I don’t write enough because…
I have a day job—teaching.
I have no unscheduled time.
Author Beware: Predatory scholarly journals, Insights on OA predatory publishing from Jeffrey Beall
The increase in popularity of online scholarly journals has given rise to new open-access publishing models, including the gold open-access…
Featured Member Al Trujillo – Cutting edge: Using QR codes in a textbook
Al Trujillo is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Earth Sciences at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. He has worked with his co-author, Hal Thurman, on Essentials of Oceanography (Trujillo and Thurman, Pearson Education) since the 6th edition, and they have also co-authored Introductory Oceanography, which is now in its 10th edition.
Here Trujillo discusses the value and functionality of embedding QR code technology into textbooks:
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…
6 Tips for a productive summer break
Summer vacation can be a great time for academic writers to get ahead on their writing projects, but all too often professors and graduate students find themselves scrambling to get something—anything—finished as summer comes to a close, and wondering how the summer slipped away from them.
8 Strategies for writing group success
Writing groups provide an opportunity for you to connect with your peers, create a sense of community, and find collaborators for joint projects. By meeting regularly as a group, you can provide one another with peer support and accountability while sharing advice that can help improve writing skills and lead to greater publication success.