The WVU Teaching and Learning Center is pleased to present the following TAA workshop as part of the Center's commitment to supporting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). We welcome instructors and graduate students across all WVU campuses. Please Share!
Wednesday, April 29th 2026
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Zoom
Please Register
Publish & Flourish: A workshop from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association
Publish in better journals and write winning grants. Triple your productivity. Get glowing reviews. Write prose that is clearer, better organized, and more compelling.
Many grant, book, and journal writers are educated at the School of Hard Knocks, but it’s not the only school, or even the best. Even when you can't work harder, there are important ways to work smarter. Much is known about how to become a better academic writer–and anybody can.
Workshop participants who followed the steps in this workshop were studied and 95%
of almost 100 participants reported that their writing improved. The average participant
also increased the number of grant proposals and manuscripts submitted from a rate
of two per year to nearly six. You can too. Ten elegantly simple steps will show
you how.
What participants say:
I decided to try these steps on a paper I had been trying to put together for five years. Four weeks later, the paper is out for review.
The last two manuscripts I submitted were accepted without revisions! I attribute my success to the steps I learned from this workshop.
Workshop Presenter:
Tara Gray serves as associate provost for faculty development at New Mexico State
University (NMSU), with criminal justice as her tenure home. She has published
50 scholarly works, including four books. Her books include Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. She has been honored at New Mexico State and nationally
with ten awards for teaching, scholarship or service. Dr. Gray has presented faculty
development workshops to thousands of participants at more than 120 venues, in
36 states, and eight countries. Workshop participants report that Dr. Gray is “spirited,
entertaining, and informative—she’s anything but gray!”
About TAA:
Textbook and Academic Authors (TAA) is co-sponsoring this workshop. Participants register through TAA and receive, courtesy of TAA, a one-year TAA membership and a Kindle copy of the book, Publish & Flourish. TAA is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) that provides writing resources and grants to academic authors.
Wednesday, April 29th 2026
- 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Zoom
- Please Register