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A workshop on the contribution of editorial translation practices to improve translation and translator competence

“Editing in translation” is one of the most important components of the translation industry, especially book publishing. The practices of “editing in translation” are included under various names in the curricula of translation studies departments. The purpose and scope of these courses are rarely discussed in translation studies. The practices of these courses are aimed at promoting the field and the profession. In this study, it is assumed that editorial practices can contribute to the development of translation and interpreting competence. The method suggested by Don Kiraly, who emphasizes the importance of using content that reflects the real components of the translation world was adopted for the research. In this direction, a “workshop format” in which a real translation project is implemented was used, and this workshop was held in Translation and Publishing course offered to third-year students of the Department of Translation Studies in German in Istanbul University. Within the framework of this study, certain tasks were given in parallel with the publishing processes on the basis of the needs of a publishing house with which we cooperate. Students' homework was assessed and compared. Since the instructor of the course was a participant of the workshop, which was the basis of the research, the participant observation method was applied. In the analysis of the data, questionnaire and document analysis methods were used. The permission is obtained from the ethical committee of Istanbul University for this study. From this point of view, participating in the publishing process within the framework of a workshop and applications such as report writing and editing studies, which require evaluating books and translator decisions, can be used as a method in various courses in order to improve translation competence.