Practical Translation Project Design

　Practical Translation Project Design - Translation > Stage 7 > Step 2

Examine Relevant Portions

Sometimes, the relevant portions of the data may not directly reveal all the aspects that you want to see. For example, the number of the clauses will not be apparent until you make a manual count; before that you will even have to define the criteria for placing a separator / somewhere to mark the clause boundary. At other times, the ground for judging one element relevant was not stated explicitly, thus making the inclusion of that element unconvincing. For example, when Trainee H marked the subject for every sentence, s/he had to conduct a semantic analysis of every sentence and determine its syntactic structure to explain why an element was labeled as the subject of the sentence.

There are a number of methods that you may follow in examining the relevant portions. Let's focus on fundamental ones that your fellow trainees have to use in their studies and that you are likely to use in your own study as well.

Task 1	Make a Manual/Automatic Count
Task 2	Establish Criteria
Task 3	Provide Definitions
Task 4	Compare and Contrast
Task 5	Categorize What Has Been Observed