Sumários

Academic paper

7 Março 2023, 15:30 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

Students translated an excerpt from an academic paper on Supervised Classification Results (Statistics)

Academic paper

2 Março 2023, 15:30 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

In-class translation of an academic paper related to spatial planning (available on Moodle).

Main focus- eliminating superfluous language; use of the past perfect in English when the simple past is used in Portuguese

Academic paper

28 Fevereiro 2023, 15:30 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

Students completed the translation of the abstract (from the previous class) and translated part of the introduction of this academic paper (available on Moodle)

Introduction to the translation of academic papers

23 Fevereiro 2023, 15:30 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

Students were given an abstract to translate into English.

The features highlighted in this class were:

Use of the passive voice in English; removing personal pronouns; using specific over general verbs; replacing phrasal verbs

Group Assignment 1

16 Fevereiro 2023, 15:30 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

Students translated a journalistic text in groups and submitted it at the end of the lesson.

This is an assessed piece of work and worth 10% of students' final mark.