A Writing Destination: Desktop Publishing and Print Collections

<body>  <a href="#lastcrumb" title="Skip Breadcrumb Navigation" onfocus="expandMenu('breadskip');" onblur="hideSkip('breadskip');" ><img src="/wps/media/styles/1480/_skins_/D/default_blue/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Skip Breadcrumb Navigation" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"></a><div class="submenu" id="breadskip"><span class="breadcrumbs">[Skip Breadcrumb Navigation]</span><noscript>: <a href="#lastcrumb"><span class="breadcrumbs">[Skip Breadcrumb Navigation]</span></a></noscript><br> </div> <table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"> <tr align="left" valign="top">  <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="/long_alexander_an_1/27/7031/1799965.cw/index.html" target="_top" class="breadcrumbs" >Home</a></td>  <td align="left" valign="middle"> <img src="/wps/media/styles/1480/_skins_/D/default_blue/breadcrumb_arrow.gif" alt=" arrow " width="21" height="9" hspace="0" vspace="2" border="0"> </td>  <td align="left" valign="top"><span class="breadcrumbs"><a name="lastcrumb" id="lastcrumb">A Writing Destination: Desktop Publishing and Print Collections</a></span></td> </tr> </table> <p /> <span class="breadcrumbs">No Frames Version</span><br> <span class="homepageTitle">A Writing Destination: Desktop Publishing and Print Collections</span><p /> Desktop publishing capability makes it possible for authors to prepare material for publication up to the final stage of the publishing process: the actual printing of multiple copies for distribution. In fact, major publishers are increasingly asking individual authors to submit their manuscripts in "camera-ready" form, prepared for duplication and distribution. Computers also make it possible for an editor to put together a professional-looking newsletter or a small newspaper in office space at home. One local editor we know converted his den to a publishing office and prepared an entire newspaper for the printer every other week. And at colleges and universities across the country, desktop publishing has been used in writing classrooms for almost two decades to produce volumes of students' work for varied purposes. <p> A printed collection of essays produced by members of your class can be a lasting product of your experience in the course, and, as many have personally discovered, it will probably become a souvenir of your college experience that will grow more valuable as the years pass. In colleges, facilities for preparing print publications are usually readily available in computer classrooms or labs. You can take advantage of these resources to produce a print volume of your own writing or that of your class, such as a book of poems, essays, or reviews. As a learning experience, creating a book as a class project can teach you much about how the publishing process works, and skills learned can later be adapted to other projects. Such books are generally not difficult to put together, but they do require organization to make the project go smoothly and reach completion in time. Let's consider some of the essentials. </p> <p> Continue exploring this section by clicking on the links below: </p> <p> <A HREF="/long_alexander_an_1/27/7031/1800000.cw/index.html" TARGET="_top" >Compiling a Collection</A><br> <A HREF="/long_alexander_an_1/27/7031/1800003.cw/index.html" TARGET="_top" >Creating a Staff: Editorial, Production, Art</A><br> <A HREF="/long_alexander_an_1/27/7031/1800004.cw/index.html" TARGET="_top" >Finding a Title</A><br> <A HREF="/long_alexander_an_1/27/7031/1800005.cw/index.html" TARGET="_top" >Ideas for Collections</A> </p> <br> <p /> <ul> <li> <a href="/long_alexander_an_1/27/7031/1799999.cw/sitenav/index.html">Site Navigation</a><br /> <li> <a href="/long_alexander_an_1/27/7031/1799999.cw/leftnav/index.html">Navigation for A Writing Destination: Desktop Publishing and Print Collections</a> <ul> </body>