Summer vacation can be a great time for academic writers to get ahead on their writing projects, but all too…
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…
E-Yikes! The challenges of publishing in e-journals
There’s much to be said for e-journals. They save trees. Vast collections can be saved on a hard or flash drive, or on our newest shelf, the Cloud. Any of them can be read on an iPad or Kindle or a computer screen. Shipping costs are nil. Searching is incredibly easy. Entire libraries are accessible on line. An individual article can be purchased without a year’s subscription.
But e-journals have a couple of serious downsides: cost of publication and access, and journal issue preservation.
Featured Member Michael Spiegler – Textbook Writing 101
Michael Spiegler is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Providence College. A successful textbook and academic author for…
How I work the 12 steps of Publish & Flourish: An interview with Tara Gray
Tara Gray, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Criminal Justice and founding director of the Teaching Academy at New Mexico State University. She has published more than 30 articles and three books including Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar.
Here Gray discusses how she incorporates her 12 steps to Publish & Flourish into her own writing process.
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…