Franklin H. Silverman

Silverman provides graduate students who intend to pursue a career in academia and tenure-track junior faculty with candid information about developing an adequate publication record. The book also provides graduate students, tenured faculty, and others with information they need to maximize the likelihood of having their articles accepted for publication by peer-reviewed professional, scientific, and scholarly journals. The focus throughout is on how editorial boards and tenure committees tend to function rather than on how they are supposed to function. Anyone dealing with academic publishing will find this book an indispensable resource. Topics dealt with include coping with the fear of writing for publication, options for scholarly publishing, identifying ideal publishing-for-tenure projects, understanding and coping successfully with peer review process, finding the time to write scholarly publications, and standards for writing and organizing scholarly articles for print and electronic journals. It also covers securing permission to include copyrighted material in your work that does not fall under the doctrine of fair use, submission strategies for getting articles published in academically-respectable journals, and gray area plagiarism and other breaches of academic ethics. It shows how to prepare the publication section of a promotion and tenure application. It offers advice on finding funding for beginning scholars and publishing options for surviving post-tenure reviews. Lastly, the book gives practical advice on coping with manuscript rejection.

Publishing for Tenure and Beyond

As the publishing industry evolves and self-publishing becomes more common, many guides have sprung up to help authors through the process; Silverman aims his at fellow academics who are interested in self-publishing textbooks. In addition to general information (the benefits and risks of self-publishing, how it works, technical details, and market

A Practical Guide to Successful--and Respectable--self-publishing

Self-publishing Textbooks and Instructional Materials

Lynda Miller

The fifth edition of Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders uses detailed illustrations and easy-to-read text to introduce the broad range of topics in the field. Its contents provide a clear organizational structure in five sections:Communication and Communication DisordersLanguage Development and DisordersSpeech DisordersHearing DisordersThe Profession of Communication Sciences and DisordersNew to the fifth edition:The informal writing style makes the content more readable and easier to grasp. This is especially helpful for students encountering most of these topics for the first time.The content can be covered in one semester.Sections have been added on assessing voice and adult neurogenic disorders.Information on diversity and multicultural issues has been updated and expanded.This textbook now discusses the impact of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-5) on the field of communication sciences and disorders, especially as it affects the communication needs of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).Also included in this edition is a description of how evidence-based practices have emerged to guide clinicians providing services to clients with communication disorders.Embedded quick response codes (QR), take the reader directly to the relevant videos and websites.All the chapters have been thoroughly updated, revised, and reorganized.All references have been completely updated.

Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders

There are many things faculty can do to enhance students' judgments of the quality of their teaching. This book discusses them, along with the ways that tenure committees judge teaching adequacy. Graduate students, junior faculty, and even tenured faculty will find the practical information they need to teach effectively and maximize their student ratings.

Strategies for Maximizing Your Student Ratings

Teaching for Tenure and Beyond

*HA18, Communication for the Speechless, 3/e, Franklin H. Silverman(Marquette University), 18487-9, 384 pp., 6 x 9, 0-133-10954-2, paperbound, 1995, $34.50nk, August?*/This bookUs primary goal is preparing students for clinical work with persons who are severely communicatively impaired. It provides a full set of strategies and devices for working with the communicatively impaired, and teaches methods for selecting those most appropriate to the individual client.

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