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How to register for an upcoming webinar:Members: You can participate in as many sessions as you'd like for free. To sign up, click the Register button below. Read Frequently Asked Questions About TAA Webinars Non-Members: Join TAA today and receive access to all of TAA's live webinars and 250+ presentations on demand for one full year. 2021 Spring Webinar SeriesWhy Your Journal Articles Are Confusing, and How IMRaD Can HelpDate: Thursday, March 11, 1-1:45 p.m. ET
Do you struggle to describe your research in writing? Like your crisp research vision inevitably devolves into a disorganized, confusing journal article? Let’s discuss a tool that can help—one with which you’re already familiar, but likely not familiar enough: journal article structure. In this 30-minute webinar + 15 minutes for Q&A, Thomas Deetjen, author of Published, explores the value of the Introduction, Methods, Results & Discussion—or IMRaD—journal article structure. For each IMRaD section, we’ll discuss:
The IMRaD structure is a powerful tool for translating your research into a succinct, clear, and interesting article that your audience will enjoy. I look forward to exploring with you how to do that. Learn more Are You Ready to Pursue Your Dream of Publication?Date: Wednesday, March 17, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET Open to Members and Non-Members. This presentation will be offered live only. It will not be available on demand.
If you are struggling with moving forward in your dream of publication, you need to join certified John Maxwell Team speaker, coach, and trainer, Eric J. Schmieder for this webinar on how to test your dream and move it forward to reality. With the right tools, a dream can be put to the test and pass. In this live, 60-minute session, Eric will cover the reasons people don’t identify their dreams of publication, go into a couple of ways to put your publishing dream to the test, and finally, offer you an opportunity to get your dream out of your head and onto paper (literally!) by participating in TAA's new writing accountability program, "Spring Your Writing Forward: Get a Month of Motivation in April". The deadline for signing up for April's session is Mar. 29. Your Textbook Isn't Being Revised. Now What?Date: Monday, April 5, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET Presenter: Donna Battista, VP of Content Strategy, Top Hat
In this webinar, Donna Battista, VP of Content Strategy at Top Hat, and previous Pearson Executive, will join us to help authors navigate this increasingly common challenge. She’ll provide guidance on requesting rights back, what to do when rights are reverted, and what options there are to make content available. This webinar will be packed with industry knowledge and best practices based on Donna’s extensive experience in the publishing industry. It’s a session you don’t want to miss! Learn more Effective Organization Strategies for Developing a Textbook ChapterDate: Wednesday, April 14, 2-3 p.m. ET
In this one-hour webinar, TAA's Membership Marketing Manager and author/co-author of several computer technology textbooks, Eric Schmieder, will share strategies for organizing your content at a chapter level in a way that defines your author style for content delivery. ![]() Adapted from content in TAA's Writing and Developing Your College Textbook: A Comprehensive Guide, 3e, Schmieder will focus on the organization of content into an effective table of contents through carefully crafted headings and then enhancing the sections with feature strands to engage the reader. Once you have applied these strategies to one chapter, simply rinse and repeat until all of the chapters come together for a finished textbook that exceeds your expectations. Learn more 2021 Spring Webinars - Watch On DemandTaxes & Authors: What You Should Know in 2021
While it is understandable that most writers would prefer to concentrate their time on their writing, writing is a business and you need to make sure you’re taking care of all of the tax deductions that you should be. Robert M. Pesce, a partner with Marcum LLP shares the basic tax information you should know as an author. Watch 2020 Fall Webinars - Watch On DemandWriting a Dissertation and Beyond: Tips & Tools for Launching and Maintaining Your Academic Writing Productivity
Seven Time Management Strategies to Begin, Keep Working On, and Complete Your Projects
Most of us have had the experience of finishing a project at the last minute or late, and not being proud of what we have accomplished. Maybe we just couldn’t seem to find the time to devote to the project or we were frequently interrupted. Procrastination is a term applied to putting things off until later, but what can we do about it? In this webinar, we explore 7 proven strategies for getting started, keeping at it, and finishing our projects. Watch Juggling Multiple Writing Projects…and Completing ALL of ThemPresenter: Christine Tulley, Professor of English and Founder and Director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Findlay Because of the time it takes to get an article or a book published, productive academics typically work on more than one writing project at a time. The challenge many faculty face is how to keep track of all of the pieces of each writing project and make sure each is completed to a final submission stage. In this 30-minute webinar (short but packed with powerful advice to provide you with more time for writing!), Christine Tulley, author of How Writing Faculty Write and career advice columnist for Inside Higher Education, shares how to develop and use a multiple writing project tracking system that logs all stages of all of the projects and schedules writing time for each to aid in multiple writing project management. Watch 2020 Spring Webinars - Watch On DemandA Crash Course in Creative Commons LicensingPresenter: Danielle S. Apfelbaum, Senior Assistant Librarian, Farmingdale State College, and Derek Stadler, Assistant Professor, LaGuardia Community College Revising Scholarly Manuscripts—Quickly and WellPresenter: Tara Gray, author of Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar ![]() Organization is the skeleton of a manuscript, its very structure. Get it right and the manuscript works. Get it wrong and it doesn’t. In this one-hour webinar, presented by Tara Gray, author of Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar, you will learn how to organize paragraphs around key or topic sentences and how to organize manuscripts around an “after-the-fact” or “reverse” outline. You will also learn how to solicit and use informal feedback effectively by asking just the right readers for feedback and by asking specific questions, such as, “What one place in the manuscript is least clear? Least organized? Least persuasive? Watch Drafting Scholarly Manuscripts—Quickly and WellPresenter: Tara Gray, author of Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar
An Editor’s View From Journal Article Submission to PublicationPresenter: Micki M. Caskey, Professor, Portland State University
Clear Academic Writing Across the DisciplinesPresenter: Caroline Eisner, Certified Professional Coach, Eisner Consulting LLC
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