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an obvious nonfiction book goof - THIS is why research is important!
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From: Meghan McCarthy <meghanmccarthy007_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:37:52 -0700 (PDT)
On the topic of researching nonfiction -- I was reading some children's books yesterday in preparation for my own and I read one that listed Edison as inventing the light bulb. Eeek! This is such an easy thing to check I could not believe the book listed the information as such. THIS is why I feel the need to write another book on the matter, but that's another topic. And this book was published by a retail bookstore publisher (make of this what you will). Really though, this is scary when a book gets something so simple like that so wrong!
meghan
Received on Wed 20 Oct 2010 09:37:52 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:37:52 -0700 (PDT)
On the topic of researching nonfiction -- I was reading some children's books yesterday in preparation for my own and I read one that listed Edison as inventing the light bulb. Eeek! This is such an easy thing to check I could not believe the book listed the information as such. THIS is why I feel the need to write another book on the matter, but that's another topic. And this book was published by a retail bookstore publisher (make of this what you will). Really though, this is scary when a book gets something so simple like that so wrong!
meghan
Received on Wed 20 Oct 2010 09:37:52 AM CDT
