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      • Scientific and Technical Translation in English
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Scientific and Technical Translation in English (HE292)

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Selected Readings

Selected Links

 "On linguistic aspects of translation" (Jakobson 1959)
​"Lost without translation - scientific research" (Times Higher Education)
"The impact of translation technologies on the process and product of translation" (Doherty 2016)
"Research article introductions: A comparison between Brazilian Portuguese and English​" (Hirano, 2009)
"Post-Editing Machine Translation: Worth the Effort?" (Koponen, 2016)
​Learn about Google's new Neural Machine Translation system, the GNMT (2016)
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Translation: An Advanced Resource Book
Routledge Companion to Translation Studies
OneLook Dictionary Search
​SKELL
COCA
SmartCAT
AntConc
CAPA
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PDF to TXT
​RCPCE Journal Articles Corpus

JUST FOR FUN

EXAMPLE OF FINAL PROJECT:

CLICK HERE

WEEK 1 

Scientific and Technical Translation in English - Week 1 2019 from Ron Martinez

WEEK 2

Scientific and Technical Translation in English - Week 2 2019 from Ron Martinez

1. SHARE YOUR TRANSLATIONS HERE.

  • 'ENERGY SAVING' Translation
  • 'COCAMAR' Translation

2. COMPARE THE SECTIONS OF TWO ARTICLES.

  • ARTICLE 1 
  • ARTICLE 2

3. WHY DO ARTICLES GET REJECTED?

  • Belcher (2007)
  • Bordage (2001)
  • Sullivan (2002)
  • McKercher et al. (2007)

4. ANALYZE AN ARTICLE THAT NEEDS REVISION.

  • Download the article and focus on the title, abstract and introduction.  What issues are there?
  • Also download the Comments from the Reviewers, focusing especially on Reviewer 2's comments.

5. CAN YOU IDENTIFY PROBLEMS/SUGGEST CHANGES?

  • Download the unpublished manuscript and read pages 1-5.   Why might an editor reject this manuscript?  Make notes and bring the notes to class.

WEEK 3

Scientific and technical translation in English - week 3 2019 from Ron Martinez

1. HUMAN OR MACHINE?

  1. Download the Original Portuguese Article, then compare TRANSLATION A and TRANSLATION B.  Which one was done by Google translate?  What features help you arrive at your answer?
  2. Download the  Site Text for Translation here.   Remember to time yourself according to your assigned number.

WEEK 4

Scientific and technical translation in English week 4 from Ron Martinez

1. SITE TEXT TRANSLATION: CLASS ACTIVITY

Click on your "fruit" below:
  • APPLE
  • BANANA
  • KIWI
  • LEMON
  • AVOCADO
  • STRAWBERRY

2. YOUR FIRST RESEARCH ARTICLE TRANSLATION

  1. Download the article here.
  2. Make sure you understand the point of the article before translating.  Is the "story" being told well?  Any questions you should ask the authors before you begin?

3. SLIDESHOW: FORMATTING YOUR 3-COLUMN TRANSLATION

3 column step-by-step from Ron Martinez

WEEK 5-6

Scientific and Technical Translation in English - Week 5 from Ron Martinez

GLOSSARIES EXAMPLES

  • Click here to open the Excel spreadsheet and start adding bilingual terms related to Methods.
  • Click here  to add new terms to the 'Connectives' glossary.

 WEEK 7- MIDTERM (April 4th, 2019)


WEEK 8

Scientific and technical translation in English - Week 8 from Ron Martinez

1. CORPUS ACTIVITY

- FOOD SCIENCE CORPUS
- REFERENCE CORPUS

IN CASE YOU MISSED CLASS: HOW TO USE SMARTCAT

HOW TO USE IMPORTANT TOOLS IN ANTCONC

WEEK 9-10 Final articles

Scientific and technical translation in English - Week 10 2019 from Ron Martinez

 *** SLIDES FROM 2017 COURSE BELOW ***


Scientific and technical translation in English - Week 8 from Ron Martinez

REFERENCE TRANSLATIONS

Abstract 1
Abstract 2

WEEK 10

Scientific and Technical Translation in English - Week 10 from Ron Martinez
THE "SURF" TRANSLATION: EDITED

FINAL ARTICLES FOR TRANSLATION:

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  • Group 1 - Social Sciences
  • Members: Consuelo and Ariane
  • Article:  "Transferência de Conhecimento e Tecnologia no Contexto do Desenvolvimento Sustentável em Organizações: Proposição de Modelo Teórico"

  • Group 2 - Natural Sciences
  • Members: Caroline and Daniele
  • Article: "Soluções de Equilíbrios de Solos Contaminados com Chumbo e Remediados com Fosfatos"
 
  • Group 3 - Applied Sciences
  • Members: Alexandre, Isabel and Marianna
  • Article:  "Tratamento de Paralisia Palpebral em Falcão-Caburé (Micrastur Ruficollis) através da Acupuntura: Relato de Caso"
 
  • Group 4 - Humanities
  • Members: Helena, Sabrina and Thais
  • Article: "Ensaio sobre as promessas constitucionais de democracia e república"
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