June 1, 2000
SWET Newsletter, Number 89
SWET Summer Thursdays [event announcements]
Making Photographs "Japanese"
Presenter: Phil Ono, photographer
Technical Writing and Manual Production: Explaining the Unexplainable
Presenter: Hugh Ashton, technical writer, translator
SWETer's Secrets: Wordsmithing with High-tech Tools [new equipment and services for SOHO workers]
Presenter: Daniel Scuka, editor
Speak SWET [call for meeting topics; list to date]
2000 SWET Book Fair [report]
Dear Aunt Eva (DS) [assessing and improving one's own writing skills]
Online Trial: Kodansha Encyclopedia Offer [limited-time chance to sample new CD-ROM online]
Resource: Encyclopedia of Japan CD-ROM (electronic version of Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia]
A Day in the Life [one SWETer's workday]
Featured: Beth Cary, interpreter, translator
SWET at the Fair
Tokyo International Book Fair 2000 (NR) [report]
In Print: Profiles [magazine review]
Magazine: Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture
Monthly Meeting Reports
Writing for Magazines —The Writer-Editor Relationship (MN)
Speakers: Aeve Baldwin, Tokyo Classified; David Hulme, ACCJ Journal; Steve Mollman, J@pan Inc.; Jordanna Potter, Hakuhodo; Matt Wilce, Eye-Ai
From Pennies to Profits: Direct Marketing on a Shoestring Budget
Speaker: Thomas Ainlay, Jr., Legacy Memoirs
American Press Treatment of Japan (HA)
Speaker: Charles Burress, San Francisco Chronicle
Online Style
Further to Citations in the Internet Age (CY) [followon to issue 87 article]
"A Question of Permanence" by Donald A. Windsor (Letter to the Editor reprinted from Science, 2000)
SWET@2000
A History of SWET: The First Decade (LER, SS)
From the Steerage [Steering Committee report]
SWET Newsletter New Editorial Plan
Subheadings: Rotating managing editorship; Column editorships; SWET Newsletter schedule