornication
gambling
homosexuality
horoscope
legalized pot use
meditation (chakra, guided visualization, kundalini, transcendental, etc.)
necromancy
New Age
paranormal story
plagiarized text
positive thinking
purpose-driven church, life, etc.
reiki
same-sex marriage
witchcraft
yoga
and the like