Thursday 27 February 2014

Geological dictionaries

Polish geological dictionary - includes definitions of terms, cross-references and sources:
http://www.slownik-geologiczny.pl/agradacja

English-Polish geological dictionary available at diki:
https://www.diki.pl/slownik-angielskiego/slownik-geologiczny/

Electronic dictionary available at the webiste of the Polish Institute of Oil and Gas (EN, PL, RUS)
https://portalwiedzy.inig.pl/tabele/112/tabela.html

English-Polish drilling dictionary - very old! available at the webiste of the Polish Institute of Oil and Gas
http://bc.inig.pl:8080/dlibra/docmetadata?id=902&from=pubstats

JEK's English-Polish geological dictionary
http://www.angelfire.com/planet/lorem-ipsum/c.html

Parallel corpora available in a few language combinations including Polish - very useful for translation!
http://www.linguee.com/english-polish

Dictionary at Translatica website
http://www.translatica.pl/slowniki/

Tuesday 25 February 2014

Terminology Policies

At the request of UNESCO, Infoterm has compiled the Guidelines for Terminology Policies in cooperation with experts from its network.
The policies are availble in a number of languages under the link
http://www.infoterm.info/activities/links_and_resources_on_terminology_policies.php

Thursday 20 February 2014

Cite them right: the essential guide to referencing and plagiarism

This is a wonderful position - everything you should know about referencing. It shows how to do in-text citations and how to create bibliography. It includes lots of useful tips and discusses an abundance of resources, also untypical ones such as blogs, computer programs, unpublishes theses, etc.
Highly recommended! Available under the link:
Cite tem right

Sunday 16 February 2014

Translator handbook

An updated version of a translator handbook is available at the European Commission website. http://ec.europa.eu/translation/polish/guidelines/documents/styleguide_polish_dgt_pl.pdf

Check it out for translation rules and methods if you have doubts in the translation process.

Checking your references

In order to check whether you get your references right you may try Swansea University website. The library has got a tool called 'cite this right' which gives reerences for the selected item in MLA and APA formats.
Simply eneter the details of the searched item in the ifind discover window at https://ifind.swan.ac.uk/discover/
then select the position you are looking for and click 'cite this right' in the options window at the right hand side.

Anti-plagiarism software

Antyplagiat.pl available at https://www.plagiat.pl/webplagiat/main.action
is the software our University uses to check whether your thesis is a plagiarism. You may try it out yourself before you submit your thesis. The procedure is straightforward. You have to create an account on the website and then upload the file you want to check against plagiarism. Unfortunately, you need to pay for this checking.

Citavi4

A free software for creating references in the text and bibliography at the end of your thesis.
We will be trying it out in the class.
https://www.citavi.com/en/index.html

LSP training

The Pyramid Group from Germany offers very solid workshops on the methodology of LSP teaching. They run annually at the beginning of September.
http://www.technicalenglish.biz/