Faculty Blog Round-Up: Writing Books
At the peak of summer, many faculty are in deep research mode, especially with longer projects, like books, that require the kind of travel or in-depth work they can’t schedule during the semester. Here’s an overview of the book-writing process from the inside
Dr. Crazy, an anonymous literature professor, is beginning to ponder her topic.
Anthropologist Auto Ethnographer is in the throes of research - research that goes to show why sometimes we just need the original print texts.
Flavia, an anonymous professor of renaissance literature, is substantially revising her dissertation - and has come to some interesting realizations about her book-in-progress. Check out the comments here, too.
Notorious Ph.D., a historian, is revising and ambivalent about her readers’ feedback.
Finally, John Holbo, a philosopher at National University in Singapore, has just published a book on Plato (with translation by Belle Waring). This post is interesting for two reasons: it’s an experiment in simultaneous free e-publishing with a print book for sale, as well as reminding us how the scholarly conversation doesn’t end with the book’s publication.
Posted by Laura Wimberley on July 24th, 2009 under Books, Faculty, Peer Review, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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Time: August 10, 2009, 5:34 pm
[...] Laura’s recent post about faculty book projects has me thinking about writing. Even though I’ve been at my job for over a year, I still feel lucky to have landed a tenure track position at an academic library that I truly enjoy. During my hiatus from the academic world between my time as an archaeologist and when I started library school, I hadn’t realized how much I missed research, and even writing. So I’m pleased to have a job in which research and writing are required. [...]
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