Özet:

The translation projects, which are often carried out under the name of the Graduate Project in the Bachelor's Programs of Translation, offer students the opportunity to apply and experience the processes they will encounter as a translator by combining the achievements they have gained from different courses. The projects carried out in the Department of English Translation of the Istanbul New Century University are based on the translation of texts, which are mainly the source language of English, not previously translated into Turkish and consisting of at least 10,000 words. Projects consist of stages such as the selection of the text to be translated, the justification of the choices, the approval of the experimental translation, the completion of the scheduled sections within the defined calendar, the correction of the recommended sections in accordance with feedback and, if necessary, the re-examination with the project consultant, the implementation of a preliminary reading on when the translation is completed, the sharing of the translation decisions in a presentation with the class, the updating of the translation in the light of the recommendations coming if necessary, the completion of the final reading, the introduction and the end of the project together with the results sections. In this study, Laurie B. Friedman’s first three children’s books, Mallory McDonald’s, were shared by three students as separate projects in such a way that each would translate a different book. Students did not communicate with each other about their translation decisions during the translation process, and when the translations were completed, they gathered together and discussed the decisions they made as a result of the indicative analysis they made on the text, and they also shared with the class by searching for agreement points. This article provides an example of the common ground that will be established through the texts that the three translators who have received the same training approach to the common indicators differently, in the translation of the different books of a series, if more than one translator takes the task.