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Scientific and Technical Translation in English (HE292)

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)
​
Translation: An Advanced Resource Book
Routledge Companion to Translation Studies
SKELL
SmartCAT
AntConc
CAPA
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PDF to TXT
​RCPCE Journal Articles Corpus

JUST FOR FUN

STUDENT BLOGS:

Alexandre
Ariane
Bel
Caroline
Consuelo
Daniele
Helena
Marianna
Osmar
Ramiro
Sabrina
Thais

WEEK 1 

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

WEEK 2

Scientific and Technical Translation in English: Week 2 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. IDENTIFY 'CARS' IN A BRAZILIAN RESEARCH ARTICLE.

  • Download here.

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. IDENTIFY 'CARS' IN 3 ENGINEERING ARTICLES.

  • Article 1
  • Article 2
  • Article 3

6. CAN YOU IDENTIFY PROBLEMS/SUGGEST CHANGES?

  • Download the unpublished manuscript and make notes.  Bring the notes to class.

WEEK 3

Scientific and Technical Translation in English - Week 3 from Ron Martinez

1. WHICH ONE DID GOOGLE DO?

  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 Translation Edit.  Compare the Translation Edit with TRANSLATION A and TRANSLATION B.  Which one is better at avoiding the problems found in the Translation Edit?

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.

3. VIDEO: FORMATTING YOUR 3-COLUMN TRANSLATION

WEEK 5-6

Scientific and technical translation in English: Weeks 5-6 from Ron Martinez

1. YOUR 'DEPOIMENTOS'

Access the Google Doc here.

2. YOUR TRANSLATIONS

  • Google Doc worked on by Caroline, Daniele, Isabel, Alexandre, Consuelo, Ramiro, and Marianna
  • WORD VERSION OF ABOVE DOC
  • Google Doc worked on by Ariane, Marianna and Sabrina
  • WORD VERSION OF ABOVE DOC

3. EXPRESS YOUR DOUBTS!

Click here to access the original version (in Portuguese) to ask the authors particular questions about the manuscript.

4. START YOUR FIRST GLOSSARIES

  • 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

Scientific and Technical Translation in English - Week 7 from Ron Martinez

1. RESPONSE FROM 'SURFING' AUTHORS

Download the response here and make final adjustments to your post-edits.

IN CASE YOU MISSED CLASS: HOW TO USE SMARTCAT

HOW TO USE IMPORTANT TOOLS IN ANTCONC


*** CLICK HERE FOR MIDTERM ***


WEEK 8

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:


  • 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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