Starting with the first edition, physical geography textbook author Robert Christopherson developed an editorial style guide specific to his books.…
3 Tips to succeeding as a textbook author
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…