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earlyesther
earlyesther
Local time: 09:51
Indonesia ke Inggris
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medical and legal writing too! Sep 23, 2014

Thank you Karen for sharing your expertise

Would love to attend similar sessions which topic is "Effective Medical/Legal Writing for Translators" who translate into English

There are many trainings here that teaches use how to understand English terminologies on those subjects (on technical too), but not many teach how to present those concept
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Thank you Karen for sharing your expertise

Would love to attend similar sessions which topic is "Effective Medical/Legal Writing for Translators" who translate into English

There are many trainings here that teaches use how to understand English terminologies on those subjects (on technical too), but not many teach how to present those concepts/words/terms "in English". Taking "Legal Writing" classes, for example, which mostly are aimed for lawyers is not an effective solution since translators do not really have to learn how to compose a lawsuit...
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Karen Tkaczyk
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Amerika Serikat (AS)
Local time: 20:51
Prancis ke Inggris
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Medical Writing Oct 3, 2014

Hi Esther,
For medical writing you could look at courses offered by the American Medical Writers Association (http://www.amwa.org/). For legal, I can't help. Perhaps try Bar Associations maybe for US legal writing, or the equivalent in other English-speaking countries?


 


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