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Guidelines for writing Poems, Stories and Tales

What’s the best way to show a foreign language in a manuscript?

Use italics for words not widely known in English. If you’re writing a word in Spanish, Arabic, or Klingon and it’s not commonly used in English, it should be italicized. Using italics gives your readers a heads-up that something different has occurred.

How do you show translation in writing?

You may use quotation marks around translated passages and add a footnote stating that you translated the text into English; in this case, the original text would be provided in quotation marks in the footnote, with the source. You may also indent the translated text so that it has larger margins than the main text.

How do you cite sources in foreign languages?

Formula for citing a foreign language source in APA:



Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year Published). Title in the original language [Translated title]. Place of Publication: Publisher.

How do you quote a foreign language source and its translation?

If you want to present a quotation in both a foreign language and in translation, place the foreign-language quotation in quotation marks if it is less than 40 words long and in a block quotation without quotation marks if it is 40 words or more.

How to write in different languages?

Typing in Foreign Languages: Home

  1. Open the Control Panel and go to the Region and Language section.
  2. Go to the Keyboards and Languages tab and click Change keyboards
  3. To add a new language, click the Add button, and scroll through the languages to find the one you want.

How do you write foreign words in a research paper?

In broad terms, unfamiliar foreign words or phrases should be italicized in English writing. This is common when referring to technical terms used by non-English writers.

How do you prove something is translated?

We found that translations have the following three properties:

  • line segments are taken to line segments of the same length;
  • angles are taken to angles of the same measure; and.
  • lines are taken to lines and parallel lines are taken to parallel lines.


How do you cite a non-English source in APA?

If you use a non-English work, cite the author, date, title and source of the work in the original language. You must include an English translation of the title in square brackets, directly after the title and before the full stop.

Should foreign words be in quotes?

Foreign words and phrases used in an English text should be italicised (no quotation marks or inverted commas) and should have the appropriate accents: EXAMPLE: acquis, carte blanche, raison d’être, gezellig, hygge. AVOID: ‘hygge’ (inverted commas)

Do you reference translated sources?


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How do you indicate translation in text?

In General:



  1. Include the name of the translator, followed by “Trans.”, in parentheses after the book’s title.
  2. For in-text citations, include the publication year of the original work and the publication year of the translation.



How do you showcase a translation skill?

Here are some tips to easily start a portfolio when you don’t have any clients on your resume.

  1. Create mini-portfolios.
  2. Don’t be a “jack of all documents”
  3. Translate for friends or your network.
  4. Translate any available web content or public documents.
  5. Translate book excerpts.
  6. Contact translators in your network.

How do you represent a translation?

The translation is represented by the column vector . In general, a translation can be represented by a column matrix or column vector where a is the number of units to move right or left along the x-axis and b is the number of units to move up or down along the y-axis.