Sentences with phrase «authors in attendance»

Our contingent of Lulu team members had a great time working the booth at the exhibition and talking with all of the authors in attendance.

With some of the country's most celebrated authors in attendance, The Fall For the Book Festival at George Mason University has become a very popular book fair.

Printers row Lit Fest draws more than 125, 000 book lovers with hundreds of authors in attendance.

Some of the big named authors in attendance included Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown and Nicholas Sparks.

The conference will wrap on Thursday and Friday as the emphasis will shift to the best selling authors in attendance.

Of course, the opportunity to network with other authors drives self - published authors to the event, as does the chance to meet with some of their favorite bestselling authors in attendance.

One of the recommendations for authors in attendance was to begin the marketing three to six months before the anticipated release date, something that still takes place in the traditional industry.

Three - session Mentoring Clinic taught at the Spring Writers Day sponsored by the Orange County Christian Writers Fellowship, Irvine, CA, April 2007 and 2008 8 - 12 authors in attendance

Six - session Fiction Mentoring Clinic taught at the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference, Mount Hermon, CA, March / April 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 8 - 12 authors in attendance

Three - session Nonfiction Mentoring Clinic taught at the North Texas Christian Writers Conference, Dallas / Fort Worth, TX, September 2009 10 authors in attendance

She also reminded the authors in attendance of what a vast army they represent: «Thousands of people just like you are looking to find help to get your books published.»

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Another, potentially important factor to consider, is that authors did not identify the training level of the midwife in attendance within each study reviewed.

She also authored legislation to finally establish the age of six as the statutory age for full time attendance in school.»

As a result, states marked by shuttered factories or dormant mines also show a widening gap in college attendance between rich and poor, the authors write.

He will be in attendance for the festival's «Heart of Film» screening of «Coming Through the Rye,» in which he portrays author J.D. Salinger.

James Dashner (author) and Wes Ball (director) were also in attendance.

Director Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser will be in attendance at the screening of this new documentary film based on Schlosser's book of the same name, about the 1980 accident in an Arkansas missile silo that nearly caused a nuclear catastrophe.

Also in attendance was Tiffany Haddish, who was joined by author Hal Rubenstein, as well as Brian d'Arcy James and Dolly Wells.

Besides the authors, celebrity guests in attendance included CBS news anchor Katie Couric, HLN host Jane Velez - Mitchell, actor Jamie Hector («The Wire»), CNN reporters Alino Cho and Susan Candiotti, syndicated columnist Keli Goff, educator Dr. Steve Perry and PR maven Terrie Williams.

The authors conducted a review of research on audience response systems (ARS) and conclude that the evidence supports benefits of ARS, including improvements to the classroom environment (increases in attendance, attention levels, participation, and engagement), learning (interaction, discussion, contingent teaching, quality of learning, and learning performance), and assessment (feedback, formative, and normative).

Although, as the authors note, «most non-urban students do reasonably well in any case,» the causal effect of a year of non-urban charter attendance is a substantial reduction in achievement in all levels and subjects, on the order of 0.16 standard deviations in middle school with almost a quarter of a standard deviation decline in high school math.

However, both affected math attitude — the authors suggested attendance and participation in classes exposed students to math instruction and math - related experiences that influenced math attitude — and thus indirectly affected math achievement.

«Background characteristics (e.g., race, gender, neighborhood poverty, free lunch eligibility, being old - for - grade, and special education status) are all related to high school grades and test scores, but they do not tell us any more about who will pass, get good grades, or score well on tests in high school, once we take into account students» eighth - grade GPAs, attendance, and test scores,» the authors said.

As the authors say, «a dramatic drop in grades, attendance, and academic behavior is a common warning sign of this strain.

Based on recent research on Baltimore City's community schools, the authors highlight the approaches shared by community school coordinators in schools that have demonstrated comparatively high student attendance and positive school climate.

The authors use follow a cohort of students to demonstrate how indicators reflecting poor attendance, misbehavior and course failure in sixth grade can be used to identify 60 % of the students who will not graduate from high school.

The author used data from the state of Ohio to compare student attendance in elementary schools that...

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

In a 2016 study published by the Brookings Institution, authors Jing Liu and Susanna Loeb found that high school teachers who are able to better engage their students (as measured by attendance) are able to do so consistently year over year.

The authors suggest that districts provide resources like early warning systems, plus professional development courses on how to address chronic absenteeism and how to bring up attendance issues in conversations with parents.

Corvette author and owner Tom Falconer will be in attendance as well.

Authors, to grow attendance to book signings, try tying in your even to a larger event.

Some of the celebrated authors who will be in attendance at this year's event, its thirteenth annual staging since it was first coordinated by then - First Lady Laura Bush in 2000, include Khaled Hosseini, Margaret Atwood, Katherine Applegate, Rick Atkinson, Veronica Roth, Holly Black, Jamaica Kincaid, Joyce Carol Oates, and more.

In contrast, live author appearances by authors who aren't well known may to have low attendance.

The conference attracted more than five hundred writers, but also in attendance were several agents, a couple New York Times bestselling authors (Dan Simmons and Phillip Athans), and a few small presses.

20 Finalists will get prizes valued at over $ 500 including a 6 - month membership to AuthorU.org, webinar designed exclusively around Nuggets for Newbies, exclusive teleseminar dedicated to social media for authors and tools to use, exclusive webinar with Ingram, discounts to all Author U events and complimentary attendance at the Eaglet / Eagle Publishing Day at the Author U Extravaganza on May 7, 2015, participation in a special How - to Crowdfunding Webinar, Special teleconference with open mic dealing with back office, shopping carts, websites; Beyond the Book Store by Brian Jud, Show Me About Book Publishing by Judith Briles, John Kremer, Rick Frishman and The Write Way by Amy Collins.

This is the first year the conference has moved to a full two day format and many of the top publishers, tech companies and authors will be in attendance.

They had popular authors such as Kevin J Anderson in attendance to give us their experiences in beta testing the platform.

While a major conference can expect to have attendance in the thousands, though, a smaller scale event like a book signing or book tour gives authors a chance to connect in a little more personal way with their fans.

Stephanie: We are usually 15 - 25 in attendance unless we have a guest author leading our discussion, at which time attendance has been as many as 50.

These limited - attendance question - answer sessions are conducted by professional authors, publishing professionals, and marketing specialists with the sole purpose of providing information that attendees can utilize in their writing careers, but without the pressure of being in a larger panel or whole - group setting.

Thousands of authors were in attendance, signing autographs and promoting their books.

Vanity anthologizers may also bombard writers with solicitations to buy other things — their poem mounted on a plaque, their story made into an audiotape, membership in an authors» registry maintained by the company, attendance at a writers» conference hosted by the company.

Barb and J.C. will be in attendance along with other SF / F / H authors at the Beaverton, Oregon, branch of «Powell's Books» this coming November 4th @ 4:30 pm (PST).

That, of course, seems to indicate that self - publishing authors, bloggers, consultants and digital service providers must have formed a substantial part of the attendance in previous years.

The panel of speakers includes art historian and critic Dore Ashton; Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler; critic and professor Hilton Kramer; critic and author Stanley Kunitz; and critic and professor Leo Steinberg.3 Both Rosenquist and Marcel Duchamp are in attendance at the symposium.

The event was a stellar occasion, with many celebrity authors and guests in attendance and four choice titles to applaud.

The authors examined the results by program type and found that alternative educational programs (programs involving a group of students in a traditional school) and behavioral programs (programs targeting school behaviors and increasing problem - solving skills with a system of rewards and punishments) had significant positive effects on attendance and enrollment measures.