Turvasana™ — Editing and proofreading

Editing, which includes checking, revision and review, refers to quality assurance work performed before delivering a final translation to the client. Proofreading, on the other hand, aims to detect changes that have been made after the translation was delivered.

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Editing

Professional writers and translators check their work carefully before delivering it, but further revision and review may nevertheless be useful. This applies to translations as well as to original texts; if a source text suffers from quality issues, it should be reviewed before it is translated.

Typical candidates for editing include publications (particularly those intended for printing), contractual instruments and other important texts as well as translations performed by your own non-translator staff. However, editing is not a panacea. If a translation is of poor quality, translating the source text anew instead of editing the existing translation will likely cost less and yield a better result.

Terminology

Checking

A translator checks his or her own translation.

Revision

A translator revises a translation created by another translator, comparing it against the source text. Also known as bilingual revision.

Review

An editor reviews a text on its own, without comparing it to any antecedent text. Also known as monolingual review.

Proofreading

Proofreading means comparing two versions of the same text. Unlike the checking, revision and review mentioned above, proofreading does not involve discretionary evaluation of terminology or style.

Typically, a translation is proofread after the client has prepared it for publishing. The client provides a proof sheet (often in the form of a PDF file), which a proofreader then compares against the initial translation. The proofreader notes any errors (such as incorrect hyphenation, capitalisation and abbreviations), and the client corrects them. The proofreading is repeated until no errors are found (in other words, until the text of the proof sheet is identical to the translation). Two rounds usually suffice.

Charges

Editing and proofreading is charged for by the hour.

Reservation for changes

The above information is indicative and subject to change. Please use the Turvasana™ website rather than third party pages displaying copies of this information.

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