publishing

I recently had the opportunity to ask Pennylane Shen, a graduate student at NYU who published a paper in the Spring 2009 gnovis journal, about her experiences publishing as a graduate student. While this was not Pennylane’s first time publishing, it was her first experience with peer review.  Read More »

Today, gnovis hosted a session entitled "Why We Publish, and Why You Should Too!" from 3-4pm in Car Barn 311. Joining us was a well-published panel of professors from CCT: Professors Jeanine Turner, Michael Coventry, Matthew Tinkcom, and David Ribes. The faculty joined the gnovis staff and 30 students to discuss why they publish (and why we should, too!). Below are some highlights of the evening's panel.  Read More »

Ashley recently posted about her self-publication of her thesis using Lulu's print-on-demand service, and I wanted to follow up with my own thoughts on this process. While Ashley's post emphasized the nostalgic and sentimental motives for self-publishing, I approached my own project from a much different perspectice: career development, personal branding and, of course, copyright.  Read More »

I wanted to look at my Mom and say, "hey look, I wrote a book."  Sadly, Georgetown no longer accepts paper thesis submissions which makes all kinds of sense for the reasons you don't need me to go into.  If you've paid attention at all to debates about the future of media you know paper is out and electronic is in (cheaper, better for the forests, etc etc etc).  Read More »