April 2003 Chronicle
Focus: Client Education

Message from the President
Message from the President-elect
Message from the Executive Director

Regional Network for North America
By Esteban Cadena
The Regional Network for North America is working to establish a common forum for translators in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico to provide information, share resources and expertise, and discuss tri-national projects, including certification and reciprocal recognition, training exchanges, and quality assurance.

Creating a Superior Performance Method
Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D.
Have you ever thought that the most effective methodology for motivation could come from your team members themselves?

Managing Translation From the Client's Side
By Catherine Deschamps-Potter and Scott Bahr
A simple framework for assessing and refining the translation project process.

Peering Into a Mirror: Translator Perception of the Public's Awareness of Translators
By Dena Bugel-Shunra
Speaking with translators in many different countries shows us the extent to which cultural bias (monolingual, multilingual) affects our, as well as the public's, perception of ourselves as professionals.

Is Technical Translation Really a Collaborative Activity?
By Steve Vitek
Not all technical translation is suitable for the collaborative, multi-layered approach to proofreading by "bilingual category experts" that is supposedly practiced by some translation agencies.

Behind the Mirror: Now We See Her, Now We Don't
By Anne Milano Appel
Reflections on the ironies and ambivalences of being a female translator in today's world, and some of the paradoxes inherent in translation.

Intimate Portrait of a Language
By Paulo Rónai, translated by Tom Moore
I have never met a foreigner who has managed to learn Hungarian well.

An Interview with Dava Sobel
By Lily Liu
A talk with the award-winning author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love.