Adjunct Professor, Monterey Institute of International Studies
1992 to 1995

Taught graduate students to turn foreign source material into English documentation that would optimally serve its new purpose and audience. Focused on information processing, research strategies, and compliance with grammar, terminology, and style guides appropriate to the user.

Results Orientation

• Urged students to think of purpose and audience first.
• Adapted real-life materials for homework and tests.
• Taught students to research terminology and style using parallel literature, computer databases, and the Internet.
• Lectured on the nuts and bolts of the translation and localization industry.

ISO 9000 and Translation

See my article on translation quality assessment in Marshall Morris, ed., Translation and the Law. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1995.