Swet Columns

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]

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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

SWET Newsletter, Number 26

Best Foot Forward: Professional Communication [workshop announcement]

Speaker: Charlotte Kennedy Takahashi, Oak Associates

The Book Service is Back!: And That's Not All, Folks [new bookseller: The Bookcase]

Save 30% to 50% – or More – Through SWET; New Book Service Address

Incorporation, Ltd. (ALB) [workshop report: panel discussion]

Panelists: Ruth McCreery, Bill, Lise, Larry Bouchard, Sasaki Shuichi

J-Star/A-Star: System of... more

Essays on Professionalism

Five essays by veteran SWET members address aspects of professionalism, particularly in a Japanese context, among writers, editors, translators, and those in allied professions. These opinion pieces were contributed to the SWET Newsletter by (in order of appearance) Lynne E. Riggs, Suzanne Trumbull, Mark Schreiber, Fred Uleman, and again Mark Schreiber.

 

    What It Means to Be a Professional

by Lynne E. Riggs

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SWET Newsletter, Number 25

Incorporation, Ltd.: Start Your Own Company [panel announcement]

Panelists: Ruth McCreery, Bill Lise, Larry Brouhard

J-STAR Demonstration [demonstration announcement: word processor]

1986 Directory[issuance notice]

Proud Send-off [JAT goes independent]

Happy New Year [report: party]

Library Relocates [British Council library to Kagurazaka]

Attention Poets [Tokyo English Literature Society contest]

From the New Yorker: Silver Lining Department [errors/oddities]

Books á la Mode [reviews]

New Words Dictionary (SS)

SWET Newsletter, Number 24

Newsweek! [JAT meeting announcement]

Speaker: Takashi Ota, Editor in Chief, Pacific International Edition

New Year Party [announcement]

Super SWET Special [book publishers discounts]

Indexing from A to Z (MP) [workshop report]

Leaders: Gail Umehara, Nina Raj

The Whazits [reference to calendar years]

SWET Meets the Macintosh (RB) [demonstration report: Macintosh computer]

Demonstrator: Ken Otake

The Writing of No-Writing (ALB) [workshop report: Zen and... more