Patricia Worth

TCTerms Score: 692

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Joined: Jan. 5, 2009, last update July 9, 2009
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Working language pairs and rates:

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Services

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Proofreading, Research, Translation

Specialization

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Art history, history, literature, textiles, family, children, aged care, education, Christianity

Subject Areas

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Art, Child Care, Fibre, Textile and Weaving, History, Literature, Religion, Theology and Theological Studies

Background

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Resume

Patricia Worth

EMAIL - patricia@worth.id.au

EDUCATION

Currently enrolled part-time 

Master of Translation Studies (French) 

Australian National University, Canberra 

2007 – 2009

Graduate Diploma of Translation Studies

Australian National University, Canberra

1998 – 2005 

Bachelor of Arts (Art History & Curatorship) 

(Honours – French literature and history) 

Australian National University, Canberra

1996 – 1998 

Textiles I & II, Open College of the Arts 

(Qld Arts Council), correspondence

DEMONSTRATED ABILITIES 

Good communication skills – interpersonal, verbal and written 

Conversational and written French, including translation 

Research skills in history and French literature 

Word processing (Word for Windows, Wordperfect, OpenOffice) 

Touch typing

INTERESTS 

French language, history, literature and translation; 

English language, writing, reading (non-fiction); 

art history;  sewing;  visiting.

EMPLOYMENT 

August 2007 – Present 

French tutor 

Bee Bilingual Language Club, ACT

May 2009 – Present 

English tutor 

Smarts Home Tutoring

2003 – 2009 

French & English tutor 

self-employed

2009 

French translation – private letters;  French Polynesian documents 

self-employed

August 2008 – May 2009 

Literacy tutor – An Even Start Program, DEEWR 

Curriculum Corporation

October 2005 – March 2009 

Research assistant on WWI history project:  “Wolf Odyssey” 

Peter Hohnen, NSW

April 2006 – April 2008 

Scribe 

WRITEpeople, ACT

July 2005 – July 2008 

Proofreading English and French texts including 

novels, autobiography, grammar 

self-employed

December 2007 – January 2008 

Transcription of French interviews (New Caledonia) 

Dr Peter Brown, ANU

October 2005 – January 2006 

English tutor 

ACT Home Tutoring

VOLUNTEER WORK 

September 2006 – December 2007 

Classroom assistant 

French-Australian Preschool, Red Hill, ACT

2006 – 2008 

English to French translation:  brochure, questionnaire 

Bob Prouty

January – June 2007 

Adult literacy tutor 

Southside Community Services, ACT

Software

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OpenOffice - covers Word & PowerPoint document formats

Membership

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AUSIT - Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators Inc