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Language, Translation & Information Technologies
Research Methodology & Reference Sources
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Image(s) of the Month: A park by l'avenue des Champs Elysées in Paris
Notices Important notice: New hosts were found for this site (see below). From September, 2004 on, content hosted by old servers (www.freewebs.com and www.bravehost.com) will no longer be updated. Please bookmark the new addresses at the bottom of this page for later access to this site.
Students who take the course “Introduction to Translation Studies” may click on these links to access directly the Syllabus, the Recommended Reading and the Questions for Study and Discussion pages I prepared for the course. Students who take the course “Language, Translation, and Information Technologies” may click HERE to access the resources page for the course.
MA
and PhD candidates may click
HERE
to read the English Department’s
Instructions
for the Preparation of M.A. Thesis and Ph.D. Dissertation.
The “Research Methodology and Reference Sources” suite on this site has been restructured to help graduate students to locate more conveniently resources giving instructions on how to do scientific research and to write up their thesis. The newly added pages and links include a template for MA thesis proposal (to be filled in by 2nd-year graduate students on the degree track of Translation Studies), “Typical Thesis Structure” (which I prepared for the 2nd-year and 3rd-year graduate students), “Typical Weaknesses in Theses” (which I prepared for the 3rd-year graduate students on the basis of Williams and Chesterman [2002] and the problems found in the theses written by former SFS graduate students), a sample MA thesis (Yan Weiwei's An Evaluation of the Output Quality of Some Prevalent EC MT Programs; courtesy of the author), a sample abstract (from a book by Professor Don Snow which will be published by Hong Kong University Press; courtesy of the author), “APA Style Made Easy” (a very detailed and handy one-page guide to documenting sources in APA style), “Review Questions for Williams and Chesterman’s The Map” (which grew out of my interaction with the second-year graduate students in the Research Design and Progress seminar), “Introduction to Data Collection and Analysis” (a good primer on scientific method) as well as “Electronic Statistics Textbook” (a detailed electronic book on statistics).
Recent Updates September, 2004 - Photos taken in my recent trip to Singapore added in the “Visual Arts” suite. August, 2004 - Photos taken in my recent trip to France added in the “Visual Arts” suite. July, 2004 - Dynamic IE Title Bar Date-Time Clock Display and Drop Down World Clock added. July, 2004 - Site search engine added. July, 2004 - Message Forum (message board) opened (at the bottom of this page). Please feel free to make comments or suggestions about this site in the Forum. You may also paste there any question you may have for other visitors to this site. The maximum length of each message is 5000 characters (not words). HTML content is allowed. June, 2004 - The “Nature and Environment” suite added. Images of natural wonders, scenic beauty and human interest began to be pasted at the top of the home page as “Image(s) of the Month”. Link to a very good clustering search engine “Vivisimo” added. (Google might be superseded if it fails to make efforts to catch up J.) Links to some transportation and weather information query sites added on the Friendly Links page. A new essay (“Being and Choice: a Look at Existentialism from the Perspective of Existentialist Literature” [Simplified Chinese]) added in the “Literature” suite. A newly published paper (“‘SARS’ vs. ‘Atypical Pneumonia’: A Terminological Case Study” [Simplified Chinese; with Wu Zhijie] added. Two new lecture outlines (“The Problem of Logic” and “The Use of Reference Sources in Translation”) added in the “Research Methodology and Reference Sources” suite. The “Reference Sources” suite was expanded to include pages and links related to research methods. The suite was renamed accordingly “Research Methodology and Reference Sources”. A diary kept by Yang Zi while traveling in the U.K. added (kindly provided by the author). Links to Word Spy (English new words), Wikipedia (free multilingual encyclopedia), OneLook (dictionary lookup portal), and Google search engines, and Systran Online Translation engine added. More pictures (some taken in my recent visit to Singapore and Hong Kong) added in the “Visual Arts” suite. Some new papers and links added in the “Language and Linguistics” and “Translation Studies” pages. A new page created to facilitate the instruction of the new graduate course “Language, Translation, and Information Technologies”. Overall layout redesigned.
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