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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 | Walsennurh, Stephen. Gatekeepers of Knowledge: Journal Editors in the Sciences and the Social Sciences. Bergin &Garvey, 1999. Lissa Warren. The Savvy Author's Guide to Book Publicity. Carroll & Graf, 2004. Warren, publicity director at Da Capo Press, gears her advice to trade-book authors, but some tips can be adapted for academic works. Lindsay Waters. "Are University Presses Producing Too Many Series for Their Own Good?" Chronicle of Higher Education (October 27, 2000), Pages B7-B9. Waters, the humanities editor at Harvard University Press, suggests that university presses lost their role in promoting the finest scholarship when the control of these presses passed to "professionals" brought in from the trade press. (jv) Bella Hass Weinberg. Can You Recommend a Good Book on Indexing? Infofrmation Today, 1998. This book contains a selection of top journal reviews of popular books on indexing. The items reviewed fall under the following headings: general and theoretical works, book indexing, database indexing and records management, thesauri, and computer-assisted and automatic indexing. Jacob Weisberg. "Rough Trade." New Republic (June 17, 1991). Weisberg stirred a hornet's nest in criticizing profit-eager book publishers for de-emphasizing the editing process to cut costs and rush books to market to score earlier revenue returns. See also the letters to editors in the subsequent July 15 New Republic. (jv) Hans H. Wellisch. Glossary of Terminology in Abstracting, Classification, Indexing, and Thesaurus Construction,second edition. Information Today, 2000. This updated version defines terms used in writings on abstracting, indexing, classification, and thesaurus construction, as well as terms for the most common types of documents and their parts. John H. Westerhoff Ill. McGuffey and His Reader: Piety, Morality and Education in 19th Century America. Abington, 1978. (jv) G. Wiggins. "Creating Tests Worth Taking." Educational Leadership (April 1989), Pages 121-127. G. Wiggins and J. McTighe. Understanding by Design. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1989. Joseph M. Williams.Style: Towards Clarity and Grace. University of Chicago Press, 1995. R. Williams.The Non-DesignerŐs Design Book. Peachpit, 1990. Dale M. Willows and Harvey A. Houghton. Basic Research: The Psychology of Illustration, Volume 1. Springer-Verlag, 1987. Gives an overview of current thinking and research concerning the role of illustrations in learning. Includes discussins of memory, the effect of pictures on prose, and the role of charts, graphs and diagrams. (lkh) Kate Wittenberg. "Schoarly Editing in the Digital Age," Chronicle of Higher Education (June 20, 2003), Page B-12. Wittenberg, directror of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University, sees "a brave new world" in which authors, editors and designers become truly collabortive. She sees less processing and more creating. Kate Wittenberg. "Electronic Publisher: A 'Whether' Report,"Chronicle of Higher Education (December 15, 2000), Page B24. Wittenberg, director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University, reviews the shift to electronic databases for scholarship and asks fundamental questions. Among them: Does digital storage change how scholars do their work? (jv) Kenneth K. Wong and Tom Loveless, "The Politics of Textbook Policy: Proposing a Framework," 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. A. Woodward, D.L. Elliott and K.C. Nagel. Textbooks in School and Society: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Research. Garland, 1988. An extensive bibliography and guide to all aspects of textbooks. The logical place to begin any research concerning textbooks. (lkh) Women on Words and Images Society. Dick and Jane as Victims: Sex Stereotyping in Children; s Readers. Princeton, New Jersey: Women on Words and Images Society, 1972.The society, which focuses on sex and race stereotypes in literature, reports here on a study of 134 elementary pupils using 14 different basal readers for the messages that children pick up on their place in life. Conclusion: Dick was perceived with strong traits, Jane with subordinate, less favorable (jv) A. Woodward, D.L. Elliott and K.C. Nagel. Textbooks in School and Society: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Research. Garland, 1988. An extensive bibliography and guide to all aspects of textbooks. The logical place to begin any research concerning textbooks. (lkh) L. Pilar Wyman, Indexing Specialties: Medicine. Information Today, 1999. Wyman, includcdex contributions from more than a dozen noted indexers. More than a how-to, the book features an interview with two veteran book indexers and a biography of a database indexer. The book includes a detailed discussion of indexing medical specialties, with chapters on indexing food and nutrition, nursing, and general medicine. Three chapters deal with database indexing. Includes are guides to medical reference tools and Internet-based resources. (jv)
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