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Session Topics
  • General formatting guidelines
  • Title Pages
  • All about volumes
  • Dedications, Acknowledgments, Prefaces, Forwards, and Introductions
  • The Contents Pages
  • The Special Symbols Page


  • Writing Exercise

  • Special Codes course

  • Session 3 Exercise

    Directions: prepare for submission the following exercise. Using either slate and stylus, Perkins brailler, or one of the electronic braille software packages, transcribe into braille the following preliminary pages (highly edited, by the way!). Electronic braille generated using a six-key Perkins emulator is the preferred format.

    For your submission, assume that your agency does use running heads as a matter of policy.

    Submit your braille either via email (if you are using one of the computer-based brailling tools) or via snail-mail (US Postal Service). Electronic braille (Mac/PCBrailler, Duxbury, Edgar, Megadots, Pokadots) should be sent via email to rbroadnax@shodor.org.

    Since one of the goals of this work is to ensure that you have the correct formatting, you should try to send your file as an email attachment. If you need help learning how to do this, please let me know. It would also be helpful if you could tell me what software you are using to do your work, so that I open your file correctly with the appropriate software the first time and not risk corrupting it by opening it with the wrong software.

    You can also use the text box at the bottom of this page to submit your work. Simply cut and paste the braille into the box, then click on the "Submit braille" button. CAUTION: use of this text box MAY NOT preserve your formatting.

    DO NOT SEND VIA "FREE MATTER FOR THE BLIND."

    A word of CAUTION: the material below has been proofed carefully. If there are mistakes in grammar, use of punctuation, etc., those mistakes were in the text. It's your job to decide what to do about them!

    No hardcopy braille is accepted. All submissions must be done electronically, using any of the braille preparation software packages (Duxbury, Megadots, Edgar, Pokadot, etc.)


    Note: Lines across the full width of the page represent new pages. Shorter lines represent lines that appear in print. When brailling, insert page breaks if your software allows you to so. If not, please provide some indication via email or in the document itself where you would use a new page.

    Note: the center of the book has 16 pages of photographs, each extensively captioned. A survey of the book suggests that there are no special symbols used, or any infrequently used symbols.


    Part One: Title Page

    Prepare an appropriate title page for a book, given the following information. Use your own personal information as appropriate!


    Title: The FBI
    Author: Ronald Kessler
    Publishers/Copyright owners: Pocket Star Books, copyright by Ronald Kessler
    Copyright date: 1993
    Braille version has three volumes, this is volume one, pages i-xxi and 1-85


    Part Two: Inside Jacket


    PRAISE FOR RONALD KESSLER'S
    THE FBI

    Inside the World's Most Powerful
    Law Enforcment Agency

    "Well-written. . . . Lively. . . . . A fascinating story of the bureau's major investigative triumphs. . . ." ---Washington Post

    "Impressive....Insider perspective.....an informative study by Kessler.....persuasively documented....." ---The New York Times Book Review


    Part Three: Inside page


    Other books by Ronald Kessler

    The FBI*
    Inside the CIA*
    Escape from the CIA*

    *Published by POCKET BOOKS


    Part Four: Dedication


    For Pam, Greg, and Rachel Kessler


    Part Five: Content page


    Contents


    Author's Note and Acknowledgements   vi

    Introduction    1

    1. New York: Home of the Roast Beef Sandwich  7

    2. Criminal Division: Quality over Quanity   36

    3. Inspection Division: Tracking a Hot Dog Cart   79


    Part Six: Author's Note/Acknowledgement page


    Author's Note and Acknowledgements


    I am grateful to the FBI agents mentioned below, from those on the street to those in the executive suite. Their help and candor made this book. So many of them went out of their way that I am reminded of the lyrics to Roy Orbison's song "You Got It":

    Anything you want
    You got it
    Anything you need
    You got it


    Part Seven: Introduction page


    Introduction


    Before new FBI agents met J. Edgar Hoover, Jr., Simon Tullai, who was in charge of new-agent training, gave them a lecture on how to present themselves.
      After the meeting, Hoover would question whether certain agents had what it took to be FBI agents.



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