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Advice on rewriting PhD dissertations into books; advice on sending manuscripts to scholarly publishers; how copyediting works; what to expect in the production process; explain what to do if a university press rejects your manuscript. I do NOT assess manuscripts
Experience in the area
10 years publishing experience at Addison Wesley Longman, and Cambridge University Press Australia and the United Kingdom
Education/Credentials
Bachelor of Music; Master of Arts; PhD is almost finished! I also teach in editing and publishing courses at university level, both undergraduate and graduate
Average Ratings
Recent Reviews from Users
K = Knowledgeability C = Clarity of Response T = Timeliness P = Politeness| User | Date | K | C | T | P | Comments |
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| Mabel | 05/15/09 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 9 | |
| sean | 05/13/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Peter O'Lalor | 03/11/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Mr. Watt's attention to detail and his ..... |
| Yangkun | 02/24/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thank you, Paul. ^^ |
| AL | 01/30/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Recent Answers from Paul Watt
2009-09-16 Faction Profits:
Hi David Greetings from Melbourne, Australia! This is tricky and I'm afraid I don't have a clear answer. If you are contracted as author and your name goes on the book's cover I don't think you owe
2009-05-14 Copyright query:
You should be ok with using these without infringing copyright. Just check the copyright pages of the editions you use (the page with the publisher's name and address and the ISBN) in case a third party
2009-01-29 WRITING:
Hello! What you propose to do is fine so long as you do not directly quote more than 10% of each work you cite. It is plagiarism to re-work passages word for word or to summarise others' works without
2009-01-29 copyright issue:
Hi Bruce This is a tricky question but I am pretty sure that the free copyright deal is between the creators of the images and wiki but not third parties such as yourself. Reproducing the images in your
2009-01-23 software for writing a encyclopedia:
Hi Florian Sorry for taking so long to reply - I have been away for a few days and I have not had access to my email. MS Word has an alphabetical sort under the function called 'Sort' and you'll find
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