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Sessions
General
Session
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Barbara
Waxer

Paul
Siegel

E.D.
Cormier
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Making
Your Work More Visual
Saturday,
June 21, 9 to 9:45 a.m.
Las Vegas Room
Presenters:
Barbara Waxer, co-author of Internet Surf and Turf: The Essential
Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Finding Media; Paul Siegel,
Professor of Communication, University of Hartford; E.D. Cormier,
former advertising, marketing, public relations copywriter
Barbara Waxer,
the co-author of Internet Surf and Turf: The Essential Guide
to Copyright, Fair Use, and Finding Media, will illustrate
the moderate to advanced skills used in preparing a manuscript
and an art manuscript for figures and illustrations using Word
and PowerPoint. The second edition of Paul Siegel's Communication
Law in America has received positive comments for its unusual
array of visual elements. Among those visuals are thirty original
cartoons which he commissioned from a talented art student at
the University of Hartford. In this presentation Siegel will share
with us some of those cartoons and the stories behind them, and
will suggest that writers of text and academic books alike might
want to consider this relatively inexpensive way to make our work
more visual, while giving young artists a much appreciated "byline."
About
the Presenters:
Barbara
Waxer is a freelance author and developmental editor of computer
software and Internet intellectual property textbooks for the
academic and trades markets. Her clients include Cengage /Course
Technology and Delmar Learning, Microsoft Press, Perspection Press,
Pearson-Prentice Hall, and Sybex Press. Her 2006 text, Internet
Surf and Turf: The Essential Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and
Finding Media, published by Cengage Course Technology, won
the Text and Academic Authors Association "Texty" Award and the
New England Book Show Award. Waxer also teaches Copyright and
Digital Media at Santa Fe Community College and provides training
in that topic to college faculty and student bodies around the
country. Her current book, Adobe Photoshop Elements, will
be published by Course Technology later this year.
Paul Siegel
is a professor of communication at the University of Hartford,
where he teaches a wide variety of classes. His specialty is communication
law, and it is in this field where he writes textbooks. Communication
Law in American, and its companion Cases in Communication Law
are in their second editions, available from Rowman & Littlefield.
Siegel's Ph.D. is from Northwestern, with an M.A. from Wisconsin,
and a B.A. from New Mexico. He has been on the board of the ACLU
for about 20 years, and was on the staff as executive director
for the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri in the 1980s. He is
currently serving as TAA Vice President/President-Elect.
E.D. Cormier
comes with half a century of advertising, sales, marketing
and public relations copywriting, script and technical writing
experience. While writing about hypergolic rocket engines, a new
plastic, or the money-saving benefits of a business service he
has put in enough time to earn a carpel tunnel - fortunately yet
to be awarded. As a corporate advertising manager or marketing
CEO his compensation hinged heavily on motivating customers and
prospects to act on benefits and features described using words,
pictures, drawings diagrams and even music. Ed promises to present
a different prospective on the interdependency of available tools
in the communicator's box.
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