 Member since Oct '03
Working languages: Spanish to English
Portuguese to English |
|  Muriel Vasconcellos
Over 35 years of specialized experience
San Diego, CA, United States Local time: 17:30 PST (GMT-8)
Native in: English  | |
Freelancer,  Verified member | | Translation, Editing/proofreading, Desktop publishing | | Specializes in: | | Linguistics | Medical: Health Care | | Medical (general) | International Org/Dev/Coop | | Botany | Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | | Government / Politics | Nutrition | | Environment & Ecology | Zoology |
| Also works in: | | Agriculture | Livestock / Animal Husbandry | | Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) | Economics | | Forestry / Wood / Timber | Geography | | Medical: Pharmaceuticals | Science (general) |
More Less | Spanish to English - Standard rate: 0.15 USD per word / 40 USD per hour
Portuguese to English - Standard rate: 0.15 USD per word / 40 USD per hour
| | Questions answered: 3058, Questions asked: 4 Easy / 286 PRO, PRO-level points: 5865 | | Muriel 33 Medical | | PHD-Georgetown University | | Years of translation experience: 37. Registered at ProZ.com: Oct 2003. Became a member: Oct 2003. | | N/A | Portuguese to English (American Translators Association, verified)
Spanish to English (American Translators Association, verified)
| | N/A | | Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, MS Publisher, Powerpoint |  CV/Resume (RTF) | | Muriel Vasconcellos endorses ProZ.com's Professional Guidelines. | | About me
Translation from Spanish and Portuguese to English with specialization in medicine, public health, veterinary health, agriculture, environmental conservation, and linguistics. MT postediting.
25 years' experience as staff translator/reviser/editor for international organizations (OAS, then PAHO/WHO), working from Spanish and Portuguese into English (fully bilingual in Brazilian Portuguese); 15 additional years as freelance. More than 75% of work has been in medicine and public health. Freelance clients have included PAHO/WHO, OAS, ECLAC, Conservational International. Extensive experience as conference translator, reviser, and précis-writer.
Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University with emphasis on discourse analysis, translation theory, and Romance linguistics. Authored over 100 articles (many peer-reviewed) on translation theory, functional linguistics, MT; also wrote 200-page style manual for PAHO. Taught translation at Georgetown Univ. for 7 years.
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Keywords: medicine, public health, veterinary health, agriculture, environmental conservation, economics, law, linguistics, Brazil, Portuguese
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