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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

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

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)

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

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

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