A Translation Project Report Of Quality In Professional Translation:Assessment And Improvement(Chapter Two)

This is a project report on the translation of Quality in Professional Translation:Assessment and Improvement(Chapter 2) written by Joanna Drugan from University of East Anglia(UEA), UK. The source text(ST) discusses in detail why there is no objective translation assessment model from the aspects of theory and practice. By translating the ST, the writer of this translation report has gained a clearer picture about the gap and disparity between the translation theory and practice so as to become better prepared for the industry. This translation project can also awaken academics’ awareness about the problems in translation studies and enlighten them to become more focused on industry needs. In addition, it will offer some inspiration for professional translators, translation clients, MTI students and those who intend to be professional translators.The writer of this translation project chooses Reiss’ s text typology as the guiding theory, analyzes the communicative functions and main features of academic texts, summarizes three major translation difficulties: translation of terminology,translation of long difficult sentences, and reproduction of academic tone in the TT,and under the guidance of informative text type theory adopts literal translation,conversion, sequential translation, reverse translation, amplification, and division so as to make the TT clear and plain, and deliver the original information to the target reader as explicitly as an informative text requires.