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Following is a suggested outline for writing the course
paper for Foundations in Graphic Communications (option 2: Write a
“production history” of a book or a magazine, beginning with content
creation and continuing through all the stages of manufacture
(prepress, proofing, printing, binding and finishing.)
• What kind of publication am I
writing about?
• book: title? audience or market? illustrated or
text-only?
• magazine: title? audience or market? frequency?
circulation? advertising-supported?
• What is the format of the
publication?
• number of pages?
• trim size?
• amount of color?
• types of illustrations?
• kind(s) of paper?
• binding method?
• What kinds of production
technologies will be used, and why?
• digital prepress?
• computer-to-plate (CTP)?
• conventional printing? sheetfed or web?
• digital printing?
• variable-data printing?
• What happens in each phase of the
production process?
• creative/design?
• prepress (including proofing and preflighting)?
• press?
• postpress?
• Will any complementary multimedia
technologies be used?
• Web sites?
• bound-in CDs or DVDs?
• blogs?
• podcasts?
general advice:
• REMEMBER: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
IS SESSION 11, 4-23-09
• PAPERS MAY BE E-MAILED TO
PThenry@citytech.cuny.edu
• WRITE CLEARLY
• SPELL-CHECK AND PROOFREAD YOUR
PAPER BEFORE SUBMITTING
• REMEMBER: MINIMUM REQUIRED LENGTH
IS 1,500 WORDS (COUNT WORDS, NOT PAGES)
• CITE YOUR SOURCES
• IF DESIRED, USE ILLUSTRATIONS,
CLIPS, ETC. (NOT MANDATORY)
• DON’T COPY LONG PASSAGES VERBATIM
FROM GETTING
IT PRINTED
• DON’T DO “WEB DUMPS”
• DON’T CUT-AND-PASTE FROM WIKIPEDIA
• THIS GUIDELINES DOCUMENT HAS BEEN
POSTED TO BLACKBOARD
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