Book Proposals

 

The purpose of a proposal is to provide the editor and the reviewers with an overview of your project. It is important that you be aware of the context in which the book will flourish (the market) as well as aspects of the pedagogical strategy which will make your book successful for us and for the student and instructors who are the end users. Authors under contract submitting manuscripts should see our Author Manuscript Submission Guidelines.

 

Overview

You

Provide us with a brief outline of your background and experience as would apply to you as an author of this text. A brief (two or three sentence) biography would be sufficient.

 

Market
An overview of the market, different approach to the subject, and the major books which define those segments.

Example: There are three major approaches to teaching Latin. The traditional grammatical approach is best defined by Wheelock’s Latin. The reading approach, or natural approach, uses an inductive method to have students reading Latin early and then inferring grammar as a result. Both Orberg and the Cambridge series.... Thirdly, is intensive Latin, best defined by ….  This book proposes is designed to use the traditional grammatical approach.

 

Description

A brief description including the book’s primary strategy and the course(s) for which this book appropriate? Include length of the course, level, prerequisites, and the approach.

Example: The book, First Year Latin, is designed for the first two semesters of the freshman college course taught in Classics departments and taken by students who have had no previous Latin courses. It uses the traditional grammatical approach, with an aim of having the student short excerpts in original Latin by such authors as Caesar by the end of the second semester.

 

Strengths and Shortcomings
The strengths and shortcomings of this book in the course for which it is appropriate, especially as compared to the books that are most prominent in that segment of the market?

Describe Your text

Order of Presentation. A table of contents and a statement on the ordering of it.

Chapter level pedagogy. How you intend to include or handle such matters as vocabulary, examples, exercises, end of chapter material, etc. 

Proposed length in book pages.

Art and illustrations you propose.

Ancillary materials you would include.

Schedule. Should a publisher undertake the project, your estimated schedule.

Send proposals to me, Ron Pullins, via email.  I look forward to reading them.