Writing for educators : personal essays and practical advice

This book is for new faculty, graduate students, teachers, administrators, and other academics who want to write more clearly and have their work published. The essays focus on writing journal articles, dissertations, grants, edited books, and other writing in educational settings. The authors are e...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Bromley, Karen D'Angelo (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP, [2009]
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806618507
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-207-2
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 245 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Finding your voice. What? me write? six reasons to write for publication / James J. Carpenter
  • Finding ideas and developing the confidence to write for publication / Chris Pescatore
  • Writing-to-Learn in the process of researching / Maureen Boyd
  • Reading as a way to develop a writing identity / Nicholas Paley
  • Writing an article or dissertation. From idea to printed page / Marilyn Tallerico
  • Writing to be read: clarity and power in scholarly writing / C. Beth Burch
  • Creating a corpus: writing to shape practice / Beverly Rainforth
  • Nine notes from a novice: publishing a teaching idea / Margaret Golden
  • Writing with publication in mind / Joan Bouza Koster
  • Completing a dissertation in just over 2 years / Holly Hansen-Thomas
  • Four children and a dissertation / Sandi Graham
  • Reviews, revising, and editing. Surviving the review process: the good, the bad, and the ugly / Jenny Gordon
  • Rethink, rewrite, revise: mining the gold / Heather K. Sheridan-Thomas
  • Revising for successful publication / Mitch Rosenwald
  • Editing a book: nine questions and some answers / Karen Bromley
  • An editor's perspective on the importance of style / Jean Schmittau
  • Grant writing. Writing a grant proposal / Karen Bromley
  • Grant writing for teachers / Pat Krizan
  • The collaborative grant development process / Allison Alden
  • Other writing in educational settings. On-demand writing by administrators / Carol Stark
  • A principal's writing experiences / Doug Green
  • My surprising life as an author / Jo Malin.