As a graduate student or early career academic you likely have a packed schedule. Trying to get published can be a daunting task, especially when you feel you have to do it alone. But maybe you don’t have to. If you can find the right person or persons to collaborate with, say doctoral students Tracey S. Hodges and Katherine Landau Wright, you are less likely to be stressed, and more likely to be productive and on the path to publishing success. Hodges and Wright share the following advice for effective collaboration:
Collaboration: How to determine author order [Infographic]
Collaborating on a writing project can offer many advantages, but how do you determine in which order each author’s name should…
How to establish author order when collaborating with multiple authors
When multiple authors collaborate to write a journal article, the task of determining authorship order inevitably arises. In some situations,…
How to find a co-author to help with the workload on a successful one-author textbook series
Computer science textbook author William Stallings, a 13-time winner of TAA’s Textbook Excellence Award, and five-time winner of TAA’s McGuffey…
How to determine author order when collaborating with multiple authors
When multiple authors collaborate to write a journal article, the task of determining authorship order inevitably arises. In some situations,…
Passing the torch: Selecting a successor to write future textbook editions
Finding a successor for your textbook(s) can be a daunting, arduous task. At TAA’s June 2013 conference veteran authors Robert Christopherson, Michael Sullivan, and Karen Morris presented a session sharing strategies for finding a successor and successfully transitioning the future editions of your texts.
The following is an overview of that presentation, highlighting ten tips to facilitate successor author transitions — “passing the torch.”