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 Well-Mixed Metaphor [errors/oddities]

More on Professionalism: Avoiding the Sensei Syndrome (MS) [essay]

Teaching by Example: Dos and Don'ts of Grammar and Usage [humorous list]

White Nights and Book Talk: Report from the Second Feminist Book Fair (GMH)

To Communicators Great and Not So (FMU) [SWET RSVP postcards: use and postage]

Ask the Publishing Hexpert [communicating with Japanese designers and typesetters about n- and m-dashes]

Instruction [example of Japanized English: assembly and use instructions]

The Man with the Golden Voice (SM) [JAT meeting report]

Speaker: Nishiyama Sen [simultaneous J-E/E-J interpreter]

The Small(est) Press: On Starting a Newsletter for Cyclists (BH)

It Didn't Rain on Our Parade ]report: SWET annual summer party]

Our "Long Seller" [Japan Style Sheet in third printing]

Feedback from the Steering Committee (LER) [report]

Professional Rates; Cost of SWET Workshops; How is SWET Run?

Janglish [examples of Japanized English]

New Magazine for Technical Translators: The Technical Writer (WAL) [review]

Howzzat Again? or For Lack of an Editor . . . [various mistakes from the novel Practice Effect]

More on provenience

Book Mavin at Work: Something for Everyone [reviews]

On Graphics: Tips for Editors; Mastering Graphics: Design and Production Made Easy; 18 Ready-to-Use Grids; Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford; How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper; Guide for Beginning Technical Editors; The ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors; Stet! Tricks of the Trade for Writers and Editors

Freebies [catalogue giveaway]

Hemingway on Punctuation [quotation]

An Editor's Epitaph [quotation from the late Cass Canfield]

From the New Yorker [errors/oddities]