Wendy Baldwin

Contact details
Donostia/San Sebastián
Gipuzkoa/Guipúzcoa
Spain
Professional profile
Activities
Editing
Training/Educating
Translating
Writing Retreats
Language pairs
French > English
Spanish > English
Areas of expertise
Education
Social Sciences
Qualifications and experience

Author's editing and translation services
I help scholars publish journal articles in fields relating to language, cognition and learning both within and across individuals and within and across societies and cultures. Within that, I work in: 

  • Linguistics and all its subfields, including psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, first and second language acquisition, cognitive and functional approaches to syntax and linguistic theory, and linguistic description
  • Language and cognitive disorders and testing
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Cognitive science
  • Second language instruction and learning; computer-mediated instruction
  • Theories and scholarship of teaching and learning, teacher training, teacher identity

And because my education and experience ranges from the more qualitative and narrative end of the spectrum and to the more quantitative and experimental end, I sometimes work in the fields of:

  • Anthropology
  • Literature
  • Peace, conflict and justice studies; international relations
  • Industrial organization, management and behavior

Writing support services
I'm a trained structured writing reteat facilitator, meaning I create and hold a space that lets academics get their writing done and out the door. I also participate in and facilitate other types of social writing, including structured co-working sessions with editors and translators in MET's Humanities and Social Sciences Hub.

I also teach academic writing seminars to developing scholar-writers.

If you're interested in collaborating, drop me a line or visit my webpage.


 

Education

  • MA in Linguistics, University at Buffalo (2001). Primary specialization in psycholinguistics; secondary specializations in discourse analysis, syntax and cognitive science. A PhD candidate, I worked in a psycholinguistics laboratory doing experimental work on human sentence processing. 
  • MA in Linguistics, California State University Long Beach (1994). Primary specialization in psycholinguistcs and discourse analysis; secondary specializations in cognitive psychology and child language acquisition.
  • BA in Linguisitcs, University of California San Diego (1989). Major in Linguistics, minor in Spanish language and literature.
Publications
  • Baldwin, W. (2023). "Meetings at the Textface: What Academics and Language Professionals Gain When They Team Up and Adopt a Social Writing Approach to Academic Text Production." In: Pais Zozimo, J., Sotejeff-Wilson, K., Baldwin, W. (eds) Women Writing Socially in Academia: Dispatches from Writing Rooms. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44977-2_13.
  • Zozimo, J.P., Sotejeff-Wilson, K., Baldwin, W. (2023). "Introduction: From Our Writing Rooms to Yours." In: Pais Zozimo, J., Sotejeff-Wilson, K., Baldwin, W. (eds) Women Writing Socially in Academia: Dispatches from Writing Rooms. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44977-2_1.
  • Pais Zozimo, J., Sotejeff-Wilson, K., Baldwin, W. (eds) Women Writing Socially in Academia: Dispatches from Writing Rooms. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44977-2.

Presentations and Panels

Service to MET

  • Vice-chair (2022-2024)
  • Promotion chair (2020-2022)
  • Local organizer, METM22
  • Hive editor (2017-2020)
Continuing professional development
METMs
Workshops
Other
  • Conference: Trabalengua, 4ª edición (online). 24-25 October 2020. 
  • Conference: 'EnClaro. Primera semana del lenguaje claro (online). 21-25 September 2020.
  • Masterclass: 'Metaphors to Write By'. Helen Sword (online). 16 July 2020.
  • Workshop: 'Getting to grips with connectors in English texts'. John Linnegar/SENSE 2020 (online). 26 June 2020.
  • Conference: SENSE 2020 (online). 3-5 June 2020.
  • Workshop: 'An iPad (and tablet) workout for language professionals'. Alexander Drechsel/SENSE (online). 23 May 2020.
  • Workshop: 'Macros for writers, editors and translators'. Paul Beverley/SENSE (online). 16 May 2020.
  • Member of SENSE, Society of English-language professionals in the Netherlands. (2020-2023).
  • Workshop: Refresher for Structured Writing Retreat Facilitators. Rowena Murray/Anchorage Education. Howwood, Scotland. 27-29 January 2020.
  • Member of Asetrad (Asociación española de traductores, correctores e interpretes) (2016-2019).
  • Conference: Trabalengua. Logroño and San Millán de al Cogolla. 9-10 November 2019. 
  • Certification: Structured Writing Retreat Facilitation Training. Rowena Murray/Anchorage Education. Gartmore, Scotland. 25-27 April 2018.
  • Webinar: 'Tips and tricks for freelance translators to optimize their website'. Tess Whitty/SDL Webinars. 15 May 2017.
  • Webinar: 'Future-proofing your translation business'. Tess Whitty/SDL Webinars. 19 April 2017.