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Nwu: The National Writers Union
This is the homesite for the National Writers Union, an organization for freelance writers. Contains an amazing amount of useful material, especially for aspiring writers, journalists, or storytellers.
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The American Amateur Press Association
The American Amateur Press Association is a non-profit organization of and for amateur journalists, writers, editors, printers, and publishers. This is a good meeting place for sharing experiences.
Harold D. Underdown
Getting Out of the Art File: Tips for Book Illustrators
An excellent resource for illustrators to format their work in order to get the attention of a publisher. Intended for children's literature, but may also apply to other genres.
Harold D. Underdown
An Agent's Advice on Selling/ Publishing Your Artwork
An artist's representative presents basic steps and tips to selling or publishing your artwork as illustrations for books. Written primarily for children's literature, but may also apply to other genres as well.
Harold D. Underdown
Publishing: The Artist/ Agent Team
Some interesting and helpful advice for illustrators who are looking to get published. Discusses the pros and cons of getting an agent (artist's representative) and some practical advice concerning getting your artistic work published.
Harold D. Underdown
Publishing for Illustrators: Portfolio Portent
An informational resource concerning what to include in a portfolio for publication submission. Is geared toward illustrators, but many of the concepts in this article can also be applied to writers.
Harold D. Underdown
Publishing: What's in a Deadline?
An informational article that explores the many issues surrounding meeting deadlines for publication. Gives practical advice as well as information for potential submissions for publication.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Teacher Guide to Publishing and Book Making
With the proper computer equipment and desktop publishing software students can create professional level newsletters, brochures and advertising documents. This site provides lesson plans and software tutorials for bringing desktop...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing and Publishing Book Reviews
This lesson plan outlines classroom methods to teach both how to evaluate and how to write book reviews. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Real Survival Skills
Learn about process analysis, writing procedurals texts, the steps of the writing process, and cause and effect in this unit. Also, examine patterns of organization in writing. A handy chart shows common organizational patterns which...
Education.com
Education.com: W.4.6 Worksheets: Use Technology to Produce and Publish Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 6 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.6: With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Publishing Time
In this lesson, learners will experience different types of publishing in order to strengthen their motivation and cultivate pride in their work. After utilizing the writing process, students will type out their writing on a computer....
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Publish a Final Product
Create a final draft of a presentation. Publish the final product to express your understanding of a chosen topic.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Formatting Your Paper
This site gives general formatting guidelines applicable to most papers.
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National Music Publishers Association
NMPA is dedicated to the protection of music copyright across all media. It also distributes information to its members.
Harold D. Underdown
The End of the Line: Why Agent Relationships Fail
An article concerning the relationships between artists and agents. Discusses why many agent relationships fail, but can be used as a good resource for researching agent relationships for publishing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Process Intro
[Free Registration/Login Required] Subtitled, You are what you eat, this flipchart correlates the steps in the writing process to the steps involved in baking a cake emphasizing the importance of not leaving anything out. You may even...
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John E. Stith: Manuscript Format
Science fiction author John E. Stith's guidelines for manuscript format, plus some warnings about common errors. This describes the standard format used to send material to a publisher and may not match what your teacher requires.
Education.com
Education.com: W.1.6 Lesson Plans
[Free Registration/Login Required] These lesson plans can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of using a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing.