- Translator's Report Card / Graded
Completion Bonus
Proofreaders will be expected to fill out a report card
on each translator's performance. This report card consists of
a brief questionnaire and statement. The score the translator
receives determines the amount of his or her completion bonus.
- Assuming that the translator completes his/her job, he/she
will receive at least 85% of the contracted amount. A high report
card rating will help to insure that 100% of the initially contracted
amount is paid.
The report card serves both as an incentive to the translator
and as a performance measurement tool for EARTH. Translators
with consistently good report cards will receive priority with
regard to future work orders.
- Though allowed to view one's report card and compare one's
results with the compiled statistics of all translators, the
names of individual translators and proofreader-graders are withheld.
- Scores will be adjusted to account for grading biases among
individual proofreader-graders.
- Translators are invited to recommend changes in the manner
in which they are graded. Once a report card has been issued,
however, no further changes should be expected.
- Similar, but different report cards will be used in the pro-active
author-client mode. Thus, after several small projects or
several segments of a large project troublesome author-clients
and translators can be identified and appropriate warnings or
measures be undertaken to inhibit current or future project completion
failure.
- Translator credits
- Only the translator's name -- not the proofreader's -- will
appear on the translated document along with EARTH's. Report
card scores will have no bearing with regard to this privilege.
- Though automatic, this privilege is voluntary, and at the
translator's request his/her name will not be included on the
final document.
- The names of translators who participate on a project but
do not see it through to the end will, in general, not appear
on the final document. In the even that a substantial contribution
was made before separation from the project, exceptions will
be made under extenuating circumstances.
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