Paul Listen, Ph.D.
Editorial and
Translation Services
P.Pubs@comcast.net
12 NORTH SUMMIT DR
BELLINGHAM, WA 98229-7810
USA
phone +1 (234) 564-3256
SERVICES
Editorial services to individuals and organizations
with content in any sort of medium, including handwritten documents,
traditional print materials, Web pages, Web-based training, e-books, CDROMs,
videos, and multimedia works. I have worked for publishers such as McGraw-Hill
Education, Cengage Learning, and Vista Higher Learning.
The sorts of tasks I typically complete
are:
Development editing (German as a foreign
language, grammar, linguistics, history, music, technical training,
instructional design)
Copy editing (electronic or paper
ms; style markup coding per specs; heavy or light line edit to any style guide
you specify)
Proofreading (cold proof, pages
against fouls, or whatever your needs are)
Translation (general and
technical: German to English)
Translation (genealogy) German Translation Services
EDUCATION
PhD, German, University of California
at Berkeley
MA, German, University of Oklahoma
BA, German, University of Oklahoma
SKILLS AND
SPECIALIZATIONS
Subject Matter Expertise: German language,
literature, and linguistics; foreign language learning; genealogy; history;
music; computer software and hardware; technical instructional materials;
archaic German; German dialects; and old handwriting and scripts.
Tools: Facility with ABBYY
Finereader, Acrobat Pro, FrameMaker, FTP, HTML, Microsoft Office (Outlook,
Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PaintShop Pro, Perl, Photoshop, PowerDVD, MS Project,
MS Publisher, Quickbase, Quicktime, Roxio, SDLX Translation Suite, SnagIt,
Telnet, and Windows.
Foreign Languages: I can read, write,
and speak German fluently; read Latin, French, Dutch, and Low German; and have
basic conversational Japanese skills.
FEES
I will work either hourly or for a flat
fee. The rate depends on the type of work and level of expertise. For example,
for editing I generally charge $50 per hour or $10 per page. Feel free to
contact me to discuss your project. We can then determine if my services match
your needs and how much it will cost. I request payment within 60 days of
invoicing, typically by cash, check, or money order. I usually bill clients
monthly when they have long term projects.
PORTFOLIO
Product developer
of Deutsch: Na klar! (8e) New York: McGraw-Hill, 2020.
Product developer
of Kontakte (8e) New York: McGraw-Hill, 2017.
Product developer
of Deutsch: Na klar! (7e) New York: McGraw-Hill, 2016.
Development editor
of Welten: Introductory German (1e) Boston: Cengage, 2016.
Author of German
Ihr Gnaden: A Case Study in Historical Pragmatics and Grammaticalization. Ewemeoui
Press, 2015.
Development editor
of Vorsprung (3e) text for beginning German, with supplements. Boston:
Cengage, 2014.
Development editor
of Kontakte (7e) beginning German student text, instructor text, and
various supplements. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2013.
Development editor
of Stationen (2e) text for intermediate German, with supplements.
Boston: Cengage, 2012.
Development editor
of Deutsch: Na klar! (6e) textbook, workbook, lab manual, audioscript,
audio programs and video program. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2012.
Development editor of Anders gedacht
(2e) text for intermediate German, with supplements. Boston: Cengage Learning,
2011.
Proofreader of Wie
geht's? (9e) text for beginning German. Boston: Cengage, 2011.
Development editor
of German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany. Columbia
UP, 2011.
Author of The Semiotics of
(Im)Polite Address in Joachim Meichel's 1635 German Translation of Cenodoxus:
Der Doctor von Paris , self-published ebook, 2011.
Development editor
of German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory. Routledge,
2010.
Development editor of Deutsch heute
(9e) text for beginning German, with supplements. Boston: Cengage Learning,
2010.
Copy editor of Neue
Horizonte (7e) iLrn Testing Program, Boston: Cengage, 2009.
Development editor of Kontakte
(6e) beginning German student text, instructor text, workbook/lab manual, audio
programs, ancillaries. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2009.
Development editor of Deutsch: Na
klar! (5e) beginning German student text, instructor text, workbook/lab
manual, audio programs, ancillaries. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Author of Big Yellow Book of German
Verbs exercise CD-ROM, McGraw Hill, 2007.
Development editor of Wie geht’s? (8e)
beginning German student text, instructor text, workbook/lab manual, audio
programs. Boston: Heinle, 2006.
Reviewer of
Susanne Mühleisen’s and Bettina Migge’s (2005) Politeness and Face in
Caribbean Creoles, in Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics
and Semiotic Analysis 11(2), 2006, pp. 245-272.
Copy editor of Vorsprung
(2e) text for beginning German. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Lead author of Big Yellow Book of
German Verbs, McGraw Hill, 2005.
Indexer of Geoff
Barker’s Intonation Patterns in Tyrolean German. New York: Peter Lang,
2005.
Author for
ProQuest Information and Learning, Louisville, KY. I wrote English-language
abstracts of articles in German-language periodicals.
Development editor of Anders gedacht
(1e) intermediate German student text, workbook/lab manual, audio program,
instructor resources. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2005.
Copy editor of Allerlei zum Lesen
(2e) student text. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Development editor of Kontakte (5e)
beginning German student text, instructor text, workbook/lab manual,
audioscript, audio programs, video, testbank, instructor's manual, and CD-ROM.
Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2005.
Development editor of Deutsch: Na
klar! (4e) beginning German workbook, lab manual, audioscript, and audio
programs. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2004.
Development editor of Deutsch heute
CDROM (8e) for beginning German. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2004.
Author of Instructor’s Integration
Guide to accompany Neue Horizonte (6e) for beginning German, Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin, 2003.
Development editor of the Web/CD-based
interactive title Business Requirements Mapping for Technical Consultants.
San Mateo, CA: Siebel Systems, 2002.
Translator (Eng > Ger) of Siebel
7 Requirements Mapping: Praktische Übungen. San Mateo, CA: Siebel Systems,
2002.
Translator (Eng > Ger) of Siebel
SupportWeb Technischer-Support Alerts. San Mateo, CA: Siebel Systems,
2001-2002.
Copy editor of Siebel 7 Core
Consultant Course: Arbeitsheft. San Mateo, CA: Siebel Systems, 2001-2002.
Copy editor of Siebel
7 Essentials: Arbeitsheft and Praktische Übungen. San Mateo, CA: Siebel
Systems, 2001-2002.
Copy editor of Siebel 7 Requirements
Mapping: Arbeitsheft and Praktische Übungen. San Mateo, CA: Siebel
Systems, 2001-2002.
Co-author of “PC aspects of human nouns
in German,” New Insights in Germanic Linguistics II, NY: Peter Lang,
2001, pp. 95-134.
Copy editor of Siebel 7 Core
Consultant Course: Student Guide and Instructor Guide. San Mateo,
CA: Siebel Systems, 2001.
Copy editor of Siebel 7 Essentials:
Student Guide, Instructor Guide, and Lab Manual. San Mateo,
CA: Siebel Systems, 2001.
Copy editor of Siebel eBusiness
Essentials, ver 6.5: Arbeitsheft and Praktische Übungen. San
Mateo, CA: Siebel Systems, 2001.
Assisted development of Kontakte
(4e) for beginning German. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2000.
Development editor of the video-based Fokus
Deutsch: Beginning German 1 and Fokus Deutsch: Beginning German 2,
student and instructor editions. Boston: WGBH/CPB/McGraw Hill, 2000. Six months
as lead development editor and coordinating editor for the program; coordinated
initial integration with McDougal Littell's German program Auf Deutsch!
Co-author of “Bay Area German Project
VI: Toward a Grammar of German E-mail,” New Insights in Germanic Linguistics
I, NY: Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 181-199.
Development editor of Deutsch: Na
klar! (3e) student and instructor editions, workbook, lab manual, tapescript,
testbank, video, and audio programs. Boston: McGraw Hill College, 1999.
Author of the monograph The
Emergence of German Polite Sie: Cognitive and Sociolinguistic Parameters,
NY: Peter Lang, 1999.
Author of “The emergence of polite Sie
in Early New High German,” New Insights in Germanic Linguistics I. NY:
Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 123-141.
Author of “Middle Low German Adverbial
-liken, -likes, -lik,” Interdigitations: Essays for
Irmengard Rauch, NY: Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 295-304.
Assisted research for the compact disc Anton
Liste: Bassoon Sonata, Piano Sonatas, GMCD 7154, Ramsen, Switzerland: Guild
Music Ltd., 1998.
Co-author of “Bay Area German Project
V: PC German,” Insights in Germanic Linguistics II: Classic and Contemporary,
Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996, pp.
207-226.
Assisted development of Routledge
Dictionary of Language and Linguistics, Routledge, 1996.
Reviewer of
Veronika Ehrich’s (1992) Hier und Jetzt: Studien zur lokalen und temporalen
Deixis im Deutschen, in Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic
Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 1(1), Spring 1996, pp. 147-154.
Author of “Clause linkage typology:
Luther 1522 versus Luther 1546,” American Journal of Germanic Linguistics
and Literatures, 7(1), January 1995, pp. 59-83.
Reviewer of Jackie Pocklington’s (1990)
Charles Carpenter Fries: the Humanist, the Linguist, the Teacher, in Studies
in Language 19(2), 1995, pp. 584-586.
