Unit 5 Software Applications Revision: Research and Publishing Industry

Unit 5 Software applications revision: Research and Publishing Industry
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Brainstorming Have you ever needed to follow any kind of rules to present an assignment? Have you ever created your own publication? Do you think it could be helpful to know the kind of software used by most Publishing groups to elaborate their own books? Have you ever tried to create your own e-book? Have you ever thought about publishing something in the web taking into account a minimum of accessibility?
Unit 5 Software applications revision: Research and Publishing Industry Introduction

MLA 7th Edition website: http://www.mlahandbook.org/fr agment/public_index;jsessionid= 9F2F7469848D22125EC060699D EEC491
In the last unit we have been studying how to plan our research work and what kind of software we will need to have it installed depending on the methodology chosen. We will finish this course by learning how to format an academic paper according to some standards and give the first steps towards the publishing industry. By the end of this unit, you will find very basic rules to follow an order to elaborate a work. Learning results By the end of this unit: - you will be able to present a paper or assignment as required by a possible editor or reviewer. - you will know the tools to create an academic journal or a magazine. - you will know some of the most important applications to create a printed or electronic book. Contents a) Formatting your paper We find two main ways to format any field of Humanity paper: MLA and APA, apart from the many other versions that you could find for any publication. MLA stands for Modern Languages Association. This organization publishes a book of styles to quote within the text, created bibliographies and format each paper so that most of them could follow a standardized appearance. Most of the publication related to Literature and Linguistics usually asks to follow the rules contained in the last edition of MLA Handbook for Writers and Research papers. In it, you will find recommendations dealing with: font size and type for text and quotes, margins, spacing, title, etc. Here you have an example of the first page:
Illustration taken from http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/format.shtml)
You will find all the measures written in inches. Remember that inch is 2.45 centimeters. Apart from this, the MLA Book of Style and other related handbooks, you will find information about how to include graphics and illustrations to your work, when to use capital letters, when to highlight a word, a revision of the punctuation rules. Through this link https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/, you will find a step to step guide on how to format your paper with the help of word processor. On the contrary, if you intend to submit a paper to any other organization closer to applied linguistics or didactics, you will probably need to follow APA (American Psychological Association) Book of style. This organization is much more open to spread and deliver its book of style freely, there is even a video tutorial about the basic points to know about how to write following APA rules, plus a second tutorial that describes the novelties for the sixth edition: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/index.aspx If you visit this other link, you will learn how to prepare your word processor to begin to write with APA standard: http://www.pasadena.edu/hstutoringlab/apa/paperformat.cfm The following illustration taken from the same link shows the appearance of the first page of a sample paper.
As mentioned before, apart from APA and MLA, there are many other adapted versions created for scientific journals that you need to follow in order to submit your work. Here you can find some example of well-known publications with their own guidelines: Applied Linguistics: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/applij/for_authors/index.html Journal of Pragmatics http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505593/authorin structions (Based on APA)
Unit 5 Software applications revision: Research and Publishing Industry Shakespeare Quarterly http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=1072 (based on Chicago Book of Style) http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
This is an example of Stack with Delicious http://www.delicious.com/stacks /view/FFE258 :
Activity.5.1. APA vs. MLA Try to locate some video-tutorials and another sort of information related to APA and MLA, take your own notes and try to find some difference among both styles. Use this chart (wiki) to compare them in a better way. b) Creating a Journal/magazine If Guttenberg meant a great change in the history of book publications, Internet has brought the chance of publishing in a rather easy way. Nowadays, you could have your own newspaper for free or even set up a scientific journal. Tools have been divided in two blocks for these reasons: General matters publications (Newspapers, Magazines, etc) o Most of them have emerged as the adaptation of RSS aggregators to the new era where information flies from one network to the other. This has provoked piles of spam which prevent us from reading what we need to read. Three tools have been selected in this occasion to illustrate this point: Delicious Stacks
o If you already have a Delicious account, you could create a stack just by adding your selected tags to a front cover. Depending on the meta-information coming from each imported link, you could obtain a nicer or more complex appearance. Each link will show the number of savings it has, notes that you may have in your delicious account, comments or if have marked it as favorite. Apart from that, you can also invite other contributors to add more links.
Unit 5 Software applications revision: Research and Publishing Industry Paper.li
Paper.li is a content curation service. It enables people to publish newspapers based on topics they like and treat their readers to fresh news, daily. We believe that people (and not machines) are the ones qualified to curate the content that matters most. We also think that these same people can greatly help their own communities to find their way through this massive content world we live in. Were here to help! You could access either from a Twitter/Facebook account or a new paper.li account. You can add a discussion forum, editors note as well as customize it appearance. This is an example of one of them about linguistics: http://paper.li/BCain/1323367003 You can see here the one created for this course:
La Univerdiad de Antioqua (Comlombia) offers freely and online a course to learn to use Open Journal System, based on PKP: http://aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.c o/lms/moodle/course/view.php?i d=485
The news that you could see displayed is the result of collecting all the tweets from your twitter account. They are shown classified by topics. Scoop.it It is a very similar tool to Paper.li, that was launched last year in two modalities: free or paid by using either a Facebook account or by creating a new Scoop account. It works in a similar way than Twitter, by re-scooping news that you may consider of interest for you and your subscriber or people that could read you, although you could write your own articles as well. They presume to be the largest and most connected curation publishing platform for professionals. The following screenshot shows one dealing with ICT applied to Humanities.
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Creating online Magazines from scratch is perhaps a more difficult task to do if we have a look at the available tools. These are conceived for more professional aims and are more expensive. Here you are some examples: E-page Creator1 It is a tool to create unlimited digital publications from PDF, SWF and image files. You may have different options depending on the price you have paid. The magazine shown below has the following features: Share, Print, Save as PDF, Background Color, Save as PDFand Thumbnail View.
3DIssue It is professional proprietary software used by most powerful companies in the world to create Flash & HTML5 magazines and ebooks . In the same way as e-page creator, it is able to adapt its final product to be read by tablets, smartphone and other mobile devices among others. As usual, you could download a demo to test it. You will find a tutorial here about how it works. It create e-books as well: http://www.3dissue.com/#
http://www.epagecreator.net/index.html
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3D issue sample created by Google company
It has been used by many companies to present their products. Activity 5.2. Free tools to create magazines Try to find in the internet some tool similar to the ones previously mentioned to create on-line publications for free. Share your discoveries and findings in the forum. Think about publishing a blog article reviewing that tool (It can be one of the ones included in this unit). b) Academic /Scientific journals They are not so accessible to the big public as the previous examples. They are meant for professional associations, journals with a minimum of quality. The following three are the most used by the scientific community: Public Knowledge Project (PKP)3 It is an open source tool used by many Public Libraries, universities, ministries and other relevant institutions all around the world. Here you are some examples of online open journals using this tool for the management of their publication:
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http://www.3dissue.com/magazine-samples/google/ http://pkp.sfu.ca/
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics & Literature http://www.ijalel.org/ Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal http://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/ojs/index.php/calj/index International Journal of Language Studies in Language Learning http://www.consortiacademia.org/index.php/ijrsll Ikala http://aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.co/revistas/index.php/ikala (Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura) Revue4 It is an open source platform to host collections of books and scientific ejournals that belong to Open Edition along with Calenda (to add and receive alerts about academic and scientific events in French) and Hypotheses (for academic blogs in Spanish French and German language). Here you have are some examples related to English Studies: Review du Linguistique et de Didactique des Langues http://lidil.revues.org/ Apprentissage des langues et systmes d'information et de communication http://alsic.revues.org/ Acquisition et dinteraction en langue trangre http://aile.revues.org/ Corpus http://corpus.revues.org/ Apart from the tool and platform mentioned we could find other not so wellknown resources to create journals here: http://library.queensu.ca/webir/planning/e-journal_publishing_support.htm
http://www.openedition.org/8864
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Activity. 5.3. More serious publications Choose any of the three alternatives described here to create your own publication, in the case that you would be asked to create a publication like this for your institution. Explain your reasons for having chosen one or another. Share your opinion with other students in the forum for unit 5. c) Creating a book/ e-book Tools to create ebooks are similar or even the same to create emagazines. There are some platforms like Lulu5, which even help you to send the book edited by yourself. Other tools, such as Calibre, simply convert a pdf file into an e-book format6. Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. To finish, we will mention two basic proprietary software to edit and generate printed books, ebooks any other kind of publication as well: Quark7 It is one leading applications in the publishing industry to create any kind of books in its different formats (printed and online versions). Some of its features are the following:
Books feature lets you manage chapters, users, and printing Mastering pages by reducing repetitive tasks by managing common elements Automatic page numbering lets you create automatic indexes and tables of contents Job Jackets provide continuity across documents, including styles, output options, page sizes, and more Advanced design tools provide limitless options for page layout Fine typography tools such as H&Js, hanging characters, and drop caps optimize text
The image below shows the options offered by Quark to help you in the process of editing any work:
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http://www.lulu.com/gb/ http://calibre-ebook.com/ 7 http://www.quark.com/
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Apart from all this you can add other extensions to work with images and other elements of your publication. Last version allows you to import a PDF file to edit it later with Quark and create publications to be read in mobile devices. Adobe InDesign8 It is a solution offered by Adobe suite very similar to the already mentioned QuarkXpress but it has been thought to produce material for electronic devices. Wikipedia offers a very complete article on the evolution of this program9. Its appearance is very similar to other applications of the same suite:
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http://www.adobe.com/es/products/indesign.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_InDesign
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Activity. 5.4. Working as a professional Try any of the demos offered by these companies. Comment in the forum your experience of being an editor for some days...
d. New ways of edition & publication Social Networks and their inherent power to spread to support or forget any element introduced in these environments, have provoked the emerging of new ways or promoting completely unknown authors and their works. This is the case of two products: Wattpad
It is a Canadian invention to read books in a social network created for this aim. Nowadays, its platform has been translated into different languages although most of its books are written in English. Wattpad is the world's largest community for discovering and sharing stories. It's a new form of entertainment connecting readers and writers through storytelling, and best of all, it's entirely free. With thousands of new stories added every day, an incredibly active community of readers, and the ability to read on your
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computer, phone, or tablet, Wattpad is the only place that offers a truly social, and entirely mobile reading experience.
You can logging Wattpad using your Facebook account or creating a completely new just for that. Next Chap
It is a really new proposal to give the new authors the opportunity to publish their works. It is called Next Chap, because they only need to write and submit to be voted one single chapter in order to go on showing the rest if what is being shown there likes or not.
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In the same as other registers, you can use your Facebook or Twitter profile to log in. Activity 5.5. Publishing in social networks Register WattPadd and NextChap and try to find advantages and disadvantages to publish and edit using both systems.
Internet accessibility and mobility Accessibility could be described in two ways:
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Apples commitment to accesibiblity: http://www.apple.com/accessibil ity/
An online document or tool is accessible when it can be easily understood by everyone, regardless of what browser or adaptive equipment he or she is using. any document or tool can be accessed by any user regardless of the device (e.g. visual browser, screen reader, mobile device) he or she is using. The amount of information spread through the web is growing exponentially day by day. There are even some documents that have opted for being published just in its online version. This obliges to the official organizations to count with a minimum of accessibility in the websites they create. There are different levels of accessibility: Read the following website create to navigate on the BBC pages: http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/ Apple made a compromise with accessibility. That could be one of the main reasons not to show Flash websites, since this application is not easily convertible to voice with the program people with view disabilities frequently use, called Jaws10. To know if a website would pass the basic accessibility rules visit the following website http://www.tawdis.net/. Just by typing the url. You could also test mobile sites. But apart from accessible, a website must be useful, in order to locate information quickly and in an ordered way. Read the following information to know more about this topic: http://www.usability.gov/ Usability is described by the ISO as "The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use." Activity 5.5 Try to find information related to accessibility and the use of mobile devices. Share your findings in the forum. To know more...
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http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-page.asp
Unit 5 Software applications revision: Research and Publishing Industry Web Accessibility Inciative http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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Accessibility and Usability at Penn State http://accessibility.psu.edu/ (It included a free tutorial on the two matters) ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing ACM New York, NY, USA table of contents ISSN:1558-2337 EISSN:1558-1187 http://dl.acm.org.ezproxy.uned.es/citation.cfm?id=J956&CFID=102321236&CFT OKEN=56273212 (You could read the content of this journal once logged in Campus UNED) Final work You will find all the details in the web. Remember that you have fixed dates to submit it. Final questions Do you find this unit difficult? Useful? What do you think about the tool to create your own publication? Have you tried any of them? Do you think you will be able to try to take into account accessibility and usability standards in your professional life?
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