Effective Tips for Improving Your English Writing Skills
Enhance your English writing skills by following basic rules such as writing concise sentences, avoiding subordination, and using active voice. Learn to structure your drafts effectively and handle language nuances for better communication.
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Pre-editing Anthony Pym
Activity 1 Working in twos or threes, where you share the same LOTE: Find an official text in your L1 (just one or two sentences) that explains when you can get a COVID booster shot if you have had COVID. Put that text through MT. Pre-edit the ST so that any errors are avoided and the text is actionable. List the kinds of changes you made (e.g. verbs, nouns, tenses).
Activity 1: Predicted answers The main MT errors are: - Syntax in long sentences - Pronouns - Gendered articles and adjectives - Cultural references - Implicit information
Basic rules for basic English Write sentences of fewer than 25 words. Authors will approach any writing project by collecting the necessary information first, and after carefully analyzing and evaluating it, they will create a structured draft. (25 words) The author performs the following tasks: - Collect the necessary information. - Analyze and evaluate the information. - Write a structured draft. Note: The Chinese sentence need not end when a new subject enters.
Basic rules for basic English Avoid subordination. When students write essays, which should be handed in at the time stipulated by the authorities, they must apply the style sheet. Students must hand in essays at the time that the authorities stipulate. Students must apply the style sheet.
Basic rules for basic English Write in the active voice. A summary of questions will be sent to the responsible individuals. The program manager will send a summary of questions to the responsible individuals.
Basic rules for basic English Avoid proforms (i.e. pronouns and deictics): You must check the spelling of your text before publishing it. You must check the spelling before publishing your text. Come and see me then. Come and see me at noon. Estimadxs colegas, El Grupo de Investigadores en Memorias y Artes Latinoamericanas (GIMAL) formado por acad micxs asociadxs a universidades de cinco pa ses
Removing anaphora (from Sara Castagnoli) The chimp eats the banana because it is greedy. The chimp eats the banana. The chimp is greedy. The greedy chimp eats the banana. The chimp eats the banana because it is ripe. The chimp eats the banana. The banana is ripe. The chimp eats the ripe banana. The chimp eats the banana because it is lunchtime. It is lunchtime and the chimp eats the banana. At lunchtime and the chimp eats the banana.
Basic rules for basic English For the same content, repeat the same phrase. After unpacking the printer from the shipping carton, take the printer out of the plastic bag. Lift the scanner from the shipping box. Discard all packaging material. Remove the printer from the shipping carton. Remove the printer from the plastic bag. Remove the scanner from the shipping carton. Remove the scanner from the plastic bag.
Basic rules for basic English Write grammatically complete sentences. Will this be allowed? Not on my watch. Sar consentito? Non sul mio orologio. For as long as I am here, this will be prohibited. Finch sar qui, questo sar proibito.
Basic rules for basic English 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Write sentences of fewer than 25 words. Avoid subordination. Write in the active voice. Avoid proforms. For the same content, repeat the same phrase. Write grammatically complete sentences. And one more: 7. Avoid culture-specific idioms (e.g. on my watch )
Your mission 1. Working in pairs where possible, select a raw "Wonderful Moment" text in a language you can edit. This is your ST1. 2. Apply the pre-editing rules to the text, producing ST2. CHECK HOW LONG IT TAKES YOU TO DO THE PRE-EDITING. That time will be t(ST2) 3. Run both ST1 and ST2 through MT into another language that you can edit, producing TT1 and TT2. 4. When possible, get a fellow student to post-edit both TT1 and TT2, RECORDING THE TIME FOR BOTH. These times will be t(TT1) and t(TT2) respectively. 5. Calculate if pre-editing is worthwhile. That is, is t(ST2) < (t(TT1) t(TT2))? If it is not worthwhile, will it be worthwhile if the ST has to go into five or ten languages or so?
Solving problems So how can we get a city of 5 million people with 260 languages to accept vaccination in the face of negative campaigns and conspiracy claims?
Triage Scenarios 1. A Ukrainian immigrant wants vaccination. The immigrant only speaks Ukrainian. 2. A Victorian vaccination website has to go into 180 languages. 3. The Premier of PR China wants to congratulate the new Prime Minister of Australia 4. Tonight s television news wants to give details about monkeypox and they have found a new scientific study published in Chinese. 5. Is monkeypox is being reported in North Korea? 6. An Australian hamburger chain wants to open in PR China. 7. A Chinese university website has been updated and I want to update its translation into English. Workflows: Raw MT Pre-editing Light post-editing Heavy post-editing A TM suite Fully human translation with no revision Collaborative translation by a group of volunteers Collaborative translation by a group of professionals from different areas Fully human translation with double revision/review
