Turned in freelance magazine writing pitch letter.
Some guidelines for your group presentation
- 10 - 15 minutes in length
- Your audience is this class. However, if you wish to take a creative approach and address us as your target audience, e.g. potential clients, please work that into your presentation. It makes a great opener.
- One person can do all the talking, but it's more interesting to split it up and allow each person to talk about his/her pieces and role in the project.
- Present each deliverable in your project and talk about the process of creating it.
- Share each deliverable by using technology available (document camera, Internet) and pass around your finished project.
- Discuss the decisions you had to make along the way.
- Discuss how you catered your project to your audience.
- Share any helpful resources you found in researching your genre.
- Be prepared to take questions (and be prepared to ask them of other presenters!)
-Read Chapter 17 on oral presentations to prepare for your presentation. Also read Chapter 10 on ending a communication.
-Memo on preparing your group presentation
-Blog post on The Persuaders. For launching points, visit The Persuaders Forum.
-Our guest speaker next week is in the book publishing business. Preferably by Friday, post questions here to managing editor Tom Sumner. Visit his company website to see books his company has published. Some launching points for questions include
- Book editing, including comp. sci., English usage, fiction, general nonfiction
- Book development
- Design & layout
- Writing
- Editing on the Internet
19 comments:
As a former Comp. Sci. Major I have seen a few incomprehensible text books. My question for you as an editor is how do you separate the technical jargon from Standard English and then manage to combine the two into an understandable format.
In your experience, how is reader comprehension most affected by the design or layout.
How many revisions does a book typically go through before it's published?
What kind of process do you go through to decide on the graphic layout for books?
Your website shows quite a variance in subject matter of the books that your company is involved with, which is your favorite thus far?
What type of writing does your company generally look for?
After perusing your website, an old idiom rang out in my head, "don't judge a book by its cover".
A book's cover essentially creates the first impression on a potential buyer. I would assume it's of utmost importance to capture the attention, and eventually lure in the buyer with the cover first. Is the cover the most important part of the design/layout process?
What is the most important aspect of your job?
What is the average duration of time it takes to get a book on the market?
Where did you start in your career in publsihing? Were you an avid writer all along?
Does editing require a love of constructive criticism, necessary to get certain markets to buy, or simply a refining process by which book business is done?
What is opinion on the SONY reader? How has that type of technology impacted the way you do business?
As a student, I dislike when you buy an online e-book you only get the flash document and not the entire PDF of the book, which limits the searching capability. Which method do you think is better flash or PDF?
What are some of the reasons to bring out different editions of a book so quickly?
What's the general process from conception to publishing of a book? How is it different for textbooks, fiction or non-fiction?
What is your average turnaround time for a paperback book? Hardback book?
How quickly do you think the majority of the world will move to reading content on a screen?
Do you believe that the proliferation of free internet will compromise the ability of publishers and authors to get paid in the future the way they are at present?
What are the most important things you look for before publishing?
How influential is the coverart of a book in regards to making it a more sellable item?
What is your favorite book?
Does "being published" mean the same thing today as it used to or has it gotten a lot easier?
With the recent release of the ipad how much of the future market do you foresee gravitating towards Ebooks? Do you believe the publishing industry will embrace this change or prolong the current medium for as long as possible?
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