021:122 Description Practice

School of Library and Information Science
21:122 Organization of Information Resources I
Summer 2004
Gregory Cotton, instructor

Description Practice

Purpose: To provide an opportunity to construct bibliographical records according to the rules and format of AACR2.

Procedure: Examine each title page and its corresponding verso below, along with other pertinent details. Create a bibliographic description for each item. Answers to this exercise may be found here.

Principles of Speaking

Third Edition

Kenneth G. Hance
(Michigan State University (Emeritus)

David C. Ralph
Michigan State University

Milton J. Wiskell
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee

Wadsword Publishing Company, Inc.
Belmont, California

c1975 by Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc.

c1962, 1969 by Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc.

ISBN-0-534-003737

The book has sections numbered 1-153, i-lxxv, and 1-36. There are portraits, maps, and illustratuions, the latter or which are 45% colored. The spine measures 18.5 cm; the width of the book is 9 cm.

COOKING
from
QUILT COUNTRY

Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens

by Marcia Adams

photographs by Alexandra Avakian
Designed by Laurence Vetu-Kane

Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. / Publishers

Text copyright c1989 by Marcia Adams

published by Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022

The book has sections numbered to ix and 34, with 145 unnumbered pages. There are 6 colored maps, 1 colored portrait, 97 other colored illustrations, 10 b&w illustrations. The spine measures 25.4 cm.

Writing Teachers at Work

Writing:
A Window to Our Minds

by Center School's Eighth Graders and Nancy Marashio

editorial assistance by Sarah Dandridge

The National Writing Project
University of California, Berkeley

Series Editor: Gerald Camp

The book has sections numbered to xix and 150. There are illustrations (of a miscellaneous variety, some colored, some not). The spine measures 26.3 cm.

A Primer in
Political Attitudes
and Behavior

THE POLITICS WITHIN

Jarol B. Manheim
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University

Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

c1975 by Prentice-Hall, Inc.

The book has a bibliography on pages 3 to 15, a preface numbered to xxxiv, other pages numbered to 573, and no illustrations. The spine measures 22 cm; the book is 24 cm wide.

D.H. Lawrence

SEX, LITERATURE and CENSORSHIP

Essays, edited by Harry T. Moore

Twayne Publishers
New York

The book is 315 pages, has a preface numbered to xlvii, has no illustrations, and measures 19.1 cm. on the spine.

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