Valerie Matarese
Contact details
Via Roma 10
Vidor
Treviso
31020
Italy
Vidor
Treviso
31020
Italy
Professional profile
Activities
Editing
Research
Training-Educating
Writing
Information analysis
Research
Training-Educating
Writing
Information analysis
Qualifications and experience
Valerie Matarese is an independent language professional who provides author editing in the biomolecular sciences, training in research writing, and writing services, particularly for Italian researchers, publishers and medical societies. Since 2007 she has served as editor, contributor and information researcher for www.mdct.net, a website on computed tomography. She also works as an information professional, conducting online research in Italian, with analysis and reporting in English, for businesses interested in the Italian healthcare industry. Prior to launching her current business in 1997, she worked in basic research at the University of California at San Francisco, the Whitehead Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and GlaxoWellcome Medicines Research Centre in Verona, Italy. She holds a BS from Cornell University (New York) and a PhD from the University of Minnesota, both in the biomolecular sciences.
Publications
Matarese V, editor (2013) Supporting Research Writing: Roles and challenges in multilingual settings. Oxford: Chandos
Burrough-Boenisch J, Matarese V (2013) "The authors' editor: working with authors to make drafts fit for purpose." In: Matarese V, editor. Supporting Research Writing: Roles and challenges in multilingual settings. Oxford: Chandos, pp 173–189
Matarese V (2013) "Reporting—the final phase of scientific research—can and should be supported. A case for integrating language professionals into the research setting." RT. A Journal on Research Policy & Evaluation
Matarese V (2013) "Good language is vital to research communication". Research Information
Matarese V (2013) "Aldo Manuzio and his legacy to the language profession." European Science Editing 39(2):34-36
Matarese V (2011) "Multiple rejections: role of the writing process." The Lancet
Burrough-Boenisch J, Matarese V (2013) "The authors' editor: working with authors to make drafts fit for purpose." In: Matarese V, editor. Supporting Research Writing: Roles and challenges in multilingual settings. Oxford: Chandos, pp 173–189
Matarese V (2013) "Reporting—the final phase of scientific research—can and should be supported. A case for integrating language professionals into the research setting." RT. A Journal on Research Policy & Evaluation
Matarese V (2013) "Good language is vital to research communication". Research Information
Matarese V (2013) "Aldo Manuzio and his legacy to the language profession." European Science Editing 39(2):34-36
Matarese V (2011) "Multiple rejections: role of the writing process." The Lancet
Continuing professional development
METMs
METM05, METM06, METM07, METM08, METM09, METM10, METM11, METM12, METM13, METM14, METM16, METM17, METM18, METM19
Workshops
- Anatomy, part 1: basic concepts through study of the thorax
- Anatomy, part 2: understanding the skin
- Corpus-guided editing and translation – Part 1 Mining target-language corpora to guide English editing and translation: an introduction to a problem-solving approach
- Story factor: leveraging advanced storytelling techniques to engage and inspire
- Practical tools for improving text flow: focus on information ordering
- Managing plagiarism: an approach to dialog between authors and editors
- Communicating with your clients: a systematic approach for translators and editors
- Statistics for editors and translators
- Abstracts and the writing of abstracts
- Practical stats, part 2
- Study designs in medical research: reporting structures and roles in knowledge-building
- The comma, false friends and transcreation (MET medley, Milan 2018)
- Wine words – translating in the wine world
- Tips and tools from the Hive, cutting out source-language interference, is full post-editing a pipe dream? (MET medley, Nantes 2019)
- Phrasal verbs: “Bring ’em on!” / Modal verbs: “Might you be in the mood?”
- Running pre-conference workshops on writing effective scientific articles: course design, presentation and marketing issues
- Tagging along: dangling participles, adverbial disjuncts and other hangers-on
- On voice: activating the passivists, passifying the activists
- Approaches to effective paragraphing: the topic sentence revisited
- Understanding our clients: anthropologists