18. Are these statements true or false? Correct the false ones.

1. The published product is more than the sum total of its constituent parts.

2. Students on editing courses are taught that books are not upholders of civilization.

3. The printed word should be treated differently as it affects the whole question of free speech, debate and argument throughout the land.

4. A book is more than its cover, pages and ink thereon.

5. Writers have a responsibility to question a book's moral impact on society.

Writing a book landed Salman Rushdie with a price tag of 10 million pounds on his head.

6. The role played by publishers in the human rights movement has not been important. F (has been pivotal)

7. The basic work of protecting human rights begins with documentation.

8. The power to communicate applies to books alone.

9. Dictators tried to burn, or the politically correct, to ban books because they smack of permanence.

19. Answer the following questions:

1) How can books change life?

2) What is the real product within the published product?

3) What does the ability to publish provide?

4) What are students on publishing courses taught?

5) Why should the printed word be treated differently?

6) What responsibility do publishers have?

7) Do you agree that the role played by publishers in the human rights movement has been pivotal? Give your examples.

8) What does the basic work of protecting human rights begin with?

9) Does the power to communicate apply to books alone?

10) Why can newspaper articles and television programmes be more immediate in their effectiveness?

11) Why are many media of communication necessarily ephemeral?

12) Why have the dictators tried to burn or ban the books?

20. Work in pairs. Discuss the questions No. 1, 5, 6, 7

21. Give the best possible translation of the title and retell the text close to the original.

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY EXERCISES

1. Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.

1) Geniuses usually face the challenge of being misunderstood by their contemporaries.

2) Recent studies pose a serious challenge to the facts described in the article.

3) No one has challenged the editor-in-chief's opinion.

4) The sentences are numbered for ease of reference.

5) Students are advised to visit reference libraries while doing researches.

6) See the list of references at the end of the textbook.

7) Some historians question the validity of oral data.

8) The editorial board was beginning to question the necessity of publishing her article in this issue.

9) The positive moral impact of this novel seems highly questionable.

10) The refusal to publish his latest novel caused untold damage to his mental state.

11) This kind of literature can do damage to children.

12) The ancient book had been severely damaged by centuries.

13) We are facing now a pivotal moment in the history of book-making.

2. Fill in each gap with items from the box. Some words can be repeated.

Challenges / reference/ / damage -s / pivotal / to challenge / damaged / references / to question / to do damage / success

1)...........book

2)....................the theory

3) to take up.......................

4)...........effect

5) to question.......

6) to meet..........................

7) to suffer...........................

8) to make.....................

9)...............role

10)......................section

11)................witnesses

12) literary..................

13)....................smb's motives

14) untold....................

Word sets: Publishing. Underline the odd word in each line.

1) questionable, dubious, debatable, trustworthy

2) pivotal, foremost, outstanding, crucial

3) to question, to wonder, to challenge, to doubt

4) harmful, damaging, unreliable, destructive

5) reference, quotation, citation, note