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So, You Want To Write A Textbook: One Author's Experience, David A. Rees
So, You Want To Write A Textbook: One Author's Experience, David A. Rees
Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology
Almost from the time I began teaching I wanted to write a textbook. I always held back, though, because I didn't know how to proceed, and because I thought I would fail--after all I really did not think I had the ability to write a textbook. Now, I have signed a contract to write an Intermediate Accounting textbook for South-Western Publishing Company and I was surprised at how easy preparing the proposal and selling the idea to South-Western really was. This paper is written for the purpose of acquainting aspiring textbook authors of the opportunities and the process of authoring …