Articles
October 19, 1987
SWET Newsletter, Number 32
Asahi Shimbun Tour [announcement]
Toppan Printing Company Tour [announcement]
Copywriting for Fun and Profit (BW) [workshop report]
Leader: John McCreery
Technicalities: The Technical Editor
Guide for Beginning Technical Editors [excerpt]
Perils and Pleasure of Publishing: A Journal from Kyoto (JE) [startup of periodical Kyoto Journal]
Howzzat Again? or the Mystery of the Misplaced Apostrophe [its vs. it's]
Misspelling of the month [errors/oddities]
Embarras de Richesses... more
July 19, 1987
SWET Newsletter, Number 31
The Art of Writing Ads [workshop announcement]
Leader: John McCreery
Calling Editors and Rewriters [proposal and call for volunteers: critique workshop]
The Rights Stuff (NR) [report: talks on publishing translations]
Speakers: William Miller, Kurita Akiko
Janglish [examples of Japanized English]
Credit Where It's Due [contributors to this issue]
Rough Words, Continued (JS)
hardly; know-how; newly developed; recommendable; so-called; substitute
Desktop Publishers Organize (HB)... more
March 19, 1987
SWET Newsletter, Number 30
Fully Booked [report: SWET book sale]
1987 Directory [issuance]
Coming Attractions [future events: talk – writing; workshop – copywriting; panel discussion – book translation, publishing, distribution in Japan]
Afterglow [report: New Year party]
Ask the Publishing Hexpert [apostrophe s following parenthesis]
On Rough Words [response to Newsletter issue 29 column]
It can be said that and It is said that; highly evaluated (JT)
December 19, 1986
SWET Newsletter, Number 29
New Year Party [announcement]
Third Annual Super SWET Special [book publishers special discounts]
Desktop Publishing (WAL) [workshop report]
Leader: Becky Davis
Desktop Publishing on the Mac (ALB) [demonstration report: Apple Macintosh desktop publishing system]
SWET Book Service Expires [discontinued due to insurmountable complexities]
Directory Update [call for changes, additions]
1st Asia World Publishing Congress Planned [convention announcement]
Rough Words Ahead; Proceed with Caution (AS)
abundant;... more
October 19, 1986
SWET Newsletter, Number 28
Mac Desktop System Demonstration [announcement]
Making Desktop Publishing Look Good [workshop announcement]
Leader: Becky Davis
The Craft of Rewriting (MP) [discussion report]
Panelists: Hunter Brumfield, Dr. Mary Louise Robbins, Doreen Simmons; Suzy Trumbull (moderator)
Rewriters' Alert (ref: LA, KM) [proposal: rewriters' subgroup]
A Visit to the Printer (SS) [tour report: Dai Nippon Printing]
The Politics of Translation (JL) [report: translation conference in Malaysia]
A... more
June 19, 1986
SWET Newsletter, Number 27
Summer Party [announcement]
Connecting Across Cultures (SS) [workshop report]
Speaker: Charlotte Kennedy Takahashi, Oak Associates
A Star/J Star Revisited (WAL) [clarifications of report in Newsletter issue 26]
The Japan Foreign-Rights Centre: Exporting Japanese Publishing Rights (LER) [agency gives advice, information to translators, publishers]
Ask the Publishing Hexpert [pitfalls of proportional typeface use]
What Makes a Translator Professional? (ST) [essay]
Necessary Nightmares: Translating [author: Hisao Kanaseki;... more