How have you developed or demonstrated this competency this semester?
As I reflected with Suzanna, I believe that this is the area I have improved most at the press. A large part of permissions is looking through permissions request forms or emails, identifying the relevant (and irrelevant) information, and figuring out what is missing and what questions to ask to get that information. Then, after I get as much information as possible, I send the permissions agreement off to Suzanna with further questions if necessary. I started doing permissions during last spring semester, and my improvement in efficiency and accuracy is obvious to both me and Suzanna. One of the hardest parts of permissions is determining the fee. This takes analyzing both quantitative data (print run, number of pages/poems they are using, past fees for similar contracts) and qualitative data (how they will be using the excerpts in format and in purpose) to determine a fee that is fair. I struggled a great deal with this at first; the press receives so many different permissions requests for so many different projects. After this semester, I have definitely improved on being able to synthesize these pieces of data and for the most part, the fee I initially propose to Suzanna is the one we propose to the requestor.
