Being published can help your career

Tenure and hiring committees always look favorably upon seeing your list of published articles. TFS can help you expand or start your "published in" list

How to Become a Contributing TFS Author

A steady flow of teaching and learning improvement ideas helps us help part-time and adjunct faculty to improve their teaching knowledge and skills. Being published can help your career advance.

Your Brilliant Idea and Quick Tip submissions are encouraged and appreciated. Become part of this audacious effort to improve teaching and learning by being chosen as a TFS contributing author.

Although TFS accepts articles, and tips throughout the year.

Ideas and Tip are accepted for review and possible publication at anytime through out the year for review for immediate publication but submission labeled as "immediate" will not be considered as an entry into the Brilliant Ideas Contest. Next issue submission dates for 2009-10 are Aug. 15, Sept. 15, Oct. 15, Nov. 15 and Jan. 15, 2009.

Guidelines for writing and submitting
(Very Important)

Label your article ubmission document name starting with you last name. For example if I sumitted a file it should look like this shrawder_teachingtip.doc. We prefer doc. docx. and rtf. formated text files attached to an email message. Email to jack@teachingforsuccess.com

Format: Article ubmissions should be from 600-2400 words and must be submitted electronically as an attached .rtf or .doc text files attached to an e-mail. Short or "QuickTips" are needed and accepted. These maybe 100 to 600 words or so in length.

Subject line of your e-mail message should read: "TFS article submission"

Style hints: Keep it upbeat, engaging and positive; we prefer addressing the reader as "you"; bullet lists are encouraged. Keep paragraphs short this in an online publication. Use subheads to keep readers interested. The bottom line the goals is to help a part-time, adjunct or full-time faculty to improve theiri teachign and give them practical ideas and steps on how they can impact teaching learning.

E-mail All Submissions to: jack@teachingforsuccess.com

Copyright Transfer—Please Read Carefully

Due to the complexities and legalities of today's publishing paper and electronic environments, Pentronics Publishing must ask that the copyright be transferred to Pentronics Publishing.

We reserve the right to include accepted articles in a summary or "best of" compilation of TFS ideas or other electronic or paper publications of Teaching For Success or Pentronics Publishing. By submitting an idea to Teaching For Success or Pentronics Publishing and when your submission is accepted for publication, you are agreeing to assign the copyright of this submission to Pentronics Publishing.

Upon request we will send you an e-mail receipt when your submission is received restating the copyright transfer policy for your inspection and approval.

Submission Receipt

We want you to know that your submission has arrived. Therefore, we will send you an e-mail receipt usually within 2 business days of receiving your submission.

If you don't receive this confirmation, please resend the message or call us at 800-757-1183

Articles and Tip are accepted at anytime through out the year for review for immediate publication but submission labeled as "immediate" will not be considered as an entry into the Brilliant Ideas Contest.

TFS Author Benefits: Become a "Partner Author"

We recognize that authors are helping TFS by submitting articles and tips, and we want to help our "partner" authors by giving them publicity and confirmation of being published. I want to do everything that we can reasonably do to help authors with their career growth.

If you let me know who your department head and chief academic officers as well as your college's publicity person, I will send them an announcement especially if you win the contest, but also in the case you don't but are selected for publication in an upcoming issue. 

I also send each published author the Adobe Acrobat file of the issue that their articles appears so that they can print or email either the entire issue or the page on which their article appears.

Finally, I want to add a short bio and a portrait photo of authors who contribute several times to the Author Info section of the teaching for success web site. 

Thanks. I look forward to reviewing your submissions and possibly adding your name to the TFS Partner Author group.

Jack H. Shrawder, Publisher.

The Experienced and Diverse
TFSs Partner Author Group

• Dr. Andrei Aleinikov, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and International Academy of Genius, Monterey, California
• Mr. Dave Bequette, Adjunct Faculty, Butte College, California
• Ms. Vicki Brooks, Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College, Missouri
• Dr. Francine Armenth-Brothers, Heartland Community College, Normal, Illinois
• Ms. Lynette G. Esposito, Adjunct Professor, Burlington County College, New Jersey
• Ms. Judy Grigg Hansen, College of Southern Idaho, Idaho
• Ms. Angela Payne, Assistant Professor of Office Administration, Southwest Community College, Memphis, Tennessee
• Mr. Ted Rachofsky, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
• Dr. Howard Rosenthal, Saint Louis Community College, Missouri
• Dr. Brian R. Shmaefsky, Lone Star College – Kingwood, Texas
• Ms. Barbara J. Weiner, M.S., MT(ASCP, FL BCLP), CLS(NCA) TFS Partner Editor, DL and Web Design, Florida
• Mr. Stuart Tichenor, Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee, Oklahoma
• Mr. John Reich, Genesee Community College, New York