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From: Donna German <DonnaGerman_at_SylvanDellPublishing.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:44:54 -0500
Because our focus is science & math through (fun-to-read) literature, we fact check and work with experts in the field prior to publication. I could probably write a book about things I've learned through the vetting experience!
Donna German
Editor
Sylvan Dell Publishing 976 Houston Northcutt Blvd., Ste. 3
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
843-971-6722 (off), 877-958-2600 (toll free), 843-216-3804 (fax)
Science and Math through Literature
For more information, please visit our website at www.SylvanDellPublishing.com
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From: Dean Schneider
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:49 PM To: ccbc-net_at_ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject:
Reviewing
On fact checking:
Several times over the years, I have caught errors--from copy editing to factual, minor and major--and been able to report them to my editor who then contacts the publisher, and there has been time for the publisher to make changes in the finished copy. Of course this only works if I have read the advanced reader copy well ahead of schedule (which I tend to do), but it's a way for reviewers and writers to--pun intended--be on the same page in the name of a stronger book. What's distressing is when major problems are caught and there's NOT time to correct them, until subsequent editions. Lots of reviewers have that internal voice while reading a really good book and cheering it on, hoping it finishes as well as it has started. Reviewers love to celebrate the well-crafted books, but it's painful though necessary to comment on major problems with a book, where the story doesn't work as well as it might have. A good reviewer doesn't include negative analyses lightheartedly, though I know there are reviewers out there who too often write with venomous pens (or cantankerous keyboards?).
Dean Schneider
Ensworth school
Nashville, Tennessee
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:44:54 -0500
Because our focus is science & math through (fun-to-read) literature, we fact check and work with experts in the field prior to publication. I could probably write a book about things I've learned through the vetting experience!
Donna German
Editor
Sylvan Dell Publishing 976 Houston Northcutt Blvd., Ste. 3
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
843-971-6722 (off), 877-958-2600 (toll free), 843-216-3804 (fax)
Science and Math through Literature
For more information, please visit our website at www.SylvanDellPublishing.com
Message-----
From: Dean Schneider
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:49 PM To: ccbc-net_at_ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject:
Reviewing
On fact checking:
Several times over the years, I have caught errors--from copy editing to factual, minor and major--and been able to report them to my editor who then contacts the publisher, and there has been time for the publisher to make changes in the finished copy. Of course this only works if I have read the advanced reader copy well ahead of schedule (which I tend to do), but it's a way for reviewers and writers to--pun intended--be on the same page in the name of a stronger book. What's distressing is when major problems are caught and there's NOT time to correct them, until subsequent editions. Lots of reviewers have that internal voice while reading a really good book and cheering it on, hoping it finishes as well as it has started. Reviewers love to celebrate the well-crafted books, but it's painful though necessary to comment on major problems with a book, where the story doesn't work as well as it might have. A good reviewer doesn't include negative analyses lightheartedly, though I know there are reviewers out there who too often write with venomous pens (or cantankerous keyboards?).
Dean Schneider
Ensworth school
Nashville, Tennessee
---Received on Mon 16 Nov 2009 07:44:54 AM CST
