2001
San Antonio
June 9-10
Menger Hotel, San Antonio
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Itinerary
THURSDAY, JUNE 7
9:00 a.m.
- 12 Noon
TAA Council meeting, Part 1
Presider:
TAA president
Agenda:
- Agenda approval
- Minutes from January
- Election results
- 2002 convention
- Minutes.
- Office report
- Executive director report
- Newsletter report
- Authors Coalition: Fund distribution, TAA role
- Committee structure: Constitution
- Membership recruitment, workshops, chapters
- Budget 2001-2202
- TAA office space for future
Members welcome. Agenda at door.
Room: Minuet Room.
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1:30 p.m.
- 5:00 p.m.
TAA Council meeting, Part 2
Presider:
TAA president
Agenda: Continued from morning
Members welcome. Agenda at door.
Room: Minuet Room.
FRIDAY, JUNE 8
8:30 a.m.
- 8:45 a.m.
Welcomes and Introductions
- Peggy Stanfield, TAA president
- Ron Pynn, TAA executive director
- Paul Siegel, convention program chair
Room: Minuet Room
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8:45 a.m.
- 9:25 a.m.
A
Geo-Primer of San Antonio
TAA's
resident geographers will acquaint us with our environs in a way
not always provided by the local tourism bureau. A favorite at previous
conferences, the Christophersons will examine the San Antonio area's
weather and geography, as well as an overview of the historical
geography of the Great Plains.
- John Vivian, moderator
- Rob Christopherson
- Bobbe Christopherson
Room: Minuet Room
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9:30 a.m.
- 10:00 a.m.
Authors
Who Are Teachers: Legal and Ethical Dealings with Employers
An ethicist discusses findings from a recent national "ethics
audit" of mass communication professors. Among issues were using
university resources for writing, sharing credit and income, and
assigning one's own books to classes. The data, he said, "show
some interesting patterns."
- Peggy Stanfield, moderator
- Jay Black, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg
Room: Minuet Room
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10:15 a.m.
- 10:50 a.m.
Break
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10:15
a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Creating
Test Banks
Publishers often call upon textbook authors to compose a test
bank to accompany their texts, yet very few of us have any formal
training in the theory and practice of creating good test items.
This panel is comprised of experts from Harcourt Brace who do
specialize in precisely those skills.
- Paul Siegel, moderator
- Betsy Case, program consultant, Harcourt
- Rosalie Jordan, senior director, large-scale assessments, Harcourt
Room: Minuet Room
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11:00 a.m.
- 11:50 a.m.
Textbook
Censorship: Obvious and Subtle Forms
As one of the largest state markets for K-12 school books,
Texas wields enormous influence nationwide. Consider too that
Texas is home of that notorious pair, Mel and Norma Gabler, and
we can see why this is a topic that has found the right place
and time.
- Pail Seigel, moderator
- John Cole, president, Texas Federation of Teachers
Room: Minuet Room
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12 Noon
- 1:30 p.m.
Special
Lunch Session
The
Pleasures and Woes of Co-Authoring
The advantages and disadvantages, legal and otherwise, of co-authoring
texts. Is it really the best way to ruin a friendship?
- John Vivian, moderator
- Annette Cash (romance linguistics), Georgia State University-Atlanta.
- Stephen Gillen (law), Cincinnati, of Frost Brown & Todd
- KŒren Hess (criminal justice), Normandale Community College
- Russ Swansburg
Location: Nearby restaurant
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1:30 p.m.
- 1:55 p.m.
The
Incredible Whiteness of Textbook Authorship
In many fields the vast majority of textbook authors are white,
with minority authors virtually unrepresented. This panel will
consider the implications of this phenomenon across disciplines.
- William Burke, Trinity University
- Susan Fawcett, (English), Bronx Community College
- Paul Siegel (communication studies), Gallaudet University
Room: Minuet Room
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2:00 p.m.
- 2:25 p.m.
Journal
Authorship: Slave Labor or Worse?
Journal authors are often so grateful to see their ideas accepted
for publication that they too quickly sign away whatever limited
rights they may have had in those ideas. Professor Stone shares
with us the results of his analysis of 50 standard journal contracts.
The results are disturbing, but he offers suggestions for improving
authors' status.
- Peggy Stanfield, moderator
- Gerald Stone (mass communication, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Room: Minuet Room
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2:30 p.m.
- 3:20 p.m.
Crossing
Over: From Academic to Trade Book Writing
Once we have a successful textbook, we may recognize additional
potential in the trade-book market. Our panelists know about writing
and marketing "crossover" texts.
- Karen Morris, moderator
- Michael Rosenberg, Rosenberg Group, Fort Worth, Texas
Room: Minuet Room
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3:30 p.m.
- 4:20 p.m.
Keeping
It Simple Isn't Stupid: Writing for Student Audiences
How to make complex concepts understandable for a diverse readership.
- Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer (journalism),
- Karen Timberlake (chemistry), Los Angeles Valley College
- Paul Siegel (communications), Gallaudet University
Room: Minuet Room
SATURDAY, JUNE 9
8:30 a.m.
- 8:55 a.m.
Textbooks in Cyberspace: Online Coursework
The experience of authors who have used
the web to teach an online course or to provide ancillaries for
textbook adopters and their students.
- Karen Morris, Monroe County Community College
Room: Minuet Room
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9:00 a.m.
- 9:50 a.m.
Dealing
With Writer's Block
Who among us has not had the experience of staring at the computer
screen only to find that nothing is coming out? Our workshop presenter
promises a highly interactive hour, challenging us to discover
for ourselves what environmental variables under our control help
us to write and prevent us from writing. "Be your own therapist!"
will be the hour's watch cry.
- Paul Siegel, moderator
- Drema Albin, post-internship resident, Counseling Unit,University of Texas San Antonio
Room: Minuet Room
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10:00 a.m.
- 10:50 a.m.
Indexing:
Do Your Own or Hire a Pro?
The hidden and vexatious things you may have never thought about
before starting your first index. Professional help is out there,
but it's not free.
- Kay Banning, San Marco, Texas, freelance indexer
- Tara Gray (criminal justice), New Mexico State University
- Paul Siegel (communications), Gallaudet University
Room: Minuet Room
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11:00 a.m.
- 11:50 a.m.
Teaching
From Our Own Texts
How our pedagogy changes when we teach from our own textbooks.
How we develop our textbooks in part based on feedback from our
own students.
- Mary Kay Switzer, moderator
- Michael Barbour
- Rob Christopherson
- Marjorie Ann Fitting
- Roger Kirk
Room: Minuet Room
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12 Noon
- 1:25 p.m.
Lunch: On your own with TAA friends
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1:30 p.m.
- 2:20 p.m.
The
Entrepreneurial Spirit and Publishing
Is your prospectus not getting the attention you think it deserves?
Fret not. Consider how two TAA members created their own highly
successful publishing companies.
- John Vivian, moderator
- Tom Lathrop (Portuguese),University of Delaware)
- Frank Wang, Saxon Publishing, Norman, Oklahoma
Room: Minuet Room
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2:30 p.m.
- 2:55 p.m.
Who
Owns That Copyright?
Many colleges have long-standing policies demanding full or
part ownership of patents created by their employees during their
normal duties., Are similar policies in the offing with respect
to copyright? Professor Allen offers some insights as he reviews
the evolution of policy on his campus.
- Mary Kay Switzer, moderator
- Michael Lennie, authoring lawyer and agent
Room: Minuet Room
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3:00 p.m.
- 3:50 p.m.
Get
It in Writing: Contract Issues
A discussion of the kinds of book contract clauses that authors
should look for and fret over. Panelists will stage a mock contract
negotiation.
- Michael Lennie, attorney and agent, San Diego, California
- Karen Morris, Monroe County Community College
Room: Minuet Room
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5:00 p.m.
- 5:50 p.m.
Sounding
Off to TAA Leadership
Your thoughts and suggestions for the association.
- Peggy Stanfield, president
- Michael Sullivan, vice president and president-elect
- Ron Pynn, executive director
- Other TAA officer, Council members, staff
Room: Minuet Room
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7:00 p.m.
- 11:00 p.m.
Awards
and Recognitions Banquet
Room: Patio Room
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Award Winners
TEXTY
AWARD
(College Computer Science and Engineering):
William D. Callister Jr.:
Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: An Interactive
Text
(Wiley)
TEXTY
AWARD
(College Computer Science and Engineering):
Ida Flynn and Ann McIver McHoes:
Understanding Operating Systems, third edition
(Brooks/Cole)
TEXTY
AWARD
(College Humanities and Social Sciences):
Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya:
Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 11th edition
(Harcourt)
TEXTY
AWARD
(College Communication, Education and Performing and Visual Arts):
Mary Ellen Guffey:
Business Communication: Process and Product, third edition
(Thomson)
TEXTY
AWARD
(College Physical Sciences):
Jay Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko
The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium
(Harcourt)
TEXTY
AWARD
(College Humanities and Social Sciences):
Les Rowntree, Martin Lewis, Marie Price and William Wyckoff:
Diversity Amid Globalization
(Prentice Hall)
TEXTY
AWARD
(El-Hi Computer Science and Engineering):
William R. Pasewark Sr., William R. Pasewark Jr., Carolyn Pasewark
Denny, Scott G. Pasewark, Jan A. Pasewark Stogner, Frank M. Stogner
and Beth Pasewark Wadsworth:
Microsoft Works 2000, Basic, third edition
(South-Western)
TEXTY
AWARD
(College Life Sciences):
Dee U. Silverthorn:
Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach, second edition
(Prentice-Hall)
MCGUFFEY
AWARD
(College Humanities and Social Sciences):
Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya:
Gardener's Art Through the Ages, 11th edition
(Harcourt)
McGUFFEY
AWARD
(College Math and Statistics):
Daniel Solow:
How to Read and Do Proofs, second edition,
(Wiley)
McGUFFEY
AWARD
(Computer science and engineering):
William Stallings:
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, sixth edition,
(Prentice Hall)
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