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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 | W.D. MacDonald Author's Guide to College Textbook Publishing. Association of American Publishers, 1983. Norman Mailer. The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing. Random House, 2003. At age 80, Mailer rounds up reflections on his craft as a leading novelist. Although much of what Mailer says applies to fiction, academic and other nonfiction authors will find much that can guide their work. J. Dan Marshall, "State-Level Textbook Selection Reform: Toward the recognition of fundamental control," 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. Carol Matlack. "Commentary: Memo to Jean-Marie Messier," Business Week (March 4, 2002), Page 56. Matlack, who covers French business, offers an unfriendly analysis on Vivendi business practices, citing investor doubts about whether a viable master plan exists for its diverse acquisitions, including the June 2001 purchase of U.S. education publisher Houghton Mifflin. (jv) David McClintick. "The Great American Textbook Scandal," Forbes (October 30, 2000), Pages 178-183. McClintick focuses on the California textbook adoption process in this indicting article on el-hi book publishing practices, including phantom-authoring, misrepresentation and lobbying. Among his concerns is a continuing high level of errors in school books. (jv) D. McCloskey. "Economical Writing," Economic Inquiry (April 1985), Pages 187-222. A shortbbut valuable piece on academic writing, especially technical writing. John A. McCrossan. Books and Reading in the Lives of Notable Americans: A Biographical Sourcebook. Greenwood, 2000. McCrosson, a librarian and scholar, exams the influence of what they read on 50 people prominent in U.S. history. (jv) Stephen McGinty. Gatekeepers of Knowledge: Journal Editors in the Sciences and the Social Sciences. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. Scott McLemee. "Seeing Red," Chronicle of Higher Education (June 27, 2003). Pages A11-A13. McLemee, a news reporter, revisits long-standing accusations that the late labor historian Philip Foner was not only sloppy in footnoting but lifted massive sections of his books from other works, including research from his students. Foner's defenders are quoted that the accusations are colored by the McCarthyism that plagued Foner's career and shouldn't detract from his contributions, especially on the black labopr movement. (jv) John McWhorter. "Cornel West Gives Black Scholars a Bad Rap," Wall Street Journal (April 16, 2002), Page A20. McWhorter, who prides himself as an academic writer who has a "second career" producing articles and anthologies for lay audiences, joins the fray about what are reasonable writing expectations for scholars. McWhorter says Cornel West, a popular speaker and mass-audience writer, abrogated his responsibilities by not producing anything scholarly in more than a decade. Under criticism over the issue at Harvard, West has moved to Princeton. (jv) Howard Mehlinger, "American Textbook Reform: What Can We Learn From the Soviet Experience?" 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. C. Meyer. The Writer's Survival Manual. Bantam, 1984. James A. Michener. James A. Michener's Writer's Handbook. Bantam, 1992. J. Miles. Design for Desktop Publishing: A Guide to Layout and Typography on the Personal Computer. Chronicle Books, 1987. C. Miller and K. Swift. The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing. Harper & Row, 1988. Harold T. Miller. Publishing: A Leap from Mind to Mind Fulcrum, 2004. Miller, a retired Houghton Mifflin executive who was with the company 40-plus years, tracks Houghton Mifflin's growth, especially in educational publishing. He has keen observations on the effect of state textbook adoption processes. He is critical of the 2001 sale of Houghton to French conglomerate Vivendi and cautions against foreign ownership. Harvey C. Minnich, editor. Old Favorites From the McGuffey Readers. American Book, 1936. Peter Monaghan. "A Journal Article Is Expunged and Its Authors Cry Foul," Chronicle of Higher Education (December 8, 2000), Pages A14-A18. This is the first major examination of the decision by the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy to purge a lengthy article from databases after Boise Cascade, a global wood-products company, objected to the article. The authors, all scholars, were not consulted. The authors sued, claiming their reputations had been damaged. (jv) Joseph M. Mozley. "If Not Now, When?" Pages 3-13, in Joseph M. Moxley, editor, Writing and Publishing for Academic Authors. University Press of America, 1997. Joseph M. Mozley. Publish, Don't Perish: The Scholar;'s Guiude to Academic Writing and Publishing. Praeger, 1992. L. W. Mueller. How to Publish Your Own Book. Harlo Press, 1978. Nancy C. Mulvany. Indexing Books. University of Chicago Press, 1994.
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