Schedule for Scholarly Publishing

ENC 6319, Scholarly Publishing Schedule

Week

Date

Due Dates

Class Activities

1/13

1. Introduce Syllabus; discuss Style Presentations

2. Managing an Career as an Academic Author, Moxley

3. In-class work: In-class writing: Drafting a writing plan for the next 15 weeks.

1/20

Note: Class is canceled

We will not meet face to face this week. Instead, work on drafts the following three short documents and email them to me by 1/21

1. Analysis of Academic Journals

2. Analysis of Theses/Dissertations

3. Analysis of Conferences or Conference Proposal (Conceptual Draft)

Note: While I want a very solid draft on 1/27, I’ll provide feedback on this so you can revise and resubmit on 2/3.

1/27

Read....Obviously you will need to conduct research/reading to do this week’s exercises...but also read

1. Boice’s Advice for New Faculty Members

· Networking on the Network by Phil Agre. In particular, read:

· Introduction

· Networking: What and Why

· The Basic Steps

· Building a Professional Identity

2. Style: 1-73; Do a few exercises in each chapter that are discussed in the Appendix (These do not need to be turned in)

3. Ck out the following resources:

Inside Higher Education
http://insidehighered.com/careers

Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com

User: 11314800

Password: usfenglish

ADE [MLA Joblist]

http://www.ade.org

User: 3863

Password: usfenglish

1. The 12 Steps: “I am a writer...”

2. Tool Tips:

· My Delicious, http://del.icio.us/

· Securing your own domain!

i. http://godaddy.com

ii. List of Faculty Websites w/ CVs

· Develop a Writing and Research Organizational Scheme

3. Discuss

· Style: 1-73

· Networking on the Network

· Discuss Career Research Planner

4. Student Presentations

· Actions:

· Characters: Adam Breckenridge

5. Round robin review: bring printouts of

· Analysis of Academic Journals

· Analysis of Theses/Dissertations

· Analysis of Conferences or Conference Proposal (Conceptual Draft)

6. Process Writing: Goals for the week

2/3

Due

1. Submit final revisions to Analysis of Academic Journals, Analysis of Theses/Dissertations, and Conferences. Perhaps also include an analysis of books. Resources: Literary Guide to the Market Place, Writer’s Guide, and AAUP lists.

2. Analyze ways academics are “networking.” Check out these sites: Faculty Websites. Identify a couple of people in your field your admire and bring in their URLS.

3. Read: Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? by Malcolm Gladwell

4. "If Not Now, When?" Joe Moxley

Myths

How to Draft and Organize Scholarly Projects

1. 3:00 p.m.: Michael Clune, Publishing the Scholarly Monograph

· Michael Clune received his PhD. from Johns Hopkins in 2006. His first book, American Literature and the Free Market 1945-2000 is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in PMLA, Representations, Criticism, and Contemporary Literature. Professor Clune’s teaching and research interests include American literature, poetry and poetics, aesthetics, and the relation between literature and science. He is currently at work on two books: Writing Against Time, a study of literature, perception, and novelty; and The Memory Disease, a memoir.

2. Review of Last Week’s Goals: Logging and Consequences

3. Tool tip: Websites for Faculty (continued)

4. Tool Tip: Refworks

5. Discuss

· Style: 74-108

6. Student Presentations:

· Cohesion and Coherence: Angela Edward-Mangione

· Emphasis: Kurt Fawver

· Concision: Marisa Iglesias

2/10

Due

· Career Research Planner

1. Volunteers to share a draft of a book review...

2. Strategies for Organizing Work.

3. Clarification of Career Research Planner

4. Discussion of Intros....Conventions for Intros...

5. 4:30 p.m.: Diane Donnelly, A graduate student effort to publish an edited collection.

Dianne Donnelly is the recipient of multiple teaching, scholarship, and writing awards and has published articles and short stories in a number of venues. She is also a frequent presenter at conferences on the subject of creative writing theory and pedagogy and the emergence of creative writing studies. She holds a PhD in English and teaches creative writing at the University of South Florida.

6. Discuss

1. Style: 108-182

7. Book Reviews

8. Student Presentations:

· Shape: Kelly Lavis

2/17

Due

1. Major Book Review draft is due

Read

	Writing with Writers
	How to Write a Book Review
	Steps for Writing a Good Book Review
	Writing Tutorial Services
	Publish don't Perish: Book Reviews

2. Also, please review update conference proposal page (I added some successful conference proposals from some USF lit professors)

1. In-class Writing

· How many pages have you written thus far—now that 6 weeks have passed?

· What concrete steps have you taken this week to help you achieve your writing goals?

· What are you learning about yourself as a writer or researcher?

· In these past six weeks, have you successfully played the believing game? If so, what steps did you take to achieve this? If not, what obstacles are slowing you progress?

· What would you like to achieve next week?

2. Discuss

· Book Reviews/Readings

3. Discuss Katherine McGee’s book review draft

4.        Jay Hoppler Visit.....On being a writer....

Jay Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1970 and he has earned degrees from New York University, The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in numerous magazines and journals including The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review and The New Yorker.

His book of poems, Green Squall (Yale University Press, 2006) was chosen by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Green Squall also received the 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, a 2006 Florida Book Award [Silver Medal in the Poetry Category], a 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award [Bronze Medal in the Poetry Category] and a 2007 National “Best Books” Award from USA Book News. He also has been the recipient of a Marfa Residency Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation and a Whiting Writers' Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.

The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder-for-Hire, his first book, was published in the United States and Europe by The Overlook Press and Canongate Books in 1996. His next book, The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poets, will be published by Yale University Press in 2010.

5. Student Presentations:

1. Motivating Coherence: Katherine McGee

2/24

Due

1. Complete a draft of a Document Planner for Major Project

2. Please email to me your .ppt presentations for the style book.

Read

· The Ethics of Academic Book Reviewing

· How to Talk about Works of Staggering Genius

· How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities

Skim

· Skim Principles of Effective Research

· Skim Tomorrow’s Professor of Essays of interest to you

1. 3:05: Discenza, Nicole

Nicole Guenther Discenza's research focuses primarily on Old English and Latin texts. Her book The King's English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius was published by SUNY Press in 2005. She has published several articles and has two more forthcoming on the Alfredian translation program. Her current book project examines Anglo-Saxon geography and cosmology: how the early English perceived the universe, the world, and their place in it.

2. Sharing of Document Planners for Major Project

3. Review of Book Reviews

· Adam, Jeff?

4. Student Presentations

· Global Coherence: Katherine Obrien

3/3

Due

1. Revisions to Book Review

2. Log for first 8 weeks.

Read

· Getting What You Paid For

· Editing Strategies

· How to Submit and Market Your Work

· How to Attack Manuscripts Like an Editor or Reviewer

· How to Edit Documents Like a Copy Editor

· Rotten Rejections

1. Round Robin: Document Planners for Major Project

2. Small group work: Editing of Book Reviews

3. 4:45 p.m, Sara Deats

Sara Munson Deats, Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida, is former President of the Marlowe Society of American and has published approximately 45 essays on Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the early modern drama generally in referred journals and anthologies. In addition, Professor Deats has published ten books. These include a feminist study of Marlowe’s plays entitled Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (1996), for which she received the Roma Gill Award for Outstanding Contribution to Marlowe scholarship. She has also edited a collection of essays on Antony and Cleopatra for Routledge Press (2005) and has edited with Robert Logan two collections of essays on Christopher Marlowe, entitled: Marlowe’s Empery: Expanding His Critical Context (2002) and, most recently, Placing Christopher Marlowe’s Plays: Fresh Critical Contexts (2008). In addition, Professor Deats has co-edited with Lagretta Lenker five books relating literature to social issues. Professor Deats has recently published her tenth book, a Critical Guide to Doctor Faustus, for Continuum Press.

4. Student Presentations

· Punctuation: Jeffrey Spicer

· Elegance by Kathleen Martin (make up)

· The Ethics of Style by Narisa Steinberg

3/10

Spring Break

3/17

Due

1. Draft of major project

2. 50% of Logging/Process Grade: Bring to class copies of all work completed thus far!

1. Tool Tip

· What progress have you made on Google Docs, Google Alerts, Google Sites, Word’s Password Feature, Ning, a blog site for networking and tracking your writing and recording your reading/ideas, registering your own domain and hosting your work there, MyDelicious or some other social bookmarking site, Refworks or some other bibliography tool.

· Social Bookmarking

· Use Subscriptions

· Setting up a Network

2. Book reviews—where do we stand? What needs to be done before you submit it.

3. Discussion of Spring Break Activities

4. Discussion of Schedule

· Would you rather meet individually with me to discuss my comments

· Would it be more useful to hold class on 4/28 rather than meet individually with me. I mean, you could still meet with me but I’m wondering now if we should still have class as this would give you time to do a final small-group peer review on your major workshop project and whatever other texts you want feedback on.

5. Writing Workshop #1: Kelly Lavis

6. Writing Workshop #2: Kathleen Martin

7. As time permits, small group work on draft of major project while Moxley discusses logs individually w/ students.

3/24

Due

1. Introduction to major project

· Read “But the Reviewers Are Making Different Criticisms of My Paper.”

2. Experiment with tools to facilitate your writing

3. Keep writing every day/believing.

· Tool Tip

o What progress have you made on Google Docs....

o Using Twitter for Research and Networking

o RSS and Social Bookmarking Tools

§ Use RSS to feed in social bookmarks to your blog/website/facebook account

o PageFlakes

o Folders in Google Mail or Outlook

o Setting a links list to track your projects Wikis

· Discuss “But the Reviewers Are Making Different Criticisms of My Paper.”

· Presentation: Networking and Marketing Your Work

· Writing Workshop #3: Jeff Spicer

· Writing Workshop #5: Kurt Fawver

3/31

Due

· Major Partial Draft

· Tool Tip

· Notes on Academic CVs

· Writing Workshop 6: Marisa Iglesias

· Writing Workshop 7: Katherine Obrien

4/7

Due

1. Major Complete Draft: Final Project

View

· Skip the intro and play Academic Publishing Crisis, Part 1 for a nice historical review of scholarly presses

· Google on the Book

Read

· From the President: Beyond the Dissertation Monograph

· IHE article on USP

IHE article on MUP

· Discuss the future of scholarly publishing

· Who Pays? If library subscription dies?

· Flat fee didn’t work: http://www.biomedcentral.com/ Now want $ per/article plus $10K annual fee/supporting member

· Capital

· Software

· Archiving

· Writing Workshop 8: Katherine McGee

· Writing Workshop 9: Adam Breckenridge

· In small groups, if time permits, share complete draft of final project

4/14

· Put yourself on the spot. Sign up to do something you wouldn’t normally do--that will advance your academic goals. Here is a somewhat dated essay—the essay that inspired this request: http://www.jstor.org/stable/357513

· Bring a draft of your research planner

· Report on What You Did—How you put yourself on the spot.

· Tool Tip

· Create a Task List at Google

· Favorite Academic Tools

· Dropbox

· Writing Workshop 10: Angela Eward-Mangione

· Writing Workshop 11: Narisa Steinburg

· Workshop Career Research Plans

4/21

Due

1. Final Draft: Final Project

2. Revised Career Research Plan

· Review

· Regarding your scholarly publishing career, what important insights did you have this semester?

· What is your biggest obstacle to success?

· Letter to yourself

· In 30 days, what writing goals will you have achieved? What rewards will give to yourself for achieving these.

· Small Group Work

· Major Projects

· Workshop Career Research Plans

· Bring your log/process writing – or just remind me of the url – plus printouts of your work, demonstrating you wrote 250 new words every day, well, at least five days/week.

4/28

· Final Edits to Major Projects

· Final Edits to Career Research Plans

· If I didn’t get to you last week, please bring your log/process writing – or just remind me of the url – plus printouts of your work, demonstrating you wrote 250 new words every day, well, at least five days/week.