Question: Moving the writer toward the reader would be an example of what type of translation method?
Sentence: In his seminal lecture "On the Different Methods of Translation" (1813) he distinguished between translation methods that move "the writer toward [the reader]", i.e., transparency, and those that move the "reader toward [the author]", i.e., an extreme fidelity to the foreignness of the source text.
Answer in sentence: yes