"Good technical editors can go far these days towards actually protecting the job of the scientist and defending the cause of worthwhile scientific research. Let them rise to the occasion."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29122
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Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker. 2 pages., Reviews an article about residents of Kazakhstan who rode, employed and drank the milk of horses more than 5,000 years ago.
2 pages., Online via publisher. 2 pages., Report from a former ACE officer who played a key role in "setting high standards for the ACE journal, then known as AAACE Quarterly, to a refereed, high-quality publication, now the Journal of Applied Communication."
Reports from several states on methods they use in planning, preparing and distributing print materials published by the Experiment Station or Extension Service.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09907
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Presentation at the Association of Communication Excellence (ACE) conference during the Agricultural Media Summit, Scottsdale, Arizona, August 4-8, 2018. 47 pages. PowerPoint slides.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C11839
Journal Title Details:
pp. 16-18
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Presentation at The Fourth Annual Conferences of The American Association of Agricultural College Editors at Manhattan, KS, June 21-23, 1916, Proceedings of The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Annual Conferences of The American Association of Agricultural College Editors by Subject Term(s)
Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) in 1919
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11904
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Correspondence from author to ACDC. 2 pages., Case example of an agricultural economist who came to the editor in a renewable energy research center with the text he was going to publish as a book. He rejected the editorial suggestions offered and had 2,000 copies of the text printed. Only 48 "ever saw the light of day. The remaining 1,952 copies were destroyed" for lack of demand.
This article is maintained in files of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Rockwood newsletter" file., Author's newsletter to fellow editors and communicators associated with international agricultural research centers (IARCs)., Reader and author discuss challenges of preparing annual reports.
