Contribute to the Text
Are you interested in writing a chapter on your discipline for Why Writing Works: Disciplinary Approaches to Composing Texts?
Email Dr. Amanda Bemer at amanda.bemer@smsu.edu to express your interest. Please include your name, contact information, disciplinary field, and reasons for wanting to contribute in the email.
For Disciplinary Contributors
Contributions are accepted based on a variety of factors, including your field (disciplines not yet represented would be prioritized; if a field is already covered in the text, any additional materials would have to prove useful), acceptance of the terms of the open textbook, and authors' ability to comply with the following steps.
To contribute, you will be asked to:
- Complete a series of prompts asking for your take on the background, values, and expectations related to writing and communication in your field (primarily written for an audience of students)
- Solicit a sample of good student writing in your discipline, obtain permission from the student for its use, and annotate it for its disciplinary qualities
- Identify a sample of (preferably) published research writing in your field that demonstrates the disciplinary qualities you identified; acquire copyright permission; and once cleared, annotate the sample for those disciplinary qualities.
You might also be asked to discuss your answers to the prompts on video or provide audio narration to the annotated samples. Participation in video or audio narration is optional.
By writing for the open textbook, you are agreeing that you understand that all written and annotated materials and audio and visual components will be open access materials under a Creative Commons license and are willing to sign further documentation regarding this.
This open textbook has Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. This means that others can remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Your contribution may or may not be selected to be published upon review by the editorial staff. Contributions are edited for content and clarity by the editorial staff.