In my first post in this series, I went over the criteria that should guide your decision on whether to try to write an academic book in the first place. I also explained the limitations of this ...

My phone pinged with a text from an old graduate-school friend who, like me, is now a professor. He had just heard that I signed a contract with Random House to write a “trade” book. Could I talk with ...

After a lengthy hiatus caused by other obligations, I am back with the third installment in my series of posts about how how to publish an academic book. In Part I, I summarized the criteria that can ...

Writing the first book is time-consuming. So, you may wonder, why should people still write one—especially if a book is not required for tenure at their institution? Many people may advise you to just ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marybeth Gasman writes about racism, philanthropy, HBCUs & faculty. Those who know me know I always encourage academics to write ...

Savor this—a passage of published prose written by a full professor at a major university, cited in Leonard Cassuto’s new book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter: [S]tudents’ production of texts ...

Gordon Rugg received funding from the Government Office of the East Midlands for some of the work reported in the article "Selection and use of elicitation techniques for education research". If ...