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If you're looking for preprinted material for client education, please feel free to download and use the Adobe Acrobat portable document (marked by PDF) for that use. If you don't already have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, you will need to download it from the Adobe Acrobat Web site.

If you wish to use or modify parts of the text, for example, to incorporate them into a letter to the editor, you may find the Microsoft Word document versions (marked by MS Word document) of these papers useful.

Use Agreement: These position papers are intended to encourage client education and foster positive public perception of translation and interpretation. By downloading the Acrobat version of these files, you agree to not modify content or claim it as your own. You also agree to not use the NOTIS logo or name to promote views other than those published here without the express written permission of the NOTIS Board of Directors. Please include credit when quoting extensively from this or any source.

If you wish to re-publish information, please include credit and inform us at info@notisnet.org.


Client Education: Ensuring a Positive Experience 
Also included on our Web site, this text was written by Michelle Privat Obermeyer, and includes some material from classic commentary by Bill Parks, Coordinator of the Certificate in Translating at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. Used with permission of the Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters.

Thinking of Taking up Translation? or A Good Translator is Made not Born
Courtney Searls-Ridge, Academic Director of Translation at the Translation and Interpretation Institute, outlines just what it takes to be a successful translator.  

"For Services Rendered"
A reminder of common payment practices and contractual obligations, intended to serve as a gentle reminder. By Caitilin Walsh.

What is a Certified Translation? 
The INS says they need one, but the only translators you can find are "accredited," whatever that means. By Courtney Searls-Ridge. 


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