2002
San Diego
June 21-22

Horton Grand Hotel, San Diego

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Itinerary

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
TAA Council meeting, Part 1

Presider: TAA president
Agenda:

• Agenda approval
• Minutes from January
• Election results
• 2003 convention
• Minutes
• Office report
• Executive director report
• Newsletter report
• Authors Coalition: Fund distribution, TAA role
• Committee structure: Constitution
• Membership recruitment, workshops, chapters
• Budget 2002-2003

Members welcome. Agenda at door.

Room: Rose Room.

THURSDAY, JUNE 20

8:00 a.m. - 12 Noon
TAA Council meeting, Part 2

Presider: TAA president
Agenda: Continued from previous day

Members welcome. Agenda at door.

Room: Rose Room.

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1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
TAA committee meetings

Members welcome.

Room: To be announced.

• Awards: Donna Besser, chair.
• Membership: Michael Lennie, chair; Terry Wesner; Paul Siegel; Steve Gillen.
• Publishers relations: Michael Sullivan, chair.
• Nominations: Michael Sullivan, chair.
• Ethics: Jay Black, chair.
• E-journal: Chris Harris, chair.
• Author organization liaison: Steve Gillen, chair.
• Grants: Mary Kay Switzer, chair.
• Author relations: Bill Pasewark, chair.
• Convention: Chris Harris, chair; Jay Black; Michael Lennie; Paul Siegel.
• Budget: John Wakefield, chair.

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3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
TAA committee reports

Members welcome.

Room: Rose Room.

FRIDAY, JUNE 21

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Welcomes and Introductions

TAA president: Michael Sullivan
TAA executive director: Ron Pynn
Convention program chair: Michael Lennie

Room: Rose Room

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9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Keynote: Characteristics of High-Performing Professionals

Introducer: Michael Lennie
Speaker: Harry Weinberg, former Superintendent of Public Education, San Diego County

Room: Rose Room

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10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Geo-Primer: San Diego

Speaker: Robert Christopherson (geography), American River College Speaker: Bobbé Christopherson, (geography), Lincoln, California

Room: Rose Room

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11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel: Distance Learning
Two early explorers in the field explain a budding new market for textbooks.

Panelist: Winkey Fordney
Panelist: Karen Morris (law), Monroe County Community College

Room: Rose Room

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12:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Lunch

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1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Panel: Successful and Prolific Textbook Authors

Panelist: Kåren Hess (English), Normandale Community College
Panelist: Lee Mountain (reading), University of Houston

Room: Rose Room

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2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Panel: The Problem With Plagiarism
Two lawyers discuss potential problems incurred by textbooks authors in the areas of plagiariam and copyright violations.

Panelist: Steve Gillen, Publishing lawyer
Panelist: Michael Lennie, authors attorney and literary agent

Room: Rose Room

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3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Workshop: Revise Your Text Efficiently
A popular workshop presenter offers a condensed version of her day-long workshop: How to revised around key sentences and how to solciit transformative feedback. Participants are invited to bring three copies of one paragraph of text that they would like to revise during the workshop.

Presenter: Tara Gray (New Mexico State University (criminal justice)

Room: Rose Room

SATURDAY, JUNE 22

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Speaker: "Marketing Your Work."
A former textbook editor now makes available the wisdom gained over a career with major publishers.

Speaker: David Brake

Room: Rose Room

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9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Presentation: Contract Negotiations Or How to Get What You Deserve

Moderator: Inside tips that can make a difference between a profitable and an unprofitable authoring experience
Panelist: Michael Lennie, authors attorney and literary agent
Panelist: Steve Gillen, publishing lawyer

Room: Rose Room

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10:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.
Panel: Professors and Authoring
How the tenure committee views the associate professor. Avoiding institutional claims for a share of the royalty.

Panelist: Alexander Gonzales, president, California State University at San Marcos
Panelist: Serafin Zasueta, president, Southwestern Community College

Room: Rose Room

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11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Presentation: The State of Text and Academic Authoring
TAA's editor offers an update on key events affecting text and academic authors in the past year.

Speaker: John Vivian (journalism), Winona State University

Room: Rose Room

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12:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Lunch

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1:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Workshop: Self-Publishing
The world's leading speaker on self-publishing shares his experience on doing it yourself. Poynter's Para Publishing produces dozens of books. Poynter hismelf has issued 76 editions, many of them best-selling technical and popular titles.

Presenter: Dan Poynter

Room: Rose Room

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7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Awards and Recognitions Banquet

Room: Regency Room

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Award Winners

TEXTY AWARD
Life Sciences (College)
Frederic Martini:
Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology
Prentice Hall
Editor: Halee Disney

TEXTY AWARD
Computer Science / Engineering (El-hi)
Scott G. Pasewark,William R. Pasewark Jr., William R. Pasewark Sr., Carolyn Pasewark Denny, Frank M. Stogner, Jan Pasewark Stogner and Beth Pasewark Wadsworth:
Microsoft Office XP, Introductory Course,
Course Technology
Editor: Robert Gaggin

TEXTY AWARD
Communication / Education / Performing Arts / Visual Arts (College)
Paul Siegel:
Communication Law in America,
Allyn & Bacon
Editor: Mandee Eckersley

TEXTY AWARD
Computer Science / Engineering (College)
William Stallings:
Operating Systems
Prentice Hall
Editor: Toni Holm

TEXTY AWARD
Mathematics / Statistics (College)
Michael Sullivan:
Sullivan¹s College Algebra
Prentice Hall
Editor: Sally Yagan

TEXTY AWARD
Computer Science / Engineering (College)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum:
Modern Operating Systems,
Prentice Hall
Editor: Alan Apt

TEXTY AWARD
Physical Sciences (El-hi)
Antony C. Wilbraham, Dennis D. Staley, Michael S. Matta and Edward L. Waterman:
Addison Wesley Chemistry 2002
Prentice Hall
Editor: Julia Fellows Osborne

MCGUFFEY AWARD
Physical Sciences (El-Hi)
Antony C. Wilbraham, Dennis D. Staley and Michael S. Matta:
Addison Wesley Chemistry
Prentice Hall
Editor: Julia Fellows Osborne

MCGUFFEY AWARD
Physical Sciences (College)
C.W. Fetter
Applied Hydrogeology
Prentice Hall
Editor: Patrick Lynch

MCGUFFEY AWARD
Life Sciences (College)
Marilyn T. Fordney:
Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office
W.B. Saunders
Editor: Adrianne C. Williams

MCGUFFEY AWARD
Accounting / Business / Economics / Management (College)
Michael Mescon, Courtland Bovee and John Thill:
Business Today
Prentice Hall
Editor: David Parker

MCGUFFEY AWARD
(Accounting / Business / Economics / Management (College)
William Stallings
Computer Organization and Architecture
Prentice Hall
Editor: Toni Holm

MCGUFFEY AWARD
Communication / Education / Performing Arts / Visual Arts (College)
Thomas L. Tedford and Dale A. Herbeck:
Freedom of Speech in the United States,
Strata Publishing
Editor: Kathleen Domenig. Consulting Editor: Franklyn S. Haiman

MCGUFFEY AWARD
Language / Liteature (College)
Jean-Paul and Rebecca Valette
Langue et Culture Françaises
Houghton Mifflin
Editor: Randy Welch

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