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Perhaps you were persuaded by that column and agree that writing academic book reviews is an excellent way of making a contribution in service to the profession. If so, I thank you. But perhaps you ...
Other academics, particularly younger scholars, often ask me about how to get an academic book published. When I recently floated the idea of writing a series of blog posts about this issue ...
I spend enough writing time there that my two toddlers ... But there are a few rules of thumb that I believe apply to a wide range of academic books. First, it's important to be as clear as ...
of academic life—they have no choice but to aim for very small targets. Writing a first book, you may have in mind particular professors on a tenure committee; miss that mark and you may not ...
In January, Karin Wulf, a history professor at William and Mary, wrote an installment for her blog, Vast Early America, that promised to teach “How to Gut a (Scholarly) Book in 5 Almost-easy ...
Academic publisher Springer Nature ... s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, said the book wasn’t the most impressive feat of AI writing. “It is quite straightforward to take high-quality ...
All this said, to me a book is the writing, so it’s sort of like asking ... I can be moved by an intellectual or even academic work emotionally. Those works are labors of love too, in ...