As a researcher you can rely on me for personal, intelligent, thorough assistance with your scientific communication in English.

Editing of research manuscripts
I can edit typical research articles (usually around 15 pages or 40.000 characters including spaces) for € 300–500. Usually I can do it within one week (please don’t take this as a guarantee – ask me). Most maunscripts are edited as Word files. I can also edit texts in LaTeX, for example online in Overleaf.

Theses
Longer-form academic scientific writing such as PhD theses, etc. are tricky. A small price for me is a lot of money for you; and also I don’t want to become a coauthor of something that should be “all your own work”. But I have a solution that has worked well. I mark up corrections on paper, then sit down with you and explain them. Then you do the corrections/rewriting yourself. This is a much more efficient use of my time, you learn to write better and the work remains yours. I earn a better hourly rate, you get more value. Prices on request only, because the lengths of such texts and the amount of work needed vary a lot; but so far these jobs have come in between € 500 and € 1500.

It’s even better, of course, if you engage me earlier in the writing process and take some coaching with me!

Coaching
Do you have the feeling that you’re not making progress with your writing in English? From my experience as an editor, I see that even experienced scientists often get a bit stuck at a certain level. Despite a high level of overall English competence, some specific writing skills are still lacking. spectrum of language competence it is a high level, but still something is missing. I can help you escape from this plateau. Out of my editing and translating experience, out of books like these, and then in a course I teach, I have developed my own coaching concept to address this. Do you want to make your scientific stories and arguments more readable, and easier to understand? Or do you need to organize a long scientific text into a clear, easy-to-navigate structure? Prices: from € 60/hour. You can book just one hour (in Graz or nearby) to begin with and then we can decide whether and how, and with what goal, we want to continue.

Other media
Researchers, especially at universities, often have to communicate subject content in other media than just classic research articles. I have experience translating curricula, brochures for continuing education courses, etc. – and even subtitles for videos, including exact spotting, which you can see here: https://gmint.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/videos/