| Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
| Professional English-Spanish Translation (2015) |
 Subjects |
| REVISING, EDITING AND POST-EDITING TRANSLATED TEXTS (SPANISH-ENGLISH) |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2022_23 |
| Subject | REVISING, EDITING AND POST-EDITING TRANSLATED TEXTS (SPANISH-ENGLISH) | Code | 12845108 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 3 | Compulsory | First | 2Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Part 1. An overview of editing and revising | Definitions Editors and revisers Four types of editing Degrees of editing |
| Part 2. Copy editing | Introduction to copy editing; the pre-set rules. House Style; style manuals and publishers’ style sheets. Spelling; spelling mistakes and typographical errors; spellchecker; proper nouns, compound words and homophones; British & American spelling. Idiomaticity; idioms & idiomaticity; subject-verb agreement; false friends, fickle friends & faithful friends. Punctuation; basic rules; the comma: the comma splice, relative clauses, the serial comma, a history of the comma; the modern approach to comma use; colons and semi-colons; the hyphen and the en-dash. Usage; non-inclusive language; split infinitives; dangling participles. |
| Part 3. Style editing (stylistic transposition) | Introduction to style editing; clarity & concision; the historical context; writing to impress vs. writing to express; foggy language; readability statistics: the Gunning Fog Index, the Flesch Reading Ease and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level; writing guidelines for clarity and concision. Write tight: writing longer sentences; writing shorter sentences; lists; redundancies; verbosity. Prefer verbs: nominalisations. Use parallel structure: bulleted lists. Prefer the active voice: the active vs passive debate. Get personal: impersonal writing; personal pronouns. Small is beautiful: circumlocutions; multisyllabic words; specialised terminology. Avoid ambiguity: misplaced modifiers; unclear antecedents. Start strong: expletives. Be positive: negatives and double negatives. Cut the strings: prepositional strings. |
| Part 4. Revising | Revision techniques Self-revision Order of operations Revising other people's work Principles for making corrections to a draft translation |
