Oh--You as a validator can totally rewrite the short
synopsis. Lots of times the scanner doesn't even write
one--or had written a short synopsis without actually
having read the book, and I've found it's totally
misleading. If the short synopsis doesn't briefly
describe the booi or isn't well-written (in my
opinion) I rewrite it--and only occasionally have I
found one that is good. More often there isn't any.
Cindy
--- siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Cindy,
I have seen "see long synopsis" in several synopses
in books from the
collection. Actually, I was not referring to the
times when I write a
synopsis, but rather when the submitter has written
it, I find it to be too
long and know Gustavo will kick it back, and try to
remove part of it. I
seem to have trouble with the edit field. I guess
your suggestions would
still apply though.
Thanks,
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:44 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted
Sue,
I don't know if this is much help; what I do is just
read what i've written, delete what I think I can
without losing the idea, and try again. I tend to be
wordy, as you must realize from my posts, so
sometimes
I have to cut and try to submit two or three times
before my upload is accepted.
I did see that someone recently just put in the
short
synopsis space "See long synopsis." smile
Cindy
--- siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> difficult to do on the site when I upload a book
> with this problem. I am
> speaking of when I am ready to approve the book
> after validating it.
>
> I hope this message is clear, as you seem to say
> most of my messages are
> unclear or do not give enough info. Smile.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sue S.
>
> Gerald,
>
> Can you give us some pointers on how to shorten a
> synopsis when we
> vallidate? For example, how to remove those
> reviewer quotations? I find
> this very
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerald Hovas
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:13 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted
>
>
> Evan,
>
>
>
> You're correct. We're not supposed to use
> quotations from reviewers in the
> synopsis. I believe the reason is related to
> copyright issues.
>
>
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> From: Evan Reese [mailto:mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:28 PM
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted
>
>
>
> Is this a legal problem? I was under the
impression
> that it was not
> permitted to use quotations of this sort in the
long
> synopsis.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: duane iverson
>
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:22 PM
>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Just Submitted
>
>
>
> The Professors, the 101 most dangerous Academics
> in America by David
> Horowitz.
>
> Below are the lauditory reviews found in the
> fronnt of the book. I cut
> and paisted some of these to make my long
synopsis.
>
> RAISE FOR
>
> THE PROFESSORS
>
> "Beware the unhinged, leftist academic when
David
> Horowitz hits campus.
> This book is a thoroughly enjoyable and useful
guide
> to the worst of the
> worst in the hallowed halls of academia."
>
> -Laura Ingraham, host of The Laura Ingraham Show
> and author of the New
> York Times bestseller Shut Up & Sing
>
> "There are those who would politicize the
> university classroom and
> transform it into an advocacy center for narrow
and
> extreme views. If we
> allow that to continue, we will undermine
America's
> ability to lead in the
> century ahead. David Horowitz is sounding a
clarion
> call... Americans should
> listen."
>
> -Representative Jerry Lewis chairman of the
House
> Appropriations Committee
>
> "This is the story of almost any campus in
> America. Parents know college
> professors 'tend to be liberal' but they don't
> realize how truly anti-middle
> class and anti-American they can be."
>
> -Congressman Jack Kingston Sponsor of the
> congressional resolution for an
> Academic Bill of Rights
>
> "The Professors is a comprehensive and
persuasive
> survey of the
> contemporary university. It demonstrates beyond
> reasonable doubt that
> political extremists like Professor Ward Churchill
> are a common and
> influential presence on college and university
> faculties in the United
> States. David Horowitz's book should be read by
> every college administrator
> and every scholar who is concerned about the abuse
> of university classrooms
> and the debasement of academic standards by
faculty
> activists."
>
> -Candace de Russy Trustee, State University of
New
> York
>
> "This book is a must-read for anyone who cares
> about free speech in higher
> education. Horowitz does a masterful job of
proving
> how partisan activists
> are masquerading as professional educators, and
> documenting the damage they
> are doing to the American academy."
>
> -State representative Gibson C. Armstrong Author
> of Pennsylvania's
> Academic Freedom Resolution
>
> 1
>
> "Articulate and fearless, David Horowitz tracks
> the anti-American
> attitudes and professorial abuses of students that
> have metastasized
> throughout academia. The Professors is a
must-read,
> not only for educators
> and governmental policy makers-but for every
parent
> with high school or
> college-age children."
>
> -State senator Bill Morrow Sponsor of a
California
> Academic Bill of Rights
>
> "David Horowitz has single-handedly done more
than
> anyone I know to throw
> light on the political abuse of our college and
> university classrooms by
> activist professors who have been enabled to do so
> because of the incestuous
> self-selection process for faculty recruitment and
> tenure. The Professors
> throws a harrowing light on the decline of
> professional standards in our
> schools and the efforts by faculty with political
> agendas to use their
> classrooms for indoctrination rather than
> education."
>
> -State representative Dennis K. Baxley
>
> chair of the Education Council of the Florida
> legislature
>
> and chief sponsor of Florida's Academic Bill of
> Rights
>
> "Horowitz's book The Professors is a must read
for
> all parents planning on
> a quality education for their children."
>
> -State senator Larry A. Mumper Sponsor of
academic
> freedom legislation in
> Ohio
>
> "With documentation that will be hard to refute,
> David Horowitz describes
> the betrayal of our young people by professors who
> are defiantly unethical
> and contemptuous of academic standards. It is a
form
> of educational
> malpractice. We learn that Ward Churchill, the
shame
> of Colorado's
> university system, has his counterparts on
campuses
> across the nation."
>
> -John Andrews, former president of the Colorado
> Senate and sponsor of
> Colorado legislation to implement an Academic Bill
> of Rights
>
> "Academics on the Left like to pat themselves on
> the back for daring to
> 'speak truth to power.' David Horowitz's The
> Professors speaks some
> uncomfortable truths to them-to those who run
> American higher education
> today. They will hate this scathing critique, but
> will be hard- pressed to
> answer his charges."
>
> -Professors Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom
Harvard
> University
>
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