The process of reading a translation in order to spot problematic passages, and then making or recommending any corrections or improvements that are needed to meet some standard of quality.

• repurposing

• rewriting

• revising

• unilingual re-reading

An integral part of the translation production process in which one

checks and amends one’s own translation

• Spot-checking

• Self-revision

• revising

• unilingual re-reading

Revising a translation by checking either regularly spaced or randomly selected paragraphs or pages spread over a text

• Spot-checking

• Self-revision

• revising

• unilingual re-reading

Type of revision in which the translation alone is read

unless a passage is nonsensical or there is some other reason for the reviser

to look at the source text. Also called ‘monolingual re-reading’ or just plain

‘re-reading’. To be distinguished from the editing, outside a translation service,

of texts which happen to be translations

• Spot-checking

• Self-revision

• scanning

• unilingual re-reading

Checking a text for errors in matters concerning individual words, phrases or sentences, or the relationship between a sentence

and the one that precedes or follows it.

• Spot-checking

• macro-level checking

• micro-level checking

• unilingual re-reading