Swet Columns
November 19, 1988
SWET Newsletter, Number 36
Getting Started: Washington and Asia [announcement]
Speaker: James Fallows
Waiting for a Written Invitation? [call for Newsletter contributions]
Happy New Year [announcement: New Year party]
Rewriting with the Pros (SS) [workshop report]
Leaders: Anne Blasing, Laurie Berman, Jiho Sargent, Doreen Simmons
Uneclipsed Summer Party (LER) [report]
Better Than Shopping Bags (FMU) [review]
Book: Japan Inc.: An Introduction to Japanese Economics (The Comic... more
July 19, 1988
SWET Newsletter, Number 35
Beer Bash Planned [announcement]
Books Galore [report: SWET used-book fair]
The Graying of SWET (LER) [financial security considerations for later years]
Proofreading from A to Z (GH) [workshop report]
Leaders: Suzy Schmidt, Becky Davis, Suzy Trumbull
Watching Your Language (GR) [workshop report: discriminatory language]
Leaders: Jocelyn Ford, Mary Pasti, William Wetherall
Hardware Info Exchange (MS)
Product: Epson VP-800 dot matrix printer
Rough Words... more
April 19, 1988
SWET Newsletter, Number 34
Toward Discrimination-free Language [workshop announcement]
Leaders: William Wetherall, Jocelyn Ford
Proofreading from A to Z [workshop announcement]
Leaders: Susie Schmidt, Suzy Trumbull, Becky Davis
Panel on Nonbiased Communication (FB) [seminar report]
Panelists: Susan Chira, New York Times; Jim Smith, Associated Press; Kazue Suzuki, Asahi News Service; Suzy Trumbull (moderator)
The Times on Women [New York Times guidelines on words relating... more
December 19, 1987
SWET Newsletter, Number 33
Fourth Annual Super SWET Special [book publishers discounts]
New Year Party [announcement]
New This Year: Child Care
Toppan Toured (EW) [report: printing plant tour]
Asahi Shimbun Revisited (GW) [report: newspaper tour]
Technicalities: STC Opens a Tokyo Chapter [organization description: The Society for Technical Communications]
Hard Questions [editorial evaluation criteria]
Ask the Publishing Hexpert [underlining type to be italicized]
Janglish [examples of Japanized English]
Over Their Shoulders [translation... more
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