A revised and expanded edition of this book is now available. See Writing and Developing Your College Textbook, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Textbook Authorship and Higher Education Publishing, by Mary Ellen Lepionka (Atlantic Path Publishing, 2008). The second edition includes two new chapters on academic publishing models and the use of learning objectives in textbook packages. New examples, links, and models have been added or updated in every chapter. The second edition also features an expanded Glossary of publishing terms.

Writing and Developing Your College Textbook

Education & Teaching

Mary Ellen Lepionka

Higher & Continuing Education

Atlantic Path Publishing

Writing and Developing College Textbook Supplements is a practical guide for creating instructional materials to accompany textbooks and support courses of study. It provides an introduction to publishing industry standards and best practices for print and electronic products and content, including instructor's manuals, annotated editions, test banks, study guides, readers, lab manuals, transparency sets, audios and videos, multimedia, learning objects, web sites, e-texts, and online courses. Written by an expert development editor in higher education publishing and the author of Writing and Developing Your College Textbook (Atlantic Path Publishing, 2003: ISBN 0-9728164-0-2).

Writing and Developing College Textbook Supplements

A practical guide to successful--and respectable--self publishing. For academic authors, college instructors, education writers, and curriculum developers. By Franklin H. Silverman, a college professor and author of 14 books in his field and on academic authoring. With a Foreword by Dan Poynter of ParaPublishing, foremost authority on self-publishing and author of The Self-Publishing Manual, 14th edition. Other forewords by Ronald Pynn, Executive Director of the Text and Academic Authors Association, and John Vivian, textbook author and President of the Society of Academic Authors.

Self-Publishing Textbooks and Instructional Materials

Politics & Social Sciences

Silverman, Franklin H.

Poynter, Dan.

Social Sciences

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