Books written by William Germano
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From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition
... A Survival Guide susan m. bielstein The Craft of Translation john biguenet and rainer schulte, editors The CraftofResearch wayne c. booth, gregory g. colomb, and joseph m. williams The Dramatic Writer's Companion will dunne Glossary ...
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The Tales of Hoffmann
Television Opera: The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2003). Beecham, Sir Thomas. A Mingled Chime (London: Hutchinson, 1943). Calico, Joy H. Brecht at the Opera (Berkeley: University of ...
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Eye Chart
The eye chart—essential diagnostic tool, template, sign, toy—is a monument to un-reading and a guide to the absurdities of modern life.
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On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts
The most famous book on writing well may be Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, which William Strunk Jr. first devised a century ago.9 You'll already know Professor Strunk's “no useless words” mantra. But the question is always, ...
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Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books, Third Edition
... 138 electronic storage and retrieval, 137–38 electronic texts, 213; searching in, 214–16, 227 Elements of Style (Strunk and White), 16 e-mail, 87–88, 126, 194; common mistakes with, 75; confirmation, 118; discussion groups, 237; ...
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Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything
Any history of education with a long view will reflect on how standard texts—from Cicero, as read in the early modern period, to the McGuffey Readers of nineteenth- century America— have shaped not only what people learned but the idea ...
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Eye Chart
enough, actually a kind of seed, but it's one which, when placed in the eye, was once believed to bring about sympathetic magic and remove foreign material from the body. Diagnostic or playful, clinical or personal, the eye chart ...
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Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything
But how do we get there? How will our students get there? And where is there? This book by William Germano and Kit Nicholls is a field guide to, and collegial chat concerning, this fundamental but often overlooked document.
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Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything
It's never enough, then, for a syllabus to be, as one often hears, “freshened up” for another semester. The word syllabus itself has a curious history. The Oxford English Dictionary helps us see syllabus as not just a word but a scribal ...
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On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts
A professor, author, and veteran of the book industry, Germano knows what editors want and what writers need to know: Revising is not just correcting typos. Revising is about listening and seeing again.
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From Dissertation to Book
But a dissertation is written for a committee and a book for the larger world. William Germano's From Dissertation to Book is the essential guide for academic writers who want to revise a doctoral thesis for publication.
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The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making.
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Getting It Published, Third Edition: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books
Professional advice simply does not get any savvier than this pitch-perfect manual on how to think like a publisher.”—Diana Fuss, Princeton University
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From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition
Now revised and updated to reflect the evolution of scholarly publishing, this edition includes a new chapter arguing that the future of academic writing is in the hands of young scholars who must create work that meets the broader ...