Thursday, November 18, 2010
Guidelines for Writers
After reviewing a couple of other bibliographies by Bedford St. Martin's, I found that most did not seem to have a set of rules. The length of the submissions varied, but I'm guessing the longest were not more than 1 1/2 pp. double spaced in regular Word format. Some had just a few sentences. Therefore, I suggest that we let the writers complete their annotations up to 1 1/2 pp., which is about 400 words, I think. The entries did not seem to be as much evaluative as they were informative--what the article discussed and the stance, if any, that the author(s) took. We can pare down the entries as needed. What do you think of this?
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Kimme, I agree with all you have said above and I sent you a response to your proposed text for the consultants by email. Here it is below. What do you think? --Barbara
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Some of you have asked about guidelines for the annotations for the various sources you are reading. We suggest that you limit the abstracts to 400 words, with fewer words for journal articles than for books. The length of the original source should partially determine the length of each abstract.
Also, you won't need to write an evaluation of the source. Instead, simply summarize the essay/book and be sure to include authors' stances on topics (or their arguments).
Please refer to the abstracts published in The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing, 3rd edition for models of abstract writing that we consider appropriate for The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Adult Learners.
Thank you for participating in this project. We look forward to reading your abstracts.
On another note, we have received an extension for manuscript submission. Our new deadline is Feb. 1st, 2011. We hope you will be able to submit your abstracts by Dec. 15. If you need more time, please contact us individually.
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