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There's still time to register
for the 24th Annual
TAA Conference
"Let Your Writing Soar!" Learn from and network with your textbook and academic author peers and industry leaders by participating in sessions, roundtable discussions, and networking events at the 2011 TAA Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 24-25 at the Hotel Albuquerque.
June 23 Workshop:
Writing and Publishing Your
Scholarly Journal Article
by Felicia Moore Mensah
Learn both practical support for writing and strategies for publishing in academic venues.
Listen to a preview!
Keynote Speaker: Robert Christopherson, author of textbook, Geosystems, "Geo-primer: Enchantment, TAA, and Albuquerque"
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Larson writes 'new type of textbook' and you can too
Mathematics textbook author Ron Larson has written Math And You, the first book in a new series of books he is calling "AndYou.com." The goal of Math And You, said Larson, is to show students who might have low math confidence that they can use the power of math to analyze problems in real life. Although inexpensive print versions will be offered, the book is free online at www.mathandyou.com
The book's website features social interactivity with the ability to post comments on exercises and share pages of the book on Facebook and Twitter. All 10 chapters will be available by September 1. Chapter one is now available. To enable them to make the book available free online, the website will be financed by advertisements, he said.
Larson is seeking authors for other books in the series in the fields of writing, accounting, economics, art, psychology and more. Visit www.andyou.com for more information.
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Library honors author with reception
By Dionne Soares Palmer
More than fifty people gathered at the Hillsborough Community College Ybor City Campus Library on April 13, 2011 to celebrate the publication of Professor Jose Carmona's edited volume, Language Teaching and Learning in ESL Education: Current Issues, Collaborations, and Practice.
Attendees of the late morning reception included faculty, administration, students, and community members. In addition, some of Carmona's former colleagues made the two-hour drive from Daytona Beach to attend the event. Many of the contributing authors for the book live in countries around the globe and were unable to attend.
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2012 TAA Conference Committee seeks ideas, themes
The 2012 TAA Conference Committee is seeking input for the association's 25th Annual Conference in New Orleans, June 8-9, 2012.
Please send your ideas and suggestions for themes and speakers to Conference Chair
Mary Kay Switzer by July 1.
The 2012 TAA Conference will mark the association's 25th anniversary.
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Morfaw awarded $750 TAA Publication Grant
John Morfaw has been awarded a $750 TAA Publication Grant to fund book production costs for his new book, Project Sustainability: Strategies, Processes and Plans, to be published by iUniverse Publishers in May 2011.
The funds will be used to pay for the book's production services including editorial evaluation, developmental editing, proofreading, professional indexing and copyright registration.
"I am very excited with the very generous publishing grant offered to me by the Text and Academic Authors Association to facilitate the publication of my book," said Morfaw.
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Workshop for writers on publishing process, June 17-18
Three publishing professionals will present a two-day publishing workshop June 17-18 for writers working in fiction or nonfiction.
David Emblidge, Julie Michaels and Nina Ryan will give an overview of the publishing process as seen from authors' and publishers' viewpoints, including where to sell your work and how to negotiate a publishing contract, followed by one-on-one consultations.
The workshop will be held at The Mount, Edith Wharton's estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. Cost: $275. For more information, visit http://EdithWharton.org
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Boost your writing power and productivity
Joanne Cooper and Dannelle Stevens preview their conference presentation, "Five Key Strategies to Boost Writing Power and Productivity" on TAA's blogtalkradio show.
Further boost your summer writing productivity with these three TAA podcasts! Summer Writing 101: How to Avoid the Biggest Mistakes Academic Writers Make During the Summer Term Kicking It Out the Door: How to (Finally) Submit Your First Journal Article First-Time Authors: An Inside Look at Journal Publishing Listen to 50+ TAA podcasts |
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BOOK REVIEWS:
Writing Successful Textbooks by Anthony Haynes
Reviewed by Irina Weisblat, Ed.D.
Anthony Haynes practices what he preaches. His Writing Successful Textbooks, published in 2001, is a constructive, specific, and inspiring book. It meets all six requirements of a successful textbook that Haynes identifies for aspiring authors. Haynes makes it perfectly clear what he means by success - success translates into the bottom line.
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Faculty Fables: A Campy Exposé by Gerald Stone
Reviewed by Ron Pynn
I am not Fenwick Pettipotter, I swear I'm not. Well, maybe just a little I am. I more resemble Dr. Wanda Funderbinder for whom tenure loomed large and choices had to be made. These are just two of the characters in Gerald Stone's Faculty Fables: A Campy Exposé (Chautauqua Press, 2011). There are more, many, many more, characters in Stone's delightful and amusing romp through the halls of academia. In Faculty Fables you will find them all: faculty members, students, and administrators; Stone spares no one with his humor. All are here with their glorious idiosyncratic eccentricities. And anyone who has ever graced a college campus will recognize traits in faculty, students, and administrators we have encountered. Why, we might even see a bit of ourselves in these pages!
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