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ENG 131, CREATIVE WRITING
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POETRY PROJECT DESCRIBED For your poetry project, you are asked to prepare a small book--a chapbook--for publication. Your book should consist of not less than 20 poems which you have written and revised for the course. Use a "publishing" system to format your book so that it is presented "ready to print." That means that you should not only include all the parts of the book listed below, but you should format the book so that a print-out would look exactly like the book you would want printed. Systems which will do this are commonly most either Microsoft Publisher or PageMaker. When you send me your completed file, please transmit it as an attachment in a format that I can download properly, as for example, a document file or a PageMaker file. If you have a question about the set-up of the book or how to transmit it, please ask me well in advance of your final deadline! Your poetry book/project must include the following (some "generic" material provided): Front Cover (preferably with an illustration, artwork or photography). Title page. Copyright and acknowledgements page. Click for sample. Dedication (optional). Foreword (your own comments introducing your poetry). Table of Contents. Art work facing the first poem (optional). Not less than 20 poems. About the Author (a brief biographical note about yourself). Page numbers should begin on the first poem. Back Cover (preferably with a head shot of you; cover "blurb" describing the poetry; book price and if you have the skill, place a barcode by the price). Click for a back cover sample. SOME HINTS to look professional: Don't use more than one typeface in your book. Try something readable and presentable like Book Antiqua (12 pt.) or Bookman Old Style (12 pt.) and use black ink throughout your book. Don't illustrate your poems or print them on a page with a design. Don't center your poems. Rather, print them flush left. TITLES, all caps Boldface. Do try to catch all typos! Look at the book as an attempt at the perfect
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Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Dr. David B. Axelrod
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