Three Crazy Ideas about Translation Standards

By The ATA Chronicle | November 8, 2016

I’m a big fan of standardization! That’s why I’ve been using international standards in my classroom for almost 10 years. I believe that a…

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Benefits of a Diverse Crew

By The ATA Chronicle | September 9, 2016

From the President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle: @davidcrumsey I managed to squeeze in an afternoon on a friend’s sailboat on a rare, non-working weekend a…

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Making the Most of ATA57

By The ATA Chronicle | September 9, 2016

From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle: @corrinemckay Whether you’re attending ATA’s Annual Conference for the first or the 40th time, you’ll want to…

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Board Meeting Highlights

By The ATA Chronicle | September 9, 2016

From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The American Translators Association’s Board of Directors met July 30–31, 2016, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Here are…

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Inside the ABRATES VII International Conference

By The ATA Chronicle | September 9, 2016

The Associação Brasileira de Tradutores e Intérpretes (ABRATES) held its 7th Annual Conference in June, and the ATA was there looking to forge ties.…

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Curiosity as an Approach to Marketing

By The ATA Chronicle | September 9, 2016

But what about curiosity as an approach to marketing? We’ve probably all heard marketing people say that we should try to write texts that…

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Neural Machine Translation

By The ATA Chronicle | September 9, 2016

Do we need to start shivering in fear when we hear folks talking about neural machine translation? There has been much in the news…

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ATA’s Annual Conference: A Gauge for Professional Growth

By The ATA Chronicle | July 22, 2016

From the President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle: @davidcrumsey Sailing in the open water can be both exhilarating as well as somewhat disorienting. Lots of people…

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New for San Francisco: Advanced Skills and Training (AST) Day

By The ATA Chronicle | July 22, 2016

From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle: @corrinemckay In looking over the attendee evaluations of past ATA Annual Conferences, several trends stand out.…

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Client Outreach Update

By The ATA Chronicle | July 22, 2016

From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org Colorado paralegals, multilingual educators and government employees in Washington, DC, a national gathering of technical writers in…

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Update on ATA Finances

By The ATA Chronicle | July 22, 2016

Treasurer’s Report Ted Wozniak ted@tedwozniak.net There have been some pleasing developments in ATA’s finances since my last report: The final figures are in from the…

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Have You Made It?

By The ATA Chronicle | July 22, 2016

In the absence of a true benchmark against which to gauge your progress, how can you tell if you’ve made it? “Welcome to the…

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