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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, we run a Brilliant Ideas Contest every spring. It only takes a few minutes…write about an idea you tried and found successful in your class or online course. Keep it concise, interesting, and practical and you could be this Contest's winner and earn $50.
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.
Brilliant Ideas Contest Dates: April 15 through June 30. 2008
Announcing June 08, Brilliant Ideas Contest Winners
1. Full Length Brilliant Idea Winner
Congratulations goes to:
Kay Rooff-Steffen, TFS Partner Author,
Chair, Department of Humanities
Muscatine Community College,
Eastern Iowa Community College District, Muscatine, Iowa
Brilliant Idea: "How to Quickly Move from Strangers to a Learning Community"
This article will appear in Vol. 19. No. 4 of Teaching For Success due out by the end of July.
Congratulations Kay, a great idea and well-written article!
2. Quick Tip Winner
Congratulations goes to:
Barbara J. Weiner, M.S., MT(ASCP, FL BCLP), CLS(NCA);
TFS Partner Editor, DL and Technology
Melbourne, Florida
Quick Tip: "Mystery Guest, Sign In Please"
This article will appear in Vol. 19. No. 4 of Teaching For Success due out by the end of July.
Congratulations Barbara, a nicely penned and wonderfully creative tip!
Two Categories and Two Winners
- Quick Tip: Length 300 words maximum, Cash Prize $25
- Brilliant Idea: Length 600 words maximum, Cash Prize $50
Submission Deadline. All Brilliant Ideas Contest submissions must be received by June 30th to be considered in the spring contest.
Guidelines for writing and submitting (Very Important)
Label or otherwise indicate clearly that the particular submission is a Brilliant Idea Contest entry. Indicating the contest status clearly will help us differentiate your submission from those we receive for immediate publication consideration.
Format: Contest submissions should be no longer than 600 words and must be submitted electronically as an attached .rtf or .doc text files attached to an e-mail.
Subject line of your e-mail message should read: "Brilliant Ideas"
Style hints: Keep it upbeat and positive; it's OK to use "you"; bullet lists are encouraged. Keep paragraphs short this in an online publication. Use subheads to keep readers interested.
Eligibility: All submissions to a Super Ideas contest will be eligible for publication.
Winners will notified after July 1. Winning Brilliant Ideas and Quick Tips will be published in Issue No. 4 or 5. Winners will receive a printed copy of the TFS issue in which their idea/tip appears.
E-mail All Contest and Immediate Submissions to: contest@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.
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 whether for the Contest or Immediate Publication 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.
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 website.
Thanks. I look forward to reviewing your submissions,
Jack H. Shrawder, Publisher.
TFS 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
- Ms. Kay Rooff-Steffen, department coordinator of humanities at Eastern Iowa Community College District, Muscatine campus, Iowa
- 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
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