Academic Translation

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What is academic translation?

In a general sense academic refers to scientific, educational, and research studies associated with an institution of higher learning. It is a broad concept that comprises the work of undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as academics who conduct research on a professional basis.

Academic research is vital to the creation of sustainable solutions that contribute to the progress of society, humanity, and the world.

With its own specific style, rules, and idiosyncrasies, academic research requires the assessment and evaluation of the existing literature on a topic, and these must be referenced properly. However, academics, especially those who do not live in English speaking countries, often find that the literature is written in a language that is not their own. Of course, it’s not possible for an individual conducting academic research in a particular area to know or learn all these languages. Therefore, academic translations can contribute significantly to the development of an academic field by making a whole body of previous work available to people who never could have accessed it properly before.

How are academic texts translated?

All of these issues make academic translations a specialist area of expertise. Having a good command of a language is not usually sufficient for academic translations as they can cover such a broad range of subjects. To ensure accuracy, it is not just familiarity with academic style that counts, but also a good degree of familiarity with the subject at hand.

When academic translations are undertaken by people who are not experts in the field, the translations are generally of poor quality causing the translated text to be an inaccurate resource for all subsequent works in that field. For this reason, if you are looking to have an academic research study translated, we highly recommend that you work with a reliable translation agency.

Another linguistic service that is vital for this domain is interpreting. Working with experienced and accredited interpreters who can provide consecutive or simultaneous interpreting services at academic events such as conferences, seminars, symposiums, etc., which frequently welcome experts from all over the world, is extremely important both in terms of ensuring that the prestige of the event is upheld and that the subject area continues to advance.

At Transistent, we translate all kinds of academic publications that you might need to use as a work of reference, as well as your own theses, research studies, and scientific articles, all at affordable prices. The following is a list of the kinds of academic texts we translate for our clients:

Quality and Affordable Academic Translation Services

At Transistent, we provide high quality translation services with our zero error policy. In academic translations, we first perform automated checks and correct spelling errors and incorrectly transcribed numbers, if any. We have achieved a 25% to 40% increase in the quality of translations thanks to our QA process whereby an editor reads the text to perform terminological and stylistic checks followed by the addition of final touches by a proofreader.

Did you know that Boğaziçi University, Gaziantep University, Balıkesir University, and Çukurova University, which are among the leading universities in Turkey, have chosen us as their solution partner for academic translations as well as numerous private and public institutions?