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Since the book you are translating was not written in the United States, it would be subject to the terms of the Berne Convention, which essentially is an International treaty concerning copyrights. In the simplest of terms, the countries that have signed this treaty basically agree that a copyright is intact until 70 years after the death of the original ...

You'll need to contact the original author and/or their publisher. Either one will direct you to the correct person to deal with - there's no blanket rule over who has which rights, so you'll need to check who's got translation rights in your specific case, and whether that person is willing to let you translate the material "officially." Your case is even ...

I use mind mapping software (Freemind, Freeplane) to organize all of my writing projects. Blocks of text can be imported and then moved around as needed. You get a visual representation of your outline, as well as quick access to any part of your content. Areas that are completed, need content, or are under review are easy to mark with visual icons. When ...

I think the confusion may be coming from the degree title. It may be that the Master by Research is a masters degree based on existing ( or ongoing ) published research, which is possible, but implies existing published research. Research Publications mean peer-reviewed and published research work, in a set of standard journals (in IT, the ACM is the worlds ...

I doubt that there is an actual rule as you describe. In scientific circles, many people typeset their work using the LaTeX typesetting engine because of its good support for mathematical equations and so on, and because it sort of adheres to a principle of separating design from content. The LaTeX typesetting engine uses the concept of image and table ...

Communicating complicated information can be done better using short sentences, not long ones. It also is easier to check short sentences for clarity and accuracy than to check long ones. Rather than trying to squeeze an explanation that should be a page or two long into a single sentence, aim at writing accurate short sentences. In the above, I suggested ...

I believe that you are over-generalising. Figures and tables OFTEN appear at the top of a new page because of the requirement not to split them over page breaks. That does NOT mean that they must be placed there if there is enough space on the previous page to enable them to be placed where they fall naturally in the text. In a paper with many small ...

Well, as a chemist, I often have to look up constants, mechanisms and stuff. The primary help for finding what I need is neighter the table of contents nor summaries, but the index which leads me right to the exact point of information. From my point of view, maintaining a proper index is incredibly important as otherwise I couldn't use it as a reference ...

As I understand it, the contents for an academic thesis would normally include the main work and appendices only, everything else being additional to the core work that others may wish to refer to. If you look at the list in the previous question, the contents lists everything after itself. The items before are important, but mainly for the university - ...