Lydia Cline, a drafting professor at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and the author of five text and trade books, said she has found that posting short videos on her books’ topics to YouTube can be an effective way to promote them.
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Once you have delivered your textbook manuscript to your publisher, the book production process begins. What should you, the author, do after…
5 Tips for sprinting past writer’s block
For most writers, whether they need to start a new project or pick one up that’s been left on the back burner for a while, their biggest writing challenge tends to center around getting started, says Margarita Huerta, Assistant Professor of English Language Learning/Early Childhood Education, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Huerta, who will be presenting a 30-minute webinar entitled, “Writing With POWER” for TAA’s September Virtual Dissertation Writing Boot Camp, shares her strategies for getting past the “block”:
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If you are thinking of writing a textbook, an important step in the process is to research other textbooks in…
Beware of spam email from predatory journal publishers
TAA member Laura Frost recently received an email from a journal soliciting a paper based on her 2014 TAA Conference…
Why you should write a private and public purpose statement for your book
By taking some time to really think through the purpose and scope of your book project and why you are really…