Workshop leader: Mari Nishimoto
Date: Sunday July 12, 2015 14:00–17:00
Fee: JAT members 1,000 yen, JTF/SWET members 1,500 yen, Non-members 2,000 yen
Venue: U's2, Nishi-Umeda, Osaka
Map: http://fujius2.ec-net.jp/
RSVP: to <[email protected]> by July 10 stating if you will also attend the JAT/SWET Kansai Summer Party.
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One essential step, common to all forms of writing no matter what the content or usage, is the step of rereading and revising.
Translators, checkers, and others involved in the process need to check and polish text before submitting it to their clients, so rewriting is an integral part of their job. But, recently, they are receiving diverse requests, some beyond mere translation and checking, to meet their client's level of expectations.
Revising means to take a step back, look objectively at what one has written, and polish the language so that it becomes a finished product suitable for the eyes of others. One needs to think from the perspective of the reader, and be one's own editor. By making your writing easier to read, the points you want to make will also come across more clearly. The workshop will give participants a chance to write something from scratch (in Japanese) and improve it through the rewriting process.
Paper will be provided but please bring pens, pencils, erasers, red pens or coloring pencils, and dictionaries.
Mari Nishimoto (Journalist)
Mari Nishimoto started her career as a writer in 1980 when she was still in university. Presently she interviews, takes photographs, and writes articles mainly on the circus arts, movies, travels, and other cultural topics. Her articles have been published in many magazines and newspapers, such as Asahi Shimbun, AERA, and Sankei Shimbun in Japan. Four of her books, “Circus Arts, the Magic beyond the Circus in Montreal,” “Arts Vivant au Québec,” “The Circus School in Montreal,” and “Cirque du Soleil, Creativity that Changed the Circus” were published between 2003 and 2010.
1983: Started working at an editorial company for business magazine
1984: Started as a freelance writer for magazines and newspapers covering arts, movies, and travel
2015–: Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University, Osaka
Bibliography:
“Circus Arts, the Magic beyond the Circus in Montreal” (2003)
“Arts Vivant au Québec” (2003)
“Cirque du Soleil, Creativity that Changed the Circus” (2008)
“Picture book for Circus School in Montreal” (2010)
Television:
Guest appearance on the TV program "Ishii Tatsuya’s Showtime" on NHK-BS Premiere Station, featuring Cirque du Soleil (2012 and 2013)