TECHNICAL WRITING AND TRANSLATION - CHANGING WITH THE TIMES

As trade becomes global and technology allows more of the production o f documentation to be done in-house, the difference between the roles of technical writers and translators is narrowing. The assumptions und erlying the training of technical translators and notions of quality i n technical language do not yet reflect this change. Quality implies s tandards, and that has recently come to mean international standards. The concluding part of this article will look at some of the implicati ons of the standardization of text conventions for communicating proce dures across languages and cultures.