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TRANSLATION STUDIES PG 2013

FINAL ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINE

Option 1: Course Proe!t"rite # $et#i%e$ rese#r!& propos#% 'or # proe!t o' (our o)n !&oi!e in

Tr#ns%#tion Stu$ies

Select an area/issue in translation studies

Choose a research topic

Form (a) research question(s)

Set up theoretical background for the topic (a portfolio)

Write an annotated bibliography/literature review

escribe the proposed method and procedure! including the research

hypotheses! thesub"ects used in the study! data collection methods and data analysis procedures

Work out a timeline for the research pro"ect

Option 2: Ess#( "ritin*

Choose ONEof the questions in the attached list (#uestions for Final$ssay) and write an essay of approximately 3500 words to answerthe question. You may use an appendix to include more examplesand it is not counted as the main text.

Your complete essay will include: a cover pae with your full name(in !ietnamese)" your roup" your lecturer#s name" the question"date of su$mission and a space for comments and mar%in. Youressay should $e typed.

D#te o' Su+,ission:

Submit your final assignment to the Faculty Office on or before

Friday 6 December, 2013. Please note that late submission ill result in

unfa!ourable mar"ing.

(&ee the 'ttachment $elow)

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TRANSLATION STUDIESQuestions for Final Essay

. resent a model of the translation process withexamples from real oriinal texts and theirtranslation from the wor%s $y professional translatorsor from your own translations

*. Choose an oriinal text and its translation $y a

professional translator. Comment on thetranslation(s) in terms of text style (the translationequivalence in terms of text cateories and types)

3. &tate the main translation methods and+ortranslation procedures+techniques and iveexamples from the oriinal text and its translation(s)$y professional translators or examples from yourown translations

,. Choose an oriinal text and its translation $y aprofessional translator. Comment on the methods +techniques applied $y the translator(s) or thepossi$le types of equivalence in the translation

5. Choose an oriinal text and translate it into otherlanuae. &tate and provide a rationale for themethods or techniques applied or the main types ofequivalence you have produced (intentionally) inyour translation.

-. hat is translation equivalence/ resent types ofequivalence in translation as differentiated $y sometranslation theorists and ive examples in realoriinal texts and their translations from the wor%s$y professional translators or from your owntranslations where necessary.

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. 1a%e a comparative readin of an oriinal text andits translation $y a professional translator. oint outthe type(s) of translation equivalences made $y thetranslator and comment on them.

2. Collect and cateorie technical terms in 4nlish and!ietnamese in an area accordin to 3 levels oftechnical style expressed in terminoloy" ive yourown comments on them where necessary.

%& Choose a translation of an oriinal text and ive yourassessment remarks basing on a model of translation assessment&

0. &tate the uses of translation in 46 withexamples from your own teachin experience and+orother teachers that you %now.