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    How To Plan A Book
    How To Plan A Book
    How To Plan A Book
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    How To Plan A Book

    By Lindsay Clandfield

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    Who better to write about planning a coursebook than Lindsay Clandfield, lead author of the award-winning Global series, and member of the author team for the successful Straightforward series? Lindsay describes different approaches to Coursebook planning, including his own highly individual method of writing different elements of a course on colour-coded Post-it notes, and moving them around until he’s happy with the result.
    Throughout this practical book, Lindsay constantly draws on his own experience, resulting in an engaging account of a potentially dry subject. Starting with an outline of different types of syllabus, Lindsay compares traditional and modern approaches, goes into more detail about what is involved in building a syllabus and sets up practical tasks which guide the reader through the thinking process involved in planning a syllabus. In his characteristically upbeat way, Lindsay ends his book with a look into the future, and makes the point that whatever the format of delivery, courses will still require planning.
    This book forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The books are designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherELT Teacher 2 Writer
    Release dateMar 22, 2015
    ISBN9781310571756
    How To Plan A Book
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    Lindsay Clandfield

    Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings are co-founders of the round, a collective of authors and creatives in language teaching materials. The round's first book on Smashwords is 52 - a year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom.

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      How To Plan A Book - Lindsay Clandfield

      HOW TO

      PLAN A BOOK

      Lindsay Clandfield

      TRAINING COURSE FOR ELT WRITERS

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      How To Plan A Book

      By Lindsay Clandfield

      © 2013 ELT Teacher 2 Writer

      First published 2013. Updated 2020.

      www.eltteacher2writer.co.uk

      Contents

      About The Author

      1 Aims

      2 What Goes In A Book?

      3 Different Kinds Of Syllabus

      4 Planning The Content Of A Coursebook Syllabus

      5 Tradition And Dilemmas In Syllabus Design

      6 What Else Affects Syllabus Design?

      7 Market-Specific Books

      8 Syllabus-Building

      9 Planning Individual Units Or Lessons

      10 Activity Sequences

      11 Typical Difficulties In Unit And Syllabus Writing

      12 Publishers And Co-Authors

      13 Planning A Unit Of A Book

      14 Planning The Book Of The Future

      15 Glossary

      16 Task Commentary

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      About The Author

      I’m a teacher, teacher trainer and international author from Canada. Over the past fifteen years I’ve worked on many coursebook projects. I was the lead author on the multiple-award winning Global series, and was on the author team for Straightforward (both published by Macmillan). My latest series is Studio, by Helbling Languages (2019). As well as coursebook writing, I’ve been involved in other writing projects. I’m the series editor for the Delta Teacher Development Series and I’ve written three methodology books (Teaching Online, Dealing with Difficulties with Delta, and Interaction Online with Cambridge

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