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| BIBLIO DETAILS | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | William Safire. No Uncertain Terms: More Writing from the Popular "On Language" Column in the New York Times Magazine. Simon & Schuster, 2003. One of the wordsmiths of the era looks at contemporary verbal contrivances, euphemisms, puns and coinages. Authors will enjoy this yet-another compilation of Safire's newspaper columns. Christopher Scanlan.. " Little Orphan Author," Chronicle of Higher Education,, Volume 49, Issue 15 (December 6, 2002), Page B5. Scanlan, a tetxbook author who has been through the divestiture mill himself, sympathizs with Houhton Mifflin authors now that their company has changed hands. " Call me a cynic," he says, "but I'm not convinced this ending's a happy one. (jv) Leonard Schatzkin. In Cold Type. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Schiffrin, a veteran publishing executive, offers an analytical report on the U.S. book industry but clearly from his perspective. His focus is on trade books. (jv) André Schiffrin. The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read. Verso, 2000. Schiffrin, a veteran publishing house executive, indicts the handful of global companies that have take over U.S. publishers for putting profits above cultural responsibility. Among loads of evidence, Schiffrin tells of his own unpleasant departure as managing director of Pantheon, after he and his bosses at Random House, the parent company, saw profit goals differently. (jv) André Schiffrin. "The Corporatization of Publishing." Nation (June 3, 1996), Pages 29-32. Schiffrin draws on 35 years experience as a book publishing executive to argue that conglomeration has damaged the amount of good literature that makes it to bookstore shelves. (jv) Alison Schneider. "Can Plot Improve Pedagogy? Novel Textbooks Give It a Try," Chronicle of Higher Education (May 11, 2001), Pages A12-A14. Schneider, a Chronicle reporter, finds a modest trend of fictional characters and imaginarty scenarios moving into college textbooks. She cites experts who find the technique is effective and other who call it Pablum. (jv) D. Schultz. Tools of the Writer's Trade. HarperCollins, 1990. Judith Serebnick and Stephen P. Hartner. "Ethical Practices in Journal Publishing: A Study of Library and Information Science Periodicals," Library Quarterly, Volume 6 (April 1990) Number 2, Pages 91-119. Serebnick and Hartner, both library science scholars, asked the editors of 34 journals in the discipline to rank the actions in 22 scenarios as ethical, unethical, possibly unethical or not an ethical issue. They found a strong commonality among editors on what constitutes ethical practice even though many of the journals either have minimal author guidelines on ethics or none at all. (jv) Gilbert T. Sewall and Peter Cannon. "The New World of Textbooks: Industry Consolidation and its Consequences," in Philip G. Altbach, G.P. Kell, H.G. Petrie and L.W. Weis, editors. Textbooks in American Society: Politics, Policy and Pedagogy. State University of New York Press, 1991. Patrick Shannon. "Basal Readers and the Illusion of Legitimacy," in Philip G. Altbach, G.P. Kell, H.G. Petrie and L.W. Weis, editors. Textbooks in American Society: Politics, Policy and Pedagogy. State University of New York Press, 1991. Daniel L. Sherrell, Joseph F. Hair and Mitch Griffin. "Marketing Academicians' Perceptions of Ethical Research and Publishing Behavior," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Volume 17 (Fall 1989) Number 4, Pages 315-324. The authors, all marketing scholars, surveyed 328 academicians about the ethics of editor, author and reviewer practices at academic journals in the discipline. Lapses were perceived at a higher level among less-published respondents. The article's authors suggest a code of ethics. (jv) Naomi Silverman. "From the Ivory Tower to the Bottom Line: An Editor's Perspective on College Textbook Publishing," in Philip G. Altbach, G.P. Kell, H.G. Petrie and L.W. Weis, editors. Textbooks in American Society: Politics, Policy and Pedagogy. State University of New York Press, 1991. Franklin H. Silverman. Authoring Books and Materials for Students, Academics, and Professionals. Praeger, 1998. Silverman, a prolific author widely known for his authoring workshops, provides practical information on all aspects of academic book authoring and publishing, including some about negotiating contracts that publishers don't want authors to have. Franklin H. Silverman. Publishing for Tenure and Beyond. Praeger, 1999. Silverman, himself a textbook publisher and a tenured professor, provides information about meeting publishing expectations for tenure. His emphasis is on journal publishing. Franklin H. Silverman. Self-publishing Books and Materials for Students, Academics, and Professionals. CODI Publications, 2000. Silveman, who is both self-published and published with several major houses, describes all aspects of self-publishing academic books and materials including how to set up a publishing company for less than $500. Franklin H. Silverman. Teaching for Tenure and Beyond: Strategies for Maximizing Your Student Ratings. Greenwood, 2001. Silverman, a professor-author, offers information about authoring textbooks and other materials for enhancing teaching. (jv) Franklin H. Silverman and Robert Moulton. The Impact of a Unique Cooperative American University USAID Funded Speech-Language Pathologist, Audiologist, and Deaf Educator B.S. Degree Program in the Gaza Strip. Edwin Mellen, 2002. Silverman and Moulton, both acaedmic authors, put their specialized knowledge to work in helping establish a speech pathology training program in the Gaza Strip between 1992 and 1996. They offer detailed practical information on how to conduct such programs in developing countries. Melvin Simensky. "Redefining the Rights and Obligations of Publishers and Authors," Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, Volume 2 (Spring 1984), Pages 3-11. Sara B. Sluss. "Interpreting and Applying the Acceptability Clause in Book Publishing Contracts," Book Research Quarterly, Volume 6 (Summer 1990), Pages 29-36. Sluss, a librarian, examines five trade-book court cases on the "satisfactory manuscript" provision in boilerplate publisher contracts with authors. She also examines the 1981 Authors Guild recommendation for nonpartisan experts to resolve whether a manuscript is satisfactory. Sluss concludes without any recommendation of her own. (jv) Robert Spector.Amazon.Com: Get Big Fast. HarperBusiness, 2000. Spector, a reporter, chronicles the dot-com success of Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com. (jv) Joel Spring. "Textbook Writing and Ideological Management: A Postmodern Approach," in Philip G. Altbach, G.P. Kell, H.G. Petrie and L.W. Weis, editors. Textbooks in American Society: Politics, Policy and Pedagogy. State University of New York Press, 1991. R.J. Stiggins. "Improving Assessment Where it Means the Most -- In the Classroom." Educational Leadership (October 1985), Pages 69-74. Stiggins examines different modes of testing. (jv) Meredith E. Small. "Owing a Written Explanation to the Largest Possible Audience," Chronicle of Higher Education (November 17, 2000), Page B5. Small, who writes about science for general readers, argues in this essay that popular writing should be part of what scholars do. (jv) Gerald C. Stone. "Academic Journal Article Contracts: Author Rights and Limits," Journal of Text and Academic Authoring (March 2001). Stone, a scholarly author and editor, analyzes contracts used by almost 500 journals across a great range of disciplines. After a section-by-section review of contract terms, Stone proposes elements for an author-friendly model contract. (jv) Susan Stotsky. Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write and Reason. Free Press, 1999. Valerie Strauss. "A Radical Formula for Teaching Science," Washington Post (March 18, 2003), Page A08. Strauss, a Post reporter, asks whether Joy Hakim's story-telling approach in K-12 history and science texts is the new wave. Strauss explores pros and cons but seems to side with Hakin discioples that committee-written school books are esoteric and bland and don't reach today's students. (jv) W.S. Strong. The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide, second edition. MIT Press, 1984. Sheldon Stryker. "Ethical Issues in Editing Scholarly Journals," American Sociologist, Volume 21 (Spring 1990) Number 1, Pages 84-87. In this essay Stryker reflects of ethics issues he encountered as editor of the American Sociological Review. He acknowleges that submission cannot be kept entirely in a blind trust despite review protocols: "At some point it is impossible not to become aware of who submits papers." (jv) William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, third edition. Macmillan, 1979. Who knows how nany editions this classic pocket primer on usage has been through since Strunk, an English prof at Cornell College, printed it privately in 1917, or maybe earlier. White's update for the New Yorker magazine in 1957, on which the 1959 edition is based, is still a succinct guide, although a bit dated for avant-garde grammarians on changing preferences, such as serial commas. (jv) T. Sykes. "Textbooks as Scholarship," TAA Report (October 1991), Pages 5-6. A survey of faculty members at Illinois State University concerning textbooks as scholarship. Results indicate widely varying opinions with comments on the necessity of innovation and the role of profit. (lkh)
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