TAA Council member Michael Sullivan recently authored a new textbook entitled CALCULUS, Early Transcendentals. Published by W. H. Freeman and…
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:
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…
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…
Featured Member Ric Martini – A veteran textbook author’s insights on contracts, author collaboration & more
Frederic (“Ric”) Martini received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in comparative and functional anatomy for work on the pathophysiology of…
Applying the theory of experiential learning to textbook writing
Experiential learning, a four-stage cycle that accommodates four distinct types of learners, is the ideal way for people to learn.…