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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Seven Habits Interpreted for the Class Room - Kee Chan

http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129620/

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Platforms and Options for Self Publishing

Self publishing becomes an accepted activity. Penguin is buying author solutions.

Popular platforms for Self Publishing

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

Smashwords

BookBaby

Barnes and Noble's Pubit

Lulu

Booktango

iBooks Author

CreateSpace

iUniverse

Xlibris

AuthorHouse

Scribd

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20010547-82/how-to-self-publish-an-ebook/

Established and Reputed Publishing Houses Enter Self Publishing Business

Last week Pearson, the owner of Penguin Books, bought one of the largest grassroots publishers, Author Solutions, based in Indiana, in the US, for £74m ($116m).

Author Solutions started in 2007, has marketed and distributed 190,000 titles for 150,000 authors and has grown at a rate of 12% in the past three years.

BookStats, which has collected data from 2,000 publishers across America, including fiction titles, as well as higher education, professional and academic publishing products found that ebook revenues for US publishers doubled to more than $2bn in 2011. 211,000 self-published books made their debut last year, 50% up on the previous year.

John Makinson, Penguin's chief executive, has pointed out that the company is once more in the vanguard position to support the upcoming segment in publishing business.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/penguin-buys-self-publishing-author-121910166.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577537092288601370.html

Success - Quotation - Soichiro Honda,

‘Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.’

Soichiro Honda,
Founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
(1906-1991)

Better modified as

"Success can only be achieved through repeated failure, introspection and improved effort.".(22.7.2012)

Why Blogging by Students? - Benefits

http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2012/jul/17/students-should-be-blogging 17 July 2012

http://edudemic.com/2012/02/blog-with-students/

http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/challenges-2/blogging-with-students/

http://educationaltechnologyinelt.blogspot.in/2011/08/how-to-start-blogging-with-students.html

http://www.google.com/educators/p_blogger.html

http://murcha.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/20-reasons-why-students-should-blog/

Friday, July 20, 2012

Editorial Processes - Lecture Notes - Prof Ross Collins

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Section One

Reading One: Editors and how they work.

Reading Two: Why editing is important.

Reading Three: A view of reality.

Reading Four: An editor's constraints.

Reading Five: Editing nuts n' bolts.

Reading Six: Proofreading, grammar. Also read The best of AP Style.

Reading Seven: Word clutter.

Reading Eight: Using quotations.

Reading Nine: Clichés.

Reading Ten: Leads, active voice.

Reading Eleven: Writing concisely.

Reading Twelve: The big picture.

Reading Thirteen: Editing for the web.

Section Two

Reading Fourteen: Writing headlines.

Reading Fifteen: Using type.

Section Three

Reading Sixteen: Handling photos and illustrations.

Reading Seventeen: Dummy sheets and copy control.

Reading Eighteen: Instructor's basic guide to InDesign software for editors.

(Altnernative: basic guide to PageMaker, )