Rabu, 29 Juni 2011

8 step to Beginning write a text books


By Annisa

Writing a text books are faced most of teacher at some point in their career especially when they wish to go on next stage of their career. Some time this also because it isn’t available when they need one for a class.

And this is 8 steps to write a text book.

1. First step you must doing to write a text book is identifying the target reader. Ask what teachers and professors need in a textbook and what they like about the ones they already have.

2. Find what the problem and their pain poin around the topics of the text book to carry their interest and show how to solve those problems.

3. Research what other information for background and extra information in the text book to help the reader understand.

4. Outline your book. Create a table of contents and mock chapters so that you can see your book as a whole. Include an index and a glossary .

5. Beginning write each chapters of text book. Each topic is a section or paragraph of about 100 words. Include graphics and charts could help the reader understand materials text books.

6. Include activities and demonstrations for teachers to use in class.. A text books is the workshop version of written materials. What distinguishes it from other how-to books is the presence of practice sessions. You might include a word review and question sheet at the end of each chapter.

7. Get to edit you’re the text book. Just fix the grammar and the spelling

8. Keep the text interesting, simple and informative. Assume your text books reader knows nothing about your topic.