Dear Krishna Prasad, dear Christophe,

Thank you for these detailed references! They will be most useful for me.

Dominik, thank you for your kind words. I simply hope that Brill will follow my design suggestions (a professional designer would be even better, of course); the publisher of the CIS more or less ignored my layouting, and the fight to have it restored at least for the most part is one of the reasons why the book took so long to come out.

(And in case the mention of Brill raises a red flag for anyone: the Reader will be marketed as a textbook, priced at around $45; hence no on interested in it should have to sell an organ or their first-born to afford it!)

Thank you again to everyone so generously sharing their time and thoughts,
    Antonia

On 18 June 2017 at 15:20, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com> wrote:
On 17 June 2017 at 16:30, Antonia Ruppel <rhododaktylos@gmail.com> wrote:
 
If, as we were talking about at an earlier point in this exchange, we want to give students regular little success experiences, then the right amount of notes, given in a format they are used to and right there on the page, to me seems the best way forward.

​Dear Antonia, You refer to the familiarity of the format and same-page-ness; this is something I hadn't thought about​, but of course you are exactly right.  The way the material is presented visually is also critically important to a good learners' book (and one of the many good things about your CIS).  I hope Brill can stump up for a designer for you.

Best,
Dominik




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