Writing Textbook Supplements

The Role of the Textbook Writing Research

This paper reviews the potential role of writing textbooks in increasing our understanding of academic writing. It argues that this role is underappreciated for several reasons. These include the dampening effects of existing discoursal and social-constructionist accounts of introductory college textbooks, a reluctance to look beyond the ostensible student audience, and a diffidence in recogniz...

An author's philosophy of physiology textbook writing.

Then I thought of another answer almost as facetious as the first. This was that many textbooks of medical physiology had become very discursive, written primarily by teachers of physiology for other teachers of physiology, and written in language understood by other teachers but not easily understood by the basic student of medical physiology. This, I am afraid, is a failing of all of us in me...

Implementing Recommendations for Introductory Biology by Writing a New Textbook

We redesigned the undergraduate introductory biology course by writing a new textbook (Integrating Concepts in Biology [ICB]) that follows first principles of learning. Our approach emphasizes primary data interpretation and the utility of mathematics in biology, while de-emphasizing memorization. This redesign divides biology into five big ideas (information, evolution, cells, emergent propert...

A Textbook of Gynæcology

Previous editions of this book were well received by both the students and gynsecologists for whom they were meant. The present edition shows a vast improvement in the details of the matters dealt with previously as well as in the inclusion of the recent developments of the subject. Few textbooks contain a better or more exact description of the anatomy of the female genitalia than what is give...

Textbook of Ophthalmology