This third edition of Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement by William Sims Curry incorporates research-based best practices, real-world procurement fraud cases, and offers recommendations for deterring fraud. This textbook is aimed at public administration, policy and procurement, along with public procurement postgraduate students and academics working in the fields of public administration, policy and procurement.
Day One: Book Proposal
By John BondÂ
Writers take different journeys getting to a published book. Some write their manuscript, and then write a book proposal. Some may work on both simultaneously. Some may never write a book proposal. And I am sure there are other permutations. I think a case can be made for writing a full, final book proposal before you ever write a single word of your manuscript. Hear me out.
Book proposals (the way I suggest people create them) include Project Overview and Summary, Extended Table of Contents, Project Specifications and Status, Book Market, Competitive or Complimentary Books, Author Bio, and Author Promotional Platform. Contact me for what each of these mean if you are unsure.
Writing a book proposal as a first step does not mean anything is set in stone. The table of contents, the title, the competitive books: all of it can change if needed. So, why create this before writing?
Industry News Round-Up Week of 11/11/24
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Scholarly Publishing World Slow to Embrace Generative AI (11/14/24)
Kindness in Academic Workplaces Can Boost Well-Being and Reduce Stress, Study Shows (11/13/24)
Flynn vs McGraw Hill LLC: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (11/6/24)
Dear Dr. Noelle: Reciprocal Relationships of Advisors With Students
By Dr. Noelle Sterne
Q: How much about yourself should you divulge to create a reciprocal relationship?
–Approachable Advisor
A: The benchmark is boundaries. For your poor suffering student, you want to be approachable, supportive, encouraging, and all the other wonderful adjectives of a sterling advisor. BUT—you don’t want to be over-open or fall into a sinkhole of too much sharing.
What’s appropriate for you to share:
How you struggled in graduate school, the nightmare of your defense.
What’s not appropriate for you to share:
Your latest root canal agony, your septic system failure.
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Egocentric Reading: Using Literature to Support Your Own Research
By Dave Harris
When we notice egocentrism, it is usually a bad thing: who likes the know-it-all who thinks only of themself? But lack of egocentrism is also bad: we need to know where we stand on issues; we need to trust our own knowledge enough to commit to projects and tasks, and to commit to words on the page. I want to emphasize the importance of egocentrism in reading as a crucial factor in using the research literature effectively, and how writing is an effective tool for building the right kind of egocentrism.
Writing Productivity Tip: Block Double the Time and Commit to Half
TAA member David Stehlik, an associate professor of Management and Leadership at the University of St. Francis, shared his approach to increasing writing productivity during TAA’s August 2024 Conversation Circle on the topic of productivity:
“I block double the time and commit to half. So, if I think I could write it in two hours, I book a full morning/afternoon, and then I commit to getting half of it done. It’s more realistic. When I’m on the ball, the productivity is energizing. When I’m not, it’s less debilitating.