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How was society changed by the shift from an oral culture to a print culture? Discuss the differences in how people perceived the world. |
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Has the mass marketing of paperbacks made people more literate in general? Discuss the most popular genres of paperbacks, and what they indicate about the public's taste in reading. |
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Discuss the positive and negative effects of conglomeration in the publishing industry. |
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According to the text, the content of many elementary and secondary school textbooks in the U.S. is often altered according to the tastes of the school boards of Texas and California, because they are such large consumers. Some conservative school boards have even managed to expunge the idea of evolution from science texts. Could this type of control of textbooks by a few school boards be detrimental to the education of the American public? |
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Describe the roles and duties of: acquisition editors, developmental editors, and copy editors. |
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