Workshops and AGM planned for 27th April

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We are holding two workshops and our AGM on Friday 27 April at Aston University, followed by a meal at Browns near the Bullring in the city centre. The afternoon workshop is free to WMG members.


You can book for the workshops separately or come to both and make a day of it. The morning workshop is on financial translation and will be led by Javier Gill. The afternoon workshop features a talk on ''The widespread and increasing use of controlled or simplified versions of English by technical writers and translators", given by Dr Stephen Crabbe from Portsmouth, and a demonstration of Trados software by Charlie Gobbett.

Please see our Events page for further details.

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