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Notes on the work. Short, sourced, and slow to publish.
Keeping terms consistent
A field's terms are where a translated paper most often goes wrong. How to build a term list, choose the English, and check that one idea stays one term from the abstract to the conclusion.
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Translating a dissertation into English
A dissertation is long, technical, and assessed. Seven steps for translating one into English without losing what it says, from the final draft to the reader in your field.
Translation tools and assessed work
Universities set their own rules on translation tools for assessed work. Five questions to answer before using one on a dissertation or thesis, and how to keep a record of what you did.
Four ways into English
Writing it again, a general translation tool, a paid service, or Tolayda. What each is built for, and where each leaves the author.
Who keeps the paper
Ownership of an uploaded paper stays with the person who wrote it. Deleting an account removes that person's papers, translations, and files, permanently.
The tax on where you were born
Early-career researchers who are not native English speakers spend about 51% more time writing a paper in English.
What stays in place
Tolayda translates block by block. Headings, paragraphs, figure captions, and table cells keep their place in the English.
The locked copy
A lecturer receives a read-only link. While that link is open, the paper stays locked. This note explains why.
The name
Tolayda is said toh-LAY-da. It follows the names of Toledo. The story of seventy-two scholars agreeing word for word is legend, and we say so.
Rejected for the English
Early-career researchers from countries of moderate English proficiency have a paper rejected because of the English about 2.6 times as often as native speakers.