Marginalia — research
The Reading List: recommendations from the On Reading panel session
UWA Publishing Ande Roestenburg Claire Jones reading research Ross Gibson Steve Heath the reading process Will Yeoman
Words by UWA Publishing Publishing Officer, Charlotte Guest
At the On Reading panel session, which took place as part of the 2015 WINTERarts Festival, we delved into the subject of reading habits and cognition. The panel was designed as an open forum for exchanging provocations to get us thinking about the ways in which reading practices may shape comprehension and communication. What eventuated was an expansive set of ruminations about where we may be taking reading and where reading may be taking us.
From publisher to writer: some answers
UWA Publishing advice for writers publishing publishing advice reading research
Words by Charlotte Guest, Publishing Officer at UWA Publishing
Every week, we receive calls and emails asking a particular set of questions that revolve around one central issue: how does a first time writer get published?
Time constraints mean that we cannot always answer these questions as fully as we’d like, so to satisfy both interlocutors (the asker and the asked) I’d like to dedicate this post to answering the most commonly asked questions, as well as providing some tips to aid your submission before it even gets read.
Opening the archives: on access to information and resources
UWA Publishing archives research Ross Gibson The Summer Exercises
Words by Charlotte Guest, Publishing Officer at UWA Publishing
For those whose Twitter, Instagram and Facebook streams are usually populated with book-related content, you may have been surprised to see an inordinate amount of cake on your screens today. That would be because today is National Cooking for Copyright day, a campaign run by Freedom of Access to Information and Resources (FAIR).