Saturday, February 09, 2008
Book Review: Subtleties of Scientific Style
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Effective Onscreen Editing
Book Review
Effective onscreen editing: New tools for an old profession , by Geoff Hart. Pointe-Claire, Quebec: Diaskeuasis Publishing, 2007. 723 pages. Ebook. ISBN 978-0-9783227-0-0. US$20 outside Canada.
The First Five Pages
Book Review
The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999[K1]. 207 pages. Hardcover. ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9093-7; softcover ISBN-10: 978-0-7432-9090-3.[K2] $13.95.
Reviewed by Ginny Tapley
Thursday, July 12, 2007
“Ask Aunt Eva” Reissued
Doreen Simmons has been in Japan since 1973, writing feature articles, editing, acting, recording, and with a sideline as one of the few foreign female Sumo experts, including being a live commentator on NHK’s worldwide satellite service. [See Newsletter No. 71, “A Day in the Life.”] From 1996 to 2003, she kept SWETers on the straight and narrow with her entertaining SWET Newsletter column of solid advice, “Ask Aunt Eva.” The 24 popular “Aunt Eva” columns are still relevant for numerous dilemmas wordsmiths face in their daily work, and still deliver a smile along with sound help. They have been republished in their entirety on the SWET Web site for both nostalgic and new readers alike. On this auspicious occasion, SWET interviewed Simmons about her stint as an advice columnist.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Mind the Gaffe!
Book Review
Mind the Gaffe! by R. L. Trask. New York: Harper, 2001, 2006. 290 pages. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0061132209; ISBN-10: 0061132209. $11.16; ¥1474.
Reviewed by Kay Vreeland