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Sessions

General Session

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.