Garland Science

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Garland Science welcomes your ideas for new books. Preparing a proposal for evaluation is an important stage in developing your project, and in order to ensure that Garland Science Publishing can carefully assess the merits of your idea and arrive at a publishing decision, we recommend that your proposal include the following key elements: PROSPECTUS A prospectus should give a convincing rationale for the project, a strategic plan for its development, and a clear focus on its targeted market. You should explain why you want to undertake the project and address these questions: 1. THE MARKET -What is the level (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, graduate/medical/professional)? -What kind of students take the course? Are they primarily majors, non-majors, or both? -What trends (changes in enrollments, course content, or use of pedagogical/ancillary materials) are likely to affect the development and marketing of your project? -Are there additional markets (library, trade, professional) for your project? 2. THE COMPETITION -What are their strengths and weaknesses? - 3. THE CONTENTS -What distinctive approaches to topic coverage will your project have? -What plans do you have for the front matter and back matter? 4. THE FORMAT -What are your plans for the art program —photographs and line drawings? -What hardware and software do you plan to use to prepare your manuscript? 5. THE PEDAGOGY -How will it be implemented? -What features-boxes, cases, readings, photo essays or other pedagogical elements-do you plan? 6. SUPPLEMENTS -How will the ancillary package differ from those offered by key competitors? 7. THE SCHEDULE -When do you anticipate delivering completed production-ready manuscript? 8. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION - ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS Please provide a table of contents for the project. Describe the coverage of each chapter, citing topics that will be unique to your book. An annotated table of contents will enable us to understand the organizational logic and pedagogical structure. SAMPLE CHAPTERS AND LECTURE NOTES Sample chapters are the heart of the complete proposal. While the proposal and annotated table of contents reveal the thinking behind your conception of the book, the draft chapters will demonstrate their execution. If your book is based on lecture notes, please include them. We also would like to see all artwork that relates to the text. VITA What are your credentials: teaching and research experience, degrees and affiliations, prior publications, special qualifications, awards? SUBMITTING YOUR PROPOSAL TO GARLAND Please submit your proposal to Denise Schanck, Vice President, Garland Science Publishing, 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 or denise.schanck@taylorandfrancis.com

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