I may be only a doctoral student, but I have already started my career as freelance educational writer. I have been hired by an online test prep organization. I am writing a test prep study guide book for practical nursing along with writing a study book for another online company that will entail a book about Homer’s Illiad. The Homer study book is going to be about the people and places of this story.
I am still in the research process for both of these projects. I am remembering all the skills that all my teachers from even the earliest days have taught me in writing. As a writer it is more than just putting your words on paper, but it really does matter about all the mechanics that your past teachers have drilled into you in all those English and composition classes from your formative years.
In writing these two projects I am finding out that all those teachers are right. Writers really do need to pay attention to grammar and punctuation along with choosing the right words and making sure that you are writing complete thoughts for whatever kind of writing projects you, the writer, are working on at this time.
I am finding out I still have research to do and can not only rely on memory especially when trying to explain certain aspects of nursing and literature based topics. We might think we remember what we learned but it does not hurt to review and continue reading or even re-reading some material or old lecture notes. The one skill that is working for me that I learned a long time ago is the skill of outlining for this skill is really helping me stay organized as the teachers told us over the years.
Other skills that is helping me to write these two projects is simply following the SQ3R study method which is using the skills from surveying that includes skimming material in looking for pieces of information that could be important to the work. The second skill of questioning is letting forming questions that could go along with these projects that I am writing. The last three skills of this method is reading, reviewing and revising what I am working on for the projects. Writing does take time and practice to get it right even if you are just writing for fun.
In review writing a study book entails putting all your skills that you have studied over the years will help you a lot. All your teachers from the past have taught you these skills and it is up to us to use the skills in ways that we find applicable to what what we are working on presently whether technical or creative in nature.
Rules to follow
1. Remember your grammar and punctuation skills.
2. Look for the right word or words that you need.
3. Remember to be concise and use the KISS method (you know what this means).
4. Write to learn and have fun in what you are writing.
This is an article not to be meant as a technical manual for writing a study book but that may be an idea for an article later.
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wow, that is a great niche!
I think you will have great satisfaction to know that you are helping the young students to become great nurses.
It is a challenge but I am really liking it even though I keep changing things.
Great start, I am collecting a bunch of the online tools and writing some short text right now to produce a short help book for the non-native writers to help them write tiny better.
I hope to make something out of it soon.
Writing a study book is most difficult job in modern age but hose who know how to write a book do not feel any type of problem in writing book for study.
Most important: to write a good book, you need a good idea. No one wants to read a book without an idea, no matter how well written it may be. Always start with something to say.
But let’s look at the practical aspect—how do you actually write a book?
It turns out it’s not that difficult. You basically work with the time-and-money concept, where you break down exactly what you need to accomplish the desired goal. How much is required?
However, most of us aren’t actually able to write a decent book in just 60 days. This is because writing a book is different from journal writing or blog post writing. Instead of just keeping your head down and pressing on, you need to constantly consider the overall arc and structure. Before you have a finished product you can be proud of, you’ll likely need to do major revisions along the way or at some point afterward.
Despite the need to think about structure, it’s also important to keep moving along however you can. One tip: don’t try to write a perfect Chapter 1, then a perfect Chapter 2, and so on.
If you’re talented enough to do that, great. But many writers find it much easier to write a detailed outline first, then sketch out as many notes as possible for each chapter. When you get stuck, move on to another chapter. This helps you to get closer to your word count goal, which is the primary target in the beginning.