Authoring Control

At the heart of every translation project is – the original document. Control the authoring of that document – and you’ve taken a significant step toward enhancing its translatability.

OmniLingua language management professionals understand the many areas and nuances – and implications – of “authoring control.” We help our clients improve their authoring by providing reports back to the authoring team which help to guide them to be more consistent, showing specific examples of inconsistently written segments, as well as reports showing their greatest areas of consistency, and other factors. In this way, OmniLingua language management professionals and our quality processes help reduce variability in authoring.

Planning – and understanding clearly what you want to say and to whom you want to say it – is the first step in creating a quality English document. Purifying your original language materials by writing clearly and concisely, and using familiar grammar and vocabulary will also prove beneficial when moving into the translation phase of a project. Tools such as client and agency style sheets, glossaries and templates help achieve consistency in authoring original documents.

Aggressive authoring control is worth the effort because it reduces variation, and thus:

• Reduces translation time
• Lowers translation costs
• Lowers production costs
• Results in more accurate translations (and thus, better understanding)

Authoring control is an important part of the OmniLingua continual quality improvement process. Our OTIS·quality capability allows us to advise our clients on where and how to make improvements.

Contact your OmniLingua language management professional today to learn more about how we can help you enhance your authoring control efforts.