Kay Cunningham's List: Writing

"Rosebud is a magazine of fiction, poetry and art which was co-founded by Graphic Classics publisher Tom Pomplun in 1993, and designed by Tom until 2003 (Issues 1–26). Starting with Issue 18, "The Rosebud Cartoon Issue", comics became a regular part of the literary mix. A limited number of back issues are available through this site. '

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'For now, let’s look at those piles of articles, stacks of books, and folders of PDFs. How do you get from a pile of articles or stack of books to a well-referenced dissertation? This process is part of prewriting. My dissertation adviser Bob Boice (who I introduced in my first column) used to say that fluent writers spend as much time on prewriting as on writing. By the time they are ready to write, these fluent writers have taken the time to read any relevant materials, thought through the ideas of others, played around with their own ideas, threw some out, modified a few, and picked one to focus on for a particular piece of writing. Also, they have carefully planned their writing by developing increasingly detailed outlines and annotating them with notes from their reading. '

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By Nicole Hennig, Web Manager, MIT Libraries

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"Writing for the web is a skill set of its own. Website text, or “copy”, needs to be written in a different tone for the web than a brochure. It needs to be built around the target keywords for the site and be written for a lower literacy audience."

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"The Google Book Search Settlement has been much in the news recently, with the Internet Archive, Philip K. Dick's heirs, consumer groups and Microsoft registering their objections to the search giant's agreement with authors and publishers. And now Justice Department anti-trust lawyers are meeting with Google about the settlement, raising the possibility of a full-blown anti-trust court showdown between the government and the world's biggest search and advertising company."

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"On Dec. 3, now known as "Black Wednesday," several major American publishers were dramatically downsized, leaving many celebrated editors and their colleagues jobless. The bad news stretches from the unemployment line to bookstores to literature itself."

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List of college/university required common readings

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'If rhet-comp is the canary in the mine for the academy more generally, what it tells us is that the professorial jobs of the future are for an increasingly managerial faculty. From the perspective of the vast majority of university teachers ineligible fo

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'But instead of relying on the predictive power of the Magic 8-Ball to respond "Outlook not so good" for writing, perhaps we should choose "Ask again later" as a better response. Nancy Bunge has noted: "Students realize that if they do not grapple with difficult, abstract texts, they will miss an important dimension of human learning and thinking."2 Does this comment represent the last gasp of a moribund print culture? Is it the desperate hope of one whose livelihood may be going the way of the farrier? Nay, let me borrow from Mark Twain: the reports of the death of writing are greatly exaggerated.'

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"A new generation of longitudinal studies, which track large numbers of students over several years, is attempting to settle this argument. The "Stanford Study of Writing," a five-year study of the writing lives of Stanford students — including Mr. Otuteye — is probably the most extensive to date."

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"Considering that the Cornell University Library spends nearly $18 million dollars on collections, $50K seems like pocket change. From an management standpoint, it may take much more that $50K in staff and faculty time to administrate and process author charges one article at a time.
This would lead a skeptic to question why such funds are necessary if there is little demand, especially at a time when libraries are asked to make deep cuts in both their staff and existing journal subscriptions. Of course, low demand may not be the future for author publishing funds, and this is where governance becomes a significant issue. "

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"But public accountability also requires that institutions be transparent in how they budget and allocate their taxpayer funds. Library Open Access policies cannot exist with secret budgets, ambiguous guidelines, and a practice of stonewalling requests for information."

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"While the paper they accepted was laughably nonsensical and there was no evidence of peer-review, the most salient communication we received from them around the paper they accepted was the invoice.
And this invoice begins the real story here.
It’s important that everyone in academic publishing realize there is a feeder issue at play — the swelling pools of author-pays funding, how they’re being managed, and policies around their use."

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'In an Open Access (OA) version of the 1996 Sokal affair, when a hoax article was accepted by an academic journal, Cornell University librarian and graduate student Phil Davis successfully submitted a manuscript full of gibberish and credited to pseudonymous authors at The Center for Research in Applied Phrenology to The Open Information Science Journal (TOISCIJ), which “claims to enforce peer-review.”'

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By Clay Shirky. "The problem newspapers face isn’t that they didn’t see the internet coming. They not only saw it miles off, they figured out early on that they needed a plan to deal with it, and during the early 90s they came up with not just one plan bu

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Suggestions for using Twitter

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"The New Media Index is a weekly report that captures the leading commentary of blogs and social media sites focused on news and compares those subjects to that of the mainstream press."

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"The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism is dedicated to trying to understand the information revolution. We specialize in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press, particularly content analysis."

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"What about the physical process of reading on a screen? How does that compare to paper?"

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"On one side of the gap are those who say such research should be free to all, that it's too valuable to keep firmly planted in the walled gardens of the prestigious journals that publish it. And for research that's taxpayer-funded, the public that paid for it, at least, deserves access."

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