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Join us for
the 2008 TAA Conference at Harrah's in Las Vegas, June 19-21
2008
TAA Conference Registration
Deadline Extended! Early Registration Deadline
is May 15, 2008
Register
Now
$195 for
Members before May 15, 2008
(after May 15, 2008, $245)
$245 for Non-Members before May 15, 2008
(after May 15, 2008, $295)
Join TAA
for $30! Click here for info
Book your
room at Harrah's at the special $99 conference rate by calling
888-458-8471. Use the special group code SHTEX8, when making your
reservation.
The deadline
for reserving a room at Harrah's for the special conference rate
is May 19, 2008.
Visit
Harrah's Las Vegas web site
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here for larger view of map
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 Roundtables
Roundtable
Discussions Luncheon
Friday, June 20, 2008
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Reno Room
Choose from
a variety of moderated roundtable discussions related to textbook
or academic authoring.
How Roundtable
Discussions will work
Roundtable Discussions will be held in conjunction with a boxed
lunch on Friday, June 20 (time be announced). Select a boxed lunch
(included in your conference registration fee) and then choose
the table identified with the Discussion Topic you wish to participate
in. Discussions will be available on a first-come, first-served
basis.
Roundtable
Discussion Topics & Moderators:
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Publisher's
Roundtable
click here for info
Moderators:
Mary Ellen Lepionka, Founder, Atlantic Path Publishing,
and the author of books and articles on academic and educational
writing and publishing and Lauren Betsos, Marketing Services
Coordinator, Cengage Learning, Engineering.
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Mary
Ellen Lepionka
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E-books
and Royalties
click here for info
Moderator:
Stephen E. Gillen, Authoring Attorney, Greenebaum Doll
& McDonald
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Stephen
E. Gillen
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Preparing
the Next Edition
click here for info
Moderator:
Steven Barkan, Professor of Sociology at the University
of Maine, and the author of five textbooks and one trade
book
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Steven
Barkan
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Deciphering
Your Royalty Statement
click here for
info
Moderator:
Paul Rosenzweig, former President of Royalty Review
Service, Inc., representing authors who wanted to confirm
the accuracy of their royalty statements, and a former consultant
to the successor firm, Royalty Review LLC
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Paul
Rosenzweig
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K-12
Authoring and Publishing
click here for info
Moderator:
Don Collins, former managing editor of the nation's
best-selling Pre-Algebra text and author and co-author of
several mathematics textbooks
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Don
Collins
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Working
with Co-Authors
click here for info
Moderators:
Frank Wilson, Professor, Chandler-Gilbert Community
College
and
Laura Taalman, Associate Professor of Mathematics at James
Madison University
Frank
Wilson |
Laura
Taalman |
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Creating
a Successful Author-Editor Relationship
(how to form a good relationship with your editor and
why that's important)
click here for info
Moderator:
Janet Belsky, Professor, Psychology, Middle Tennessee
State University, and author of three psychology textbooks
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Janet
Belsky
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Open
Discussion for Non-Tenured Professors & Those New to
Higher Education
click
here for info
Moderators:
Andrew Johnson, Professor of Holistic Education, Minnesota
State University, Mankato
and
Prof. Lynne Brodeur, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
Dept. of Medical Laboratory Science
Andrew
Johnson |
Lynne
Brodeur |
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Share
Near-Finished Article Drafts with 'Little-e experts' and
'Capital-E Experts'
(Little-e
experts include anyone trained in your discipline; Capital-E
Experts include the biggest experts in your discipline or
your sub-discipline.)
click
here for info
Moderator:
Tara Gray, Presenter of the TAA-sponsored "Publish &
Flourish: Become A Prolific Scholar" workshop
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Tara
Gray
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TAA reserves
the right to make changes to the program and speakers or cancel
sessions.
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