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Then I was a mentor to another teacher. When I pointed out that the bookWhat got me started in pedagogy many years ago was a high school
had some very bad errors, he didn't listen, and continued to use the bad
info. So teachers are just as guilty as publishers. They have very rigid
paradigms that are difficult to challenge and change.
Also errors not only propagate to later editions, the publishers are cheapYep, seen lots of this.
so they lift erroneous pictures and graphs from one textbook and put them in
others. So the error propagate to other texts supposedly by other authors.
Dr. Roy Jensen
John M. Clement
Houston, TX
What fascinates me is how so many bugs can persist for so long.in the THIRD
How can there be a thousand errors in a thousand pages ...
EDITION?
Only the third? I started using the 7th edition of a
first-year chemistry textbook. There is a picture of a simple
electric-sector mass spectrometer with + and - flipped.
Actually, a student brought it to my attention. I informed
the publisher and one of the authors.
Tenth edition: still wrong.
A colleague and I picked apart a first-edition "Engineering
for Chemists" textbook much like you did a few years ago. We
had about one notable error every two pages. One major error
I remember is that the author occasionally used Co as the
symbol for copper. (Co is cobalt; Cu is copper.) Sent all the
errors to the author and publisher. The publisher responded,
"stylistic preferences." I just looked up the book. Still in
the first edition. 580 pages. 20 cm × 25 cm (8 in × 10 in).
Sells for 200 $.
And you wonder why I avoid publishers.
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