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Text and Academic
Authors Association Code of Ethics
ADOPTED JUNE 11, 1992
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Preamble
Textbook
Authors, as educators and communicators, acknowledge and adhere to
the ethical obligations of promoting the goals of academic writing
and publishing. As members of this profession, authors must promote
and defend the mutual responsibilities of the discipline in which
they write along with that of the publishers of their work. As members
of this organization, therefore, we commit ourselves to encouraging,
reinforcing, and protecting the highest levels of ethics within our
discipline, our profession, and the publishing industry.
A. Public/Readers
1. Textbook authors shall be dedicated to providing competent
subject matter about which they write, based upon the highest standards
of scholarship and research pertinent to their subject matter.
2. Textbook authors shall strive for the highest
standards of writing quality and shall endeavor to produce work
that is understandable, clear, and pedagogically sound.
3. Textbook authors shall present the information
in their text with accuracy and balance.
B. Academic Community
4. Textbook authors, or teams of authors, shall write with integrity,
following recognized principles and utilizing sound techniques.
5. Textbook authors shall accurately report and appropriately
give credit to other sources utilized in their work, including
authors quoted or whose ideas have been highly influential.
6. Textbook authors shall bear responsibility for material appearing
under their name, not permitting their name to appear on works
they did not write.
C. Discipline
7. Textbook authors shall respect the freedom of instructors
in choosing educational material. Moreover, textbook authors will
not participate in providing compensation to schools or instructors
for the adoption of their work.
8. Textbook authors shall continue to acquire, apply, and advance
knowledge by remaining current in their discipline.
9. Textbook authors shall not require their own published material
to be used when the primary purpose is personal profit.
D. Publisher
10. Textbook authors shall deal honestly with publishers, honor
their contracts and provide materials to publishers in a timely
manner.
11. Textbook authors shall expect publishers to treat authors
with fairness, honoring conditions in contracts, promptly paying
royalties, and acting timely on manuscripts.
12. Textbook authors shall provide to publishers a coherent,
prepared manuscript and shall expect in return publishers to provide
timely and competent review of manuscripts, making no substantive
changes in a manuscript without the author's permission.
13. Textbook authors shall avoid conflict of interest with other
authors when agreeing to review manuscripts for publication. Textbook
authors shall normally decline to review a manuscript when the
work, if published, would compete with the reviewer's own published
work.
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