Seldom do readers have an opportunity to see inside the worlds of other writers. This makes "It Works for Me: Becoming a Publishing Scholar/Researcher" very special. The contributors to this book are inviting us to visit their private worlds. Before you begin exploring their worlds, think about your own world of scholarship, and sort out the topics that you find the most exciting. This reflection will prepare you to do more than visit these other worlds; once inside each world, you want to immediately look around and take something back with you. Knowing your passions in advance will enable...

The authors' purpose in this seventh book in the "It Works for Me" series is to demonstrate that "everyone possesses creative talent, though it may be latent in some and difficult to bring out in others. It's not just a talent possessed by artists and engineers, mind you, but everyone." Furthermore, "Creative people have figured out consciously or un- that a small seed of creativity can be made to grow by having the proper environment and a minimal set of skills. And people can be taught or self-taught this process." The authors/editors also believe that "all creative ideas link themselves to...

Here is a new text that fulfills an emerging need in both higher and public education and stands to break new ground in addressing critical skills required of graduates. When working on their last book, It Works for Me, Creatively, the authors realized that the future belongs to the right-brained. While Daniel Pink and other visionaries may have oversimplified a bit, higher education is ripe for the creative campus, while secondary education is desperately seeking a complement to the growing assessment/teach-to-the-test mentality. You don't have to study the 2010 IBM survey of prominent...