2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin

SPA 437 Text Analysis and Editing for Translators

 3 hours 

This course is designed to further develop skills for understanding and analyzing written and spoken texts, and for improving their written output. Students will learn to recognize different text types, their linguistic function, structure and formal traits. Issues related to potential bias in comprehending and interpreting texts will be explored. Students will become familiar with copyediting and proofreading techniques and will apply them to their own translation output.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 201 and SPA 330