Special
Convention Update
March
8, 2005
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Insight Into
Publishing Contracts
Steve Gillen, a
publishing and copyright lawyer with Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, will
present a session at the TAA conference in Las Vegas that gives insight
into the process of negotiating a publishing contract for an educational
work. The presentation will be based on a paper funded by TESOL (Teachers
of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.), the professional association
of English as a second language teachers, that looked at education publishing
contracts from three different perspectives: the commercial publisher
(represented by McGraw-Hill), the university press (represented by University
of Michigan Press), and the author (though Gillen's voice). The paper,
presented in a Q&A format, shows how authors can put themselves in the
best position to deal with the commercial publisher and the university
press in contract negotiations, Gillen said. "It gives insight into
questions such as 'when I agree to provide a manuscript, what does that
mean?'; How do we settle on a delivery date?; How do we decide on book
length?: etc." Attendees will receive copies of the paper.
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Step Six to Becoming
a More Prolific Scholar
Tara Gray, who will
present her popular writing workshop, "Publish and Flourish: Become
a Prolific Scholar" as a 10-hour pre-conference workshop at the TAA
convention in Las Vegas in June, shares the sixth step in becoming a
more prolific scholar (Gray will be sharing a step in each News Alert
leading up to the convention): Organize around key sentences. Ideally,
the topic of each paragraph should be explained in one sentence located
early in the paragraph and supported by the rest of the paragraph. This
key or topic sentences help readers negotiate each paragraph quickly
and well. A key sentence is much like a topic sentence: it announces
the topic of the paragraph simply and with little detail, according
to Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb, in their book, Style: Toward
clarity and grace. It announces the topic without trying to prove the
point: the rest of the paragraph serves that function. A key sentence
differs from what many people were taught about topic sentences because
a key sentence need not be the first sentence in a paragraph, say Williams
and Colomb.
To register for
Gray's pre-convention workshop, click to download a registration form
here.
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to download convention and workshop registration PDF forms.
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Register Now
to Attend TAA Convention in Las Vegas!
TAA is returning
to Las Vegas this year to hold its annual convention. Attending this
year's convention is no gamble, however; new authors will find solid
ideas for getting started in textbook or academic authoring and veterans
will find challenging sessions too! Register for the 2005 TAA convention,
to be held at the Imperial Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, Friday, June 24
and Saturday, June 25. To register, contact TAA at (727) 563-0020 or
TEXT@tampabay.rr.com. Download
a registration form here.
Room rates for TAA convention attendees are $85 per night until May
20.
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