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First page proofs of Accountability Frankenstein corrected
I misunderstood some of the directions on sending back corrections of page proofs, so finishing the first set of page proofs took a few extra hours I didn’t anticipate today. But I’ve sent the corrected PDFs back to the publisher, so Accountability Frankenstein is one more step to publication.
2624 missing citations
Here’s why you check the text against the references before the manuscript goes to the publisher: With 658 publications listed currently, there are still 26 I mentioned in the text but didn’t have in the references section, and there are a bunch in the references section that don’t appear in the text. So I’ll be […]
Expertise tackled; the world is next
Whew! I’ve split up the former chapter 2 into two chapters, expanded the analysis of expertise and the political drives for test-score accountability in the new chapter 2, and polished the new chapter 3 a bit. The rest of the revision checklist is now much narrower: Change chapter summaries in preface and new chapter 6 […]
180,000 words served
Taking a brief break from polishing the new chapter 2 of Accountability Frankenstein, I copied and pasted every entry of this blog and then counted words. It’s 210,000 words in about 720 entries… but it’s less than that, because some entries are in more than one category, and the copy/paste job included the tags around […]
To every task there is a season… (and a state of health)
Polishing a 65-page (double-spaced) references section isn’t the most thrilling job in the world, and I’ve been pecking away at it in odd moments for the last few weeks, but when I’m healthy there are too many other, far more rewarding activities to draw my attention…. until I woke up from too little sleep this […]