In order to be a more productive writer while juggling many other duties in his career, William Weare, Access Services…
Taking humor seriously: How to use humor as a pedagogical tool
Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and founder of The Cartoon Bank, is one of the nation’s leading…
Look who’s keynoting at the 27th Annual Textbook & Academic Authoring Conference
Bob Mankoff, nationally renowned cartoon editor for The New Yorker, will keynote the Text and Academic Authors Association’s 27th Annual…
Featured Member Mike Kennamer – Insights on writing, project development and the value of developing a business structure
Mike Kennamer currently serves as Director of Workforce Development at Northeast Alabama Community College and is President/CEO of Kennamer Media…
Bob Mankoff to keynote 2014 TAA Conference
Robert Mankoff, nationally renowned cartoon editor for The New Yorker, will be the keynote speaker at TAA’s 2014 Conference with…
Whose book title is it, anyway?
Professor Charlotte Smith, an up-and-coming young entomologist, decided to write a textbook for the always-popular, upper-level course on spiders. After putting out a few feelers, she submitted a proposal to Six Legs Press, a leading publisher of  books about insects. Six Legs loved the proposal and offered Professor Smith a contract. Charlotte was so abuzz with excitement—”tenure, here I come!” she yelled—that she signed the contract without even reading it.