Translating and Editing for Polish Translators

This course emphasises the importance of editing and self-revising in translation. It is aimed at translators and translation students with Polish as their mother tongue, both newcomers and established professionals who wish to develop an awareness of norms of clear, smooth and correct writing, improve their self-revision abilities and learn to revise and proofread the work of others. Based on the recognition of the importance of constant practice in the mother tongue (Polish in this case), especially when living in a foreign country, this course will focus on ways to avoid linguistic interference and produce naturally sounding translations tailored to the given readership.

Areas covered:

1. Editing and revising: concepts and definitions.
2. Copyediting: syntax, collocations, usage, punctuation, spelling, house style. Most common pitfalls in English to Polish translation.
3. Stylistic editing. Turning a draft translation into an accurate and readable work that is publishable.
4. Translation proofreading. Quality assurance for translation industry.

BIOGRAPHY: Agata is a professional linguist (MA in English and Translation, Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists) and a full-time English to Polish translator with
6 years experience of translation, proofreading, editing, reviewing, terminology research as well as translation/interpreting teaching and training. She has taught general and specialist translation at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels in Poland. Since 2003 she has been translating English-language academic literature (10 books published to date) and working as a translator, proofreader and translation reviewer for a leading Polish publishing house and translation agencies in the UK, US and Spain.