View the over 200 college textbook supplements John has written

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Download the Detailed Table of Contents and first two chapters for free

Read the Detailed Table of Contents and first two chapters for free online

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About John Soares

John Soares, author of Writing College Textbook Supplements

John Soares left college teaching in 1994 to engage in the lucrative career of supplement writing. Since then he has written over 200 supplements (also called ancillaries and instructional materials) for college textbooks. His major clients have included Pearson Education (Prentice Hall, Benjamin Cummings, Allyn & Bacon), Cengage Learning (Wadsworth, Houghton Mifflin, Brooks-Cole), HarperCollins, and McGraw-Hill. He is a member of the Text and Academic Authors Association.

John taught American government, international relations, and politics of developing nations at Butte College and Shasta College from 1990 to 1994. His professional work for college textbook publishers includes creating test banks, instructor’s manuals, student study guides, student companion sites, lecture outlines, educational booklets, PowerPoint ™ presentations, Internet exercises, article exercises, transparencies, video scripts, portions of textbooks, copyediting, proofreading, copywriting for publisher websites, and much more.

John is also an outdoors writer. He's written two hiking guides covering trails in Northern California, in addition to writing over 100 newspaper and magazine articles.

John holds a B. S. degree in biochemistry from the University of California at Davis (highest honors) and he earned a M. A. degree in political science from UC Davis. He has also taken coursework in history, geography, and earth sciences.

John lives near Mount Shasta in northern California.

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TIP #1

What to send to editors:

  1. resumé
  2. list of skills and accommplishments
  3. written samples--test questions, lecture outlines, in-class exercises

Details in Chapter 3, Getting the Assignment

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Download the Detailed Table of Contents and first two chapters for free

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View the over 200 college textbook supplements John has written.

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TIP #2

Getting More Work

Here's how to win more assignments from an editor:

  1. Be reliable
  2. Do a great job
  3. Ask for more work on a regular basis
  4. Understand the cycles of the textbook publishing industry

See Chapter 7, Getting More Work

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Questions? Contact John at:

johnsoares99@yahoo.com

John Soares
PO Box 1600
Mount Shasta, CA 96067


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