• Corpus-guided editing and translation – Ailish Maher, Mary Ellen Kerans, Stephen Waller

• Abstracts and the writing of abstracts – John Swales
• Practical tools for improving text flow: focus on information ordering – Mary Ellen Kerans
• FULL Readability: 10 strategies for improving flow in translated or non-English speakers’ texts – John Bates
• Anatomy of the thorax: systemic and topographic approaches combined with the latest medical imaging approaches – Ivica Grković

Study designs in medical research: concepts and terminology – Saša Mišak, Croatia

Editing the spoken academic text – Sally Burgess, Ana Díaz Galán and María del Carmen Fumero Pérez, Spain

Dragon Naturally Speaking: using dictation software to increase productivity – Ann King and William Orr, Spain

Note that Thursday lunch is not included in the fee. Participants who are taking morning and afternoon workshops will find convenient light lunch options nearby.

• A genre analysis approach to translating and editing research articles – Alan Lounds
• Managing plagiarism: an approach to dialog between authors and editors – Mary Ellen Kerans
• Practical tools for improving text flow: focus on punctuation – Tom O’Boyle
• Statistics for editors and translators – Darko Hren
• Using storytelling techniques to create high-impact PowerPoint presentations – Sara Freitas-Maltaverne

Variation in Methods Sections of Research Articles – John M. Swales

The contemporary research article (RA) was correctly glossed by Montgomery (1996) as ‘that master narrative of our time’. Although recent research into RA products and the processes of their construction has tended to focus on the more ‘rhetorical’ introduction and discussion sections, I here argue that it is in the methods sections that we find the greatest and most interesting disciplinary variation [read more.]

John M. Swales, professor emeritus, University of Michigan, author of numerous articles and books on how to identify the salient features of written academic and professional discourses.

Professor Swales will be introduced by Sally Burgess – Spain

Traditional Croatian songs and instrumental music from the group Via Dalmatia from Split

The scenario of bilingual publications in Brazil – Claudia Buchweitz and Denise Arend, Brazil

How are successful English medium academic texts produced? Exploring the perspectives of multilingual scholars – Theresa Lillis, UK

A corpus-based study of find as a translation replacement of encontrar and hallar in medical research articles – Ian A. Williams, Spain

The translator as a back-translator and self-editor in public relations translation processes – Taner Karakoç, Turkey

‘Native here and to the manner born’? – David Owen, Spain

The ‘Nancy style’ – a toolkit for managing limited-circulation literature and learning about the entire editorial process – Paola de Castro and Sandra Salinetti, Italy

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Clinical documentation—from preclinical studies to drug registration – Greg Morley, Spain

Getting Organized! Tools and approaches that can help freelancers ‘create time’ – Anne Murray, Spain

Peer review at Hormozgan Medical Journal: Searching for a solution after disappointing results – Shahram Zare and Nepton Soltani, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Publish or perish: the role of in-house language services in scientific publishing – Hazel Rochford and Janet Carter-Sigglow, Jülich, Germany

Setting up a university’s journal to be part of an international scene: an educational role for a new Iranian medical journal (1999 – the present) – Nepton Soltani and Shahram Zare, Iran

Plus selected posters from METM 07

The elephant in the room: why are academics often poor writers? – Mike Gould, the Netherlands

Introduction to the structure and terminology of the European Higher Education Area – Timothy Barton, Spain

Where do the ‘disciplinary culture’ differences in communication lie? – organizer, Ana Marušic, Croatian Medical Journal, University of Zagreb, Croatia

• Playing the field: some things to watch out for when changing discipline – Alan Lounds, Spain
• Symposia participants and invited lecturers’ styles across disciplinary cultures: interpersonal features – Sally Burgess, Spain
• Where does disciplinary culture lie? An ethnographic perspective – Theresa Lillis, UK
• Discipline-specific reviewing practices (title to be confirmed) – Ida Raffaelli, Croatia
• Communication in natural sciences: experience from a marine biology journal – Anita Marušić, Croatia

Research that’s relevant to wordface practitioners – organizer, Ian Williams, University of Cantabria, Spain

• Hot topics in current research – John Swales, University of Michigan
• Implications of -˜social practice' writing research for supporting writing for publication – Theresa Lillis, UK
• Guidelines for manuscript preparation – help or hindrance? – Karen Shashok, Spain
• What researchers can learn from biomedical editors’ efforts to make research more usable for practitioners – Mary Ellen Kerans, Spain
• Corpus-based research and contrastive analysis: How relevant is it to practitioners? – Ian A. Williams, Spain

Publication ethics: thinking globally, acting locally – Liz Wager

Electronic publishing has effectively globalized many publications. Readers, reviewers and editorial board members can be drawn from anywhere with decent internet connectivity. While many fundamental ethical principles appear universal, editors and translators face differences in norms and accepted behaviours between regions, disciplines and cultures [read more]

Liz Wager is a freelance publications consultant, secretary of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and member of the BMJ ethics committee.

Ms Wager will be introduced by Ana Marušic – Croatia

Best practice in English academic publication on the ‘periphery’ – organizer, Matko Marušić, Croatian Medical Journal, University of Zagreb, Croatia

• Does it really have to be in English? – Ida Raffaelli, Croatia
• Two languages, one journal managed within the Open Journal System (OJS): initiating and maintaining a bilingual editorial and publication process – Teo Matković and Siniša Zrinšcak, Zagreb, Croatia
• Cross-Cultural Communication about Peer Reviewed Research – Tharwat M. El-Sakran, Ajman University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates
• Biomedical research journals from non-Anglophone industrialized countries: quality, editorial leadership, international role and future scenarios – Valerie Matarese, Italy
• Working with authors: experience of the Croatian Medical Journal – Ana Ivaniš, Croatia

Improving what gets published: who’s improving texts as written communications? – Karen Shashok, Spain

Designing services for graduate students: a prescription requiring cooperation within university units and faculties, staff able to transfer skills, luck, and endless patience – Nancy Karabeyoglu, Turkey

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Making sense of the European Union: references and resources – Marie Bourke, Belgium

Promising practices in multilingual publication – organizer, Mary Ellen Kerans, freelance editor and translator, Spain

• Motivation, logistics, timing and budgeting of trilingual online scientific journal publication – Joan Cuxart, Catalonia, Spain
• Timing and feedback loops in bilingual publication – Mary Ellen Kerans, Spain
• Process-flow design in multilingual publishing does matter – George Witherington, UK
• Involving authors in the translation review process: practices and results – Claudia Buchweitz, Brazil

Translation revision and quality assurance: practices and protocols in diverse settings – organizer, Greg Morley, freelance editor, writer and translator, Spain

• Piloting a translation revision protocol in a freelance setting – Ailish Maher, Mary Savage, Irwin Temkin, Spain
• Translation revision in a university setting – Luci Vázquez, Spain
• Revision and freelance translators: Different agency practices – Sarah Griffin-Mason, UK
• Bilingual journals: A special case – Greg Morley, Spain