March 21, 2022Academic Book Publishing: Tracking Revisions of Your Writing Projectby Jennie GoforthWe’ve all done it. You know, you’re working on a writing project and you have every intention of staying organized. But then, all of a sudden, you have a folder with 43 documents in it—all named “helpful” things like draft2.docx,…
February 1, 2022Academic Book Publishing: Reviewing Page Proofsby Jennie GoforthOur blog series on academic book publishing is chronicling each stage in the book production process. In this post, I discuss a process that happens near the end of production: reviewing page proofs. After a manuscript has been copyedited and…
January 18, 2022Academic Publishing: Diagrams, Photos, and Illustrationsby Jennie GoforthEveryone loves a good graphic, even (especially?) in academic writing. I’ve already written blog posts about creating effective data visualizations and tables, and in this post I’ll focus on other types of graphics that you might include in your publications on engaged learning. …
December 21, 2021Academic Book Publishing: Book Websites and Supplemental Resourcesby Jennie GoforthBook websites are a great way to share information about your book and help readers decide whether they want to purchase or download it. Having a stable URL to share with potential readers can be helpful as you market your…
November 16, 2021Academic Book Publishing: Indexingby Jennie GoforthIn today’s world, when we read so much content on-screen and can so easily use the “find” command, you might question whether an index is still necessary. The answer is yes (read on for why), and that means that once…
September 16, 2021Academic Publishing: Promoting Your Bookby Jennie GoforthOnce the publication date for your book is nearing, it’s time to think carefully about how you can help with promotion. Academic publishers do all they can to make sure your work will reach its intended readers, but they have…
August 19, 2021Academic Publishing: Creating Effective Tablesby Jennie GoforthI have a love/hate relationship with tables. I love when we can incorporate any type of visual into CEL publications, but I hate to see poorly designed or unnecessary tables in academic writing. When creating a table, you have to…
May 24, 2021Academic Book Publishing: Securing Permissionsby Jennie GoforthIn our recent blog post on understanding copyright and permissions, we outlined when you do and do not need to secure permission to reproduce someone else’s writing or artwork in your book. This blog post will take you through the…
May 17, 2021Academic Book Publishing: Understanding Permissionsby Jennie GoforthAll academic writing builds on previous research. As Healey, Matthews, and Cook-Sather state in Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, we are “creating and contributing to scholarly conversations—an ongoing dialogue … that involves people and our construction of…
March 4, 2021Four Steps to Better Data Visualizationsby Jennie GoforthIf you’ve collected data in your higher education research on engaged learning, chances are you’d like to present it to your readers in an effective, visually pleasing, and impactful way. The problem is that data visualization is a complex topic,…