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6 Excellent blogs about academic writing
With all the demands on your time, you might think that you don’t have the time to read about your craft because you are too busy working on your craft. However, spending some time everyday reading about academic writing best practices, tips, and strategies can actually help you save time in the long run.
Authors groups lose fight against Google Book Search
New York Federal Judge Denny Chin ruled November 14 that Google’s Book Search project meets the definition of fair use…
Featured Member Patricia Goodson – Promoting outstanding writing
Patricia Goodson is Professor of Health Education at Texas A&M University, and Director of the College of Education and Human Development’s…
Maintain an open ‘ancillary idea file’ for your textbook
As an author of several textbooks and ancillaries over a couple of decades, Kevin Patton, professor of Life Science at…
Featured Members June Parsons and Dan Oja – Digital textbooks and pedagogy
Digital book pioneers June Parsons and Dan Oja co-developed the first commercially successful multimedia, interactive digital textbook; one that set the bar for platforms now being developed by educational publishers.
The coauthors began writing and creating educational software for Course Technology in 1992 and between them have authored more than 150 college computer textbooks. They currently have several digital textbooks in print, including the best-selling New Perspectives on Computer Concepts.: