Swet Columns

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

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)