Source Text Borrowing in Summary of Integrated Writing

Integrated writing tasks,requiring writers to summarize source content and integrate their ideas or experience with those in the source text,are widely used in standardized tests of English proficiency.Integrated writing adds an element not found in traditional independent writing:the use of source text material.Recently,concern has been raised that over-reliance on source texts in integrated writing may lead to plagiarism as well as inaccurate assessment which calls for further investigation.Research on L2 students’writing using sources has broadened its focus from transgressive citing practices to stages of skill development in this complicated literacy,the successive challenges students face,and how instruction might be of benefit.Previous literature mainly focused on source use in academic writing and seldom considered summary writing in standardized tests,while summary strategy is particularly important in standardized tests,in which summary accounts for a significant part of the assessment criteria.Given that a series of previous literature have indicated that source text use,source texts,and prompts are associated with the quality of summary writing,this article reviews the source text borrowing in the summary of integrated writing to further explore the relationship between some variables and the quality of summary writing and therefore finds some research gaps in this field.

On Impacts of Cultural Soft Power on Translation -by Analyzing Popularity of Yu Hua’s Works in US

With the emergence of the Cultural School in the 1990s, researchers began to deem that translation is inevitably associated with political tendencies and aspirations of social groups, and the relationship between source language and target language has never gone beyond politics and are always entangled with power. From political perspective, this thesis will take the popularity of Yu Hua’s works in US into account to analyze and explore how cultural soft power, has impacts on translation activities, especially translation direction and source text selection.

University Profile Translation Based on Skopos Theory

University profile translation belongs to publicity translation and is different from other translations in style.Its main functions are informative and vocative.Skopos theory is one of most important theories in German functionalist approaches.According to the theory,translation is an action with a certain Skopos.The purpose decides the translating process.Therefore,this paper is aimed to explore the translation of Chinese university profiles from the Skopos theory from the angle of translational skopos and source text analyzing.By exemplification and comparison between the source texts and translated texts,it is concluded in the paper that adaption is available in translation strategy-selecting in order to achieve its informative and vocative function.

A Research Report on the Short Story Translation of Dimensions

This paper is a reflective research report based on my translation of the short story Dimension. The author Alice Monroe's works have their distinctive features. Relative to other genres, literary works appear to be more to life and easy to understand. But there still have rare words, long sentences and complex syntax. To convey its original conception and preserve the intrinsic style, I did the translation under the standards of theories learn from the course named basic translation. In addition, a variety of translation techniques widly employed, to solve problems in the long sentences and complex sentences translation.

The Inheritance and Innovation of Translation Theory——The Perspective on Original Works

For more than a thousand years since the formation of translation as a discipline,many translation theories and different translation schools have emerged.The exploration of translation theories has lasted for hundreds and thousands of years.Each translation school has proposed different translation theories.Throughout the development of translation theory,discussions have always centered on the relationship between the source text and the target text,encompassing translation strategies such as foreignization and domestication,as well as methods like literal translation and free translation.This relationship has been the main thread running through the history of translation theory development.In the 1970s,Reiss,a representative of the German functionalist school,put forward the text type theory.She linked the function of language with language type and text to study translation.She explored the different functions of various types of source texts from the perspective of text type.Therefore,in this paper,the functions and positions of the source text in translation are the central issues.This paper consists of two parts.In the first part,the history of Western translation development is divided into three periods:classical,modern,and contemporary.It uses time as a clue to analyze the changes in the position and function of the source text in translation.In the second part,it uses Reiss’s text type theory as a basis to analyze the extent to which the source text restricts the translator.