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Employee Spotlight: Annette Cinelli Trossello

This month’s Employee Spotlight features PSG’s project manager/editor/mother/literature lover/aspiring writer/self-proclaimed irony expert. Seriously, don’t mention an unfortunate coincidence as being ironic, or I will call you out on it. I’ve been with Publishing Solutions Group since 2008, and in the office I can often be found phoning clients, emailing freelancers and updating schedules. In addition to such project management responsibilities, I also work [...]

By Publishing Solutions Group|2018-11-09T10:38:07-05:00April 9th, 2014|

Enter The Twittersphere, Possibilities Abound

As a graduate student in publishing, I am frequently asked the same thing by professors, peers and random people once they discover what I study. It is often some version of the question, “Where do you get your news?” While I have my go-to publications that I read extensively to keep up with popular trends and changes within the publishing industry, my first [...]

By Nick Persad|2018-11-08T10:31:16-05:00April 8th, 2014|

Intern Spotlight: Meet Liz

I developed my love of literature when I was a teenager in high school. I found my English classes exciting because they were the only classes, besides my history classes, that I found remotely interesting. While most of my classmates dreaded analyzing dialogue and writing papers on The Scarlet Letter or Death of A Salesman, I wished that I could spend my whole day in English [...]

By Publishing Solutions Group|2018-11-09T10:38:16-05:00April 4th, 2014|

Internet Grammar: #Fail?

The internet has undoubtedly changed the way we speak. BTW (alternatively, beeteedubs) has crawled its way into my daily vocabulary. Yesterday, my friend ended her sentence with IRL; my puzzled look led her to explain: “in real life.” Last week, I made a joke to my fifty-five-year-old father, to which he responded: “LOL.” But the internet has done more than create everyday acronyms; it has changed [...]

By Tess Klingenstein|2018-11-08T10:29:45-05:00April 3rd, 2014|

College-Sanctioned Software: Can It Take the Place of a Student Adviser?

Recently, Georgia State University (GSU) has increased its graduation rate by 22 percent thanks to recent changes in the way it is handling its academic advising program. One of these changes includes using a new type of software created by the Education Advisory Board (EAB). The software aids students and academic advisers by sending alerts to both parties when academic issues start to arise. For [...]

By Liz Canon|2018-11-08T10:28:41-05:00April 1st, 2014|

A Gaggle of Google Books

Since December 2004, Google has been working to create a “comprehensive, searchable, virtual card catalog” by scanning thousands of books, converting the scans to searchable text, and uploading the content into its digital database. Many of these books are out of print, collecting dust and mold on the far shelves of libraries. It’s likely that without Google’s rehabilitating project, these books would eventually [...]

By Tess Klingenstein|2018-11-08T10:28:05-05:00March 27th, 2014|

College Costs Slow, But So Does Federal Aid

The Great Recession of 2008 that rocked the United States for more than a year made many aspects of life difficult for Americans, including the decision to attend a four-year college program. With college tuition prices mounting, it was helpful for many that there was also an increase in the amount of federal aid offered during the time of and right after the [...]

By Olivia Billbrough|2018-11-08T10:25:40-05:00March 25th, 2014|

STEM’s Growing Pains

Many American students are overwhelmed at the thought of education beyond the high-school level, particularly when confronted with the idea of having a STEM-based job. STEM is the acronym defined as “science, technology, engineering and math,” and majors leading to careers in these fields, despite encouragement by educators and administrators, are not seeing the growth necessary to sustain the future workforce. In an article from The [...]

By Nick Persad|2018-11-08T10:24:59-05:00March 20th, 2014|

Teaching Patience in the Classroom

The age-old adage “patience is a virtue” is becoming harder and harder for students to grasp, according to Jessica Lahey. In her article “Relearning the Lost Skill of Patience,” Lahey discusses the lack of patience among today’s youth and the need for teachers to instill this traditional quality in their students in order to strengthen their learning abilities. Today’s students are surrounded by computers, tablets [...]

By Liz Canon|2018-11-08T10:24:14-05:00March 18th, 2014|

A Study of Fiction

Two studies came out in 2013—one administered in the Netherlands, the other in the US—that suggest that people who read literary fiction are more skilled at reading, and consequently are more skilled at relating to others. David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano, two American social psychologists from the New School for Social Research, investigated whether peoples’ Theory of Mind (ToM)—the ability to recognize that other people [...]

By Tess Klingenstein|2018-11-08T10:23:40-05:00March 13th, 2014|

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