Coping strategy #57...
Apr. 4th, 2008 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWhen clients ask you to do incremental deliveries, don't feel bound to stick to poor choices made (and submitted) earlier. If you find a better rendering (or, heaven forfend, an error), make the necessary change and use it from that point on in the assignment.
Of course, adherents of the "final quality first draft" school will smugly insist that is is precisely the avoidance of such a circumstance that supports their approach to work, which consists of worrying every aspect of a sentence to death prior to translating it, presumably in some immutable form that glows in the dark and aids in suppressing the worldwide threat of avian flu (and which, I have found, requires as much editing and ultimately, modification, to make right as anybody else's translation).
As a follow-up, you must inform your project manager of any such change, and it is this requirement that imparts a strong aroma to the idea of incremental submittals: If you make too many such changes, the editor begins to entertain fantasies involving your gory demise, and the project manager may get the wrong idea about your work habits.
Cheers...
Of course, adherents of the "final quality first draft" school will smugly insist that is is precisely the avoidance of such a circumstance that supports their approach to work, which consists of worrying every aspect of a sentence to death prior to translating it, presumably in some immutable form that glows in the dark and aids in suppressing the worldwide threat of avian flu (and which, I have found, requires as much editing and ultimately, modification, to make right as anybody else's translation).
As a follow-up, you must inform your project manager of any such change, and it is this requirement that imparts a strong aroma to the idea of incremental submittals: If you make too many such changes, the editor begins to entertain fantasies involving your gory demise, and the project manager may get the wrong idea about your work habits.
Cheers...
