Handbook for Academic Authors

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HAMDBOOK FOR ACADEMIC AUTHORS
REVISED EDITION
Beth Luey - editor, author, lecturer, and former owner of her own small publishing company - explains how to choose a publisher and how to present a persuasive and well-planned proposal. Written in a conversational style that is interesting to read, her book introduces the reader to the standard publishing contract and offers advice on how to negotiate. She gives clear, common-sense guidance on preparing the final manuscript, applying for permission to quote, and producing suitable artwork. A new chapter prepared for this edition explains how authors and publishers can process electronic manuscripts and describes how computer disks can be used to generate camera-ready copy.
The author also gives advice on revising the dissertation for publication; writing and submitting journal articles; and planning, writing, and publishing the scholarly book. She tells how to handle the practical and diplomatic... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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HAMDBOOK FOR ACADEMIC AUTHORS
REVISED EDITION
Beth Luey - editor, author, lecturer, and former owner of her own small publishing company - explains how to choose a publisher and how to present a persuasive and well-planned proposal. Written in a conversational style that is interesting to read, her book introduces the reader to the standard publishing contract and offers advice on how to negotiate. She gives clear, common-sense guidance on preparing the final manuscript, applying for permission to quote, and producing suitable artwork. A new chapter prepared for this edition explains how authors and publishers can process electronic manuscripts and describes how computer disks can be used to generate camera-ready copy.
The author also gives advice on revising the dissertation for publication; writing and submitting journal articles; and planning, writing, and publishing the scholarly book. She tells how to handle the practical and diplomatic demands of editing a multiauthor volume or an anthology and provides an introduction to the very different world of textbook writing. A concluding chapter on prices and costs will help authors understand the business of publishing.
New and experienced authors alike will find this book an invaluable guide.
Comments on the first edition:
"Beth Luey has written the kind of basic text that you might think has been around for years. Well it hasn't been, and now finally is. The text is sensible and fair to all parties involved in academic publishing. Her book is especially noteworthy for disabusing authors of unrealistic expectations, while no less recalling to scholarly publishers their obligations to their authors no less than to the bottom line." irving louis horowitz
Rutgers University
" should be required reading for scholar/ authors, or would-be authors . her book is a lucid and valuable primer that renders a needed service to academic authors and publishers alike." Scholarly Publishing
"This practical, informal and knowledgeable handbook is a fine guide to the highways and byways of academic publishing. It should be of considerable value to prospective authors." lewisa. coser
State University of New York at Stony Brook
"Anyone from a graduate student to the still hyperkinetic producer (of textbooks or monographs or in between) can learn from this straightforward, sober, thorough, orderly, and practical guide, reinforced by a classified, annotated, and evaluative bibliography." American Literature Vissza