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...succeeded. The Press published his most recent book on medical history, “Hysterical Men,” last fall.Obtaining the rights to publish a book is only the beginning of an extended process. Authors keep in constant contact with their editors, as they send in chapters and discuss ideas.“They helped me present my material so that it would maximize its interest and reach beyond just other academic specialists,” Micale explains.Manuscript editors then go through the draft to improve the quality of the prose. Before it can be printed, the manuscript must...
...somewhat dismayed, however, that Smith did not discuss the possibility of pay cuts for high-level administrators, even as other universities move in that direction. At Brown University, for instance, President Ruth Simmons is reported to have taken a pay cut of 20 percent whereas at Harvard, salaries of faculty members and high-level officials have merely been frozen. In an economic climate that threatens the livelihood of many staff members, it seems wrong not to at least consider the feasibility of lower pay for senior university officials...
...revamped it to present the material in a different way—emphasizing point of view, voice, and narration, as well as narrative structure and plot. Holinger says that he devotes a lot of time in this course to focusing on the students’ own work and discussing the process behind writing a novel. According to Holinger, “Writing a novel is a huge enterprise. Everyone does it differently, and so we discuss process in just about every class.”In addition, Holinger also invites a novelist to speak to his students every semester...
Plouffe, a visiting fellow at the IOP this semester, began by addressing the campaign’s surprising loss in New Hampshire and went on to discuss topics ranging from John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin to the current state of the Republican party...
...professors stressed the importance of implementing an ethnic studies curriculum in a discussion at Sever Hall yesterday evening. Seventeen students gathered to hear Glenda R. Carpio—an associate professor of African and African-American Studies—and Jigna Desai—a visiting associate professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department—praise a newly-proposed ethnic studies program, which they said would allow students to discuss questions of racial and ethnic identity in an academic setting. “People end up talking in dorm rooms or over this kind of food, which...