Publish or Perish - The Educators Imperative: Strategies for Writing Effectively for Your Profession and Your School

Successfully translating thoughts and ideas into the printed word can seem daunting to even the most experienced educator. Step-by-step, author and scholar Allan A. Glatthorn guides education professionals through the basics of the writing process, empowering them with the tools to create and enhance their own professional submissions and writings. The down-to-earth, conversational tone helps to effectively convey and outline specific writing strategies for contributions to research journals, articles, op-ed pieces, manuscripts, literature reviews, theses, funding proposals, internal organizational writing.

Key features include:

• Finding a topic
• Correctly identifying your audience
• Choosing the appropriate forum
• Revising and editing
• Working with editors and publishers
• Maximizing use of the Internet and other technological tools

Allan A. Glatthorn taught writing for more than 25 years and was a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at East Carolina University. During his prolific 55-year teaching career, he authored more than 50 texts on writing and more than 30 professional books. In Publish or Perish--The Educator′s Imperative, he shared his wealth of knowledge and experience about professional publishing and the writing process, in hopes that his work would help readers achieve their own goals and imperatives.