How To Write An Ebook…
By
Ebooks and ESL/EFL/ESOL – what do they have in common? A lot!
One of the wonders of the internet and social media is the amount of useful information that you come in contact with. From one site, I found this wonderful link on writing an ebook by Jonathan Kranz. He calls his book, “The eBook eBook: How to Turn Your Expertise Into Magnetic Marketing Material”. Jonathan is the principal of Kranz Communications and the author of “Writing Copy for Dummies”.
Even more interesting is the fact that Jonathan has published his “Ebook Ebook” under the Creative Commons License and gives away free downloads.
“Ebook Ebook…” covers such topics as:
- What Will You Write About?
- Why You Need Conflict and How To Create It
- Organizing Your eBook Piece by Piece
- Getting the Word Out: A few thoughts
on promoting your ebook - 10 Practical Tips for Successful eBooks
- Your eBook Checklist
His writing style is crisp and clear with nuggets of humor woven in.
So what do writing ebooks have to do with ESOL/EFL/ESL teaching?
I see ebooks as a great tool for a teacher to write for her/his students and as a possible course long project for students, naturally about topic areas they know and keeping in mind their language level.
Take a look at Kranz’s Ebook Ebook and let me know what you think. How can you use ebook writing in your ESOL course? Write your thoughts and comments in the box below.
You may download his ebook about ebooks (for free and without registration) from this link: The eBook eBook: How to Turn Your Expertise Into Magnetic Marketing Material.
6 Comments
March 14th, 2010 at 17:02
Thank you for the kind words! My family is deeply involved in the teaching of English: my wife teaches at Boston College; my brother Eli teaches ESL in Vancouver; my mother taught ESL in NJ and is now a reference librarian.
I hope The eBook eBook proves useful to your readers and their students!
March 27th, 2010 at 09:06
Thanks Jonathan for your comment! Yes, teaching ESOL/ESL/EFL English is lots of fun. And thank you for your eBook ebook. It looks like it will be a great tool to help us helping our students achieve their language goals – AND – encouraging them in using all the various forms of new media
April 2nd, 2010 at 02:16
Hi Eileen,
Oh what a great piece. I wrote an ebook, my first, and only so-so 2 yrs ago. However, it opened up writing for me and I have only just now completed the first draft of what will be a physical as opposed to digital book. How great to hear from Jonathan Kranz and see that his extended family is involved in ESL as well.
What got you started in ESL? I’m curious….
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
Dating Expert and Online Dating Coach
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:20
April, glad you like the ebook and I was delighted to hear from Jonathan Kranz. His ebook has even greater value for me now!
I see you are a Dating Coach; we have to get together and see if there is a connection between Dating, Using Social Media and ESL / EFL / ESOL teachers and students….
April 23rd, 2010 at 01:53
Great article with some good ideas. I will have to check out the ebook you are talking about that helped you so much. I know I need help writing.
Mike
http://www.ColumbiaSafetyProducts.com
August 16th, 2010 at 01:40
The tongue tip can touch the lower teeth back when we speak the vowel ” [ə]“.
Does the tongue tip touch the lower teeth back when we say a “little bit” of vowel sound ” [ə]“？