Timetable of pre-conference workshops


  ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3 ROOM 4 Grammar pathway minisessions ROOM 5 ROOM 6
Thursday
17:00 – 20:00
Practical stats, part 1: understanding and reporting descriptive and bivariate analyses — Darko Hren, Split Corpus-guided decision-making for editors and translators — Mary Ellen Kerans, Barcelona Solving terminology problems more quickly with IntelliWebSearch — Michael Farrell, Mortara, Pavia      
Thursday 
17:15 – 18:15
      Subject–verb agreement: overcoming the stumbling blocks — Tom O’Boyle, Valdemoro, Madrid    
Thursday 18:30 – 19:30       Singular they: honourable usage or a sign of grammatical incompetence? — John Bates, Tarragona    
Friday
 9:30 – 12:30
Practical stats, part 2: understanding and reporting regression analyses and multivariate ANOVA models — Darko Hren, Split A keyword corpus to go: exploring the potential of WebBootCat — Anne Murray, Barberà de la Conca, Tarragona

 
Readability: 10 strategies for improving flow in translated or non-English speakers’ texts  — John Bates, Tarragona   Using wildcards in Microsoft Word find-and-replace routines: in search of speed and consistency — Kathleen Lyle, Oxford Anatomy, part 3: the nervous system, an overview for English language specialists — Philip Bazire, El Molar, Madrid
Friday
 9:45 – 10:45
      Tagging along: dangling participles, adverbial disjuncts and other hangers-on  — Irwin Temkin, Barcelona    
Friday 
11:00 – 12:00
      Activating the passivists, passifying the activists — Irwin Temkin, Barcelona