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(http://tinyurl.com/4or374) Letter supporting the letter by William Aghassi ibid. 60(10)12 but going further, saying “Actually credentials also mean little today, unless your research is in a trendy topic like string theory and you write from a famous university like MIT, Cambridge University, Imperial College or Caltech. Gatekeepers and editors shun originality.” Maher A, Waller S, Kerans ME. Acquiring or enhancing a translation specialism: the monolingual corpus-guided approach. Journal of Specialized Translation 2008;10:56–75. (www.jostrans.org/issue10/art_maher.pdf) An account of how to go about setting up and using a corpus of model texts to guide editing or translation decision-making. It describes tools and proposes approaches that provide practical solutions for the working translators and editors who work in specialized fields. The article complements a poster that was first presented at the ninth EASE conference in Krakow in 2006. Vasconcelos SMR, Sorenson MM, Leta J, Sant’Ana MC, Batista PD. Researchers’ writing competence: a bottleneck in the publication of Latin American science? EMBO Reports 2008;9(8):700–602. (doi:10.1038/embor.2008.143) Writing for publication in an English language international journal is a linguistic burden for non-English speaking countries. In Brazilian research output, poor English language knowledge and poor writing skills are often a barrier to publishing in high rank journals and to reaching high scientific productivity. © Copyright 2009 by European Association of Science Editors Top of Page |
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