2. “SETAM VADA EKAM MA LIKHA”
You can talk hundred things but
do not write even once
“All have death, except authors”

3. Works to be consulted…..
• The writer has to review the material discussed in the following works
Samhitha (Treatises):
• BhriatTrayee, LaghuTrayee,
• Kashyapa,Harita & Bhela
Nighantu (Lexicons)
Ashtanganighantu
Dhanvantarinighantu
Kaiyyadevanighantu
Madanapalanighantu
Rajanighantu
Nighanturatnakar
Shaligramanighantu
Koshas (Dictionaries)
Vadiyakashabdasindhu
Shabdhakalpadruma
Sanskrit dictionaries
Apte’s
William Monnier
Yoga Sanghraha Grantha (Compilatory Works)
Vrindamadhav
Gadanighraha
Rajamartanda
Chakradutta
Vangasena
Lolambarajiyam
Yogaratnakara
Bhaishajyaratnavali

4. Many scholars regularly publish their research in the
journals or academic monographs but never consider writing
a textbook.
Many lecturers become frustrated because a course that
they want to teach has no obvious textbook to recommend to
students. If this is the case, why not write your
own?
“If you wish to be a writer – Write”
As innovative teachers working with the latest theories and
approaches, we often find that student textbooks do not keep
up with the trends explored in our research, meaning that
students can struggle to grasp these ideas.
journALS, MONOGRAPHS & TEXT BOOKS

5. Many publishers prefer that textbooks have an authorial
team rather than one author. This is because the ideas that
make up a textbook’s content are not solely the intellectual
product of one person but of a synthesis of the field, so it
makes sense to have a number of scholars on board preparing
the content.
Co-authors

6. Looking for a textbook publisher is a different procedure
from finding one for a monograph. Make sure your research
which is the key player in the field, as the top monograph
publishers may not be the best for textbooks.
If you are a full time academician you will find that textbook
publishers come to you. You will be approached by publishers
offering free ‘inspection copies’ of their existing books to
encourage you to adopt the books as recommended texts for
your courses. Alternatively, publishers’ representatives often
visit universities and arrange face to face meetings with
academics to discuss this. As an author you can take this
opportunity to see whether the publisher would be interested
in your proposed textbook.
FINDING A PUBLISHER

7. Find 3-5 books that you think are similar to your idea.
For each book, you need to explain what your book offers
and try your best to pick newer titles.
You need to create an outline and table of contents for your
book.
This is where it starts to get serious, and we find out if we
really want to write a book, or if we are just toying with the
idea.
FIGURE OUT

8. Author has to thoroughly read the books already published to
form an idea with regard to “How to start” the writing
Language:
Lucid and terse expression.
Ambiguity must be avoided.
Hyperbolic expression must be carefully avoided.
Explanation of the concept is highly essential.
Different concepts appearing about the subject must be
explained in the light of modern researches carried out.
Beginning of writing exercise

9. Whom you are addressing
Types of student
•Below average
•Average
•Above average
•Intelligent

10. Write the first 1-3 chapters. This is another good test to
prepare you for the process.
 If you can provide a publisher a solid proposal for the book
that includes 1-3 solidly-written chapters, you’re making an
excellent case for why your book needs to be published.
And writing those chapters will give you a great idea of how
long it will take you to write the entire book. For example, if
it takes you 3 months to write the first chapter, that could be
a big red flag.
WRITE A CHAPTER FIRST

11. You’ll need to tell publishers the importance of the your
work and the market for it.
 You’ll also need to include the table of contents and any of
the chapters you have written.
PROPASAL FOR THE BOOK

12. EARNINGS THROUGH BOOK WRITING
1. ROYALTY
Don’t expect to get rich from writing a book.
You’ll likely get an advance of 5,000-10,000 rupees if a
publisher accepts your book. Remember this is an ADVANCE,
which means you’ll have to pay this money back to the
publisher.
The advance is against the money you will make from
royalties on the book. So if your publisher gives you a 5,000
rupees advance, you have to pay that back first from your
royalties. Which means you won’t get any royalty payments
until you’ve covered your 5,000 advance. If you never sell
enough to cover your advance, then you don’t get any royalty
payments. But either way, you keep the 5,000 advance.

13. EARNINGS THROUGH BOOK WRITING
2. COPYRIGHT
“Every author has a right to copy to write”
Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country, that
grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use
and distribution, usually for a limited time, with the intention of
enabling the creator (e.g. the photographer of a photograph or the
author of a book) to receive compensation for their intellectual
effort.
Copyright is a form of intellectual property, applicable to any
expressed representation of a creative work. It is often shared,
then percentage holders are commonly called right’s holders:
legally, contractually and in associated "rights" business
functions.

14. Parts of the book
SPINE
COVER
AUTHOR
ILLUSTRATOR
TITLE
PREFACE & FORWARD
PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE
TABLE OF CONTENT
INDEX
GLOSSARY

15. Parts of the book
SPINE
The part of the book opposite of the opening, which is visible
when the book is shelved. Also known as back, back strip,
and shelf back.
COVER
A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together
the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction between
hard covers and paperbacks, there are further alternatives
and additions, such as dust jackets, ring-binding, and holder
forms such as the nineteenth-century "paper-boards" and the
traditional types of hand-binding.

16. Parts of the book
AUTHOR
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or
gave existence to anything" and whose authorship
determines responsibility for what was created. Narrowly
defined, an author is the originator of any written work and
can also be described as a writer.
ILLUSTRATOR
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing
or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation
that corresponds to the content of the associated text or
idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated
concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually,
which is the reason illustrations are often found in children's
books.

17. Parts of the book
TITLE
Title communicates the subject dealt in the book in a precise
way.
PREFACE & FORWARD
A preface is an introduction to a book written by the author.
An introductory essay written by a different person is a
foreword and precedes an author's preface.
The preface often closes with acknowledgments of those who
assisted in the book writing.

18. Parts of the book
PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE
A prologue or prolog (Greek prologos, from the word pro
(before) and lógos, word) is an opening to a story that
establishes the setting and gives background details, often
some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other
miscellaneous information.
An epilogue or epilog is a piece of writing at the end of a work
of literature, usually used to bring closure to the work. When
the author steps in and speaks indirectly to the reader, that is
more properly considered an afterword.

19. Parts of the book
TABLE OF CONTENT
It is a list of the parts of a book or document organized in the
order in which the parts appear.
The contents usually includes the titles or descriptions of the
first-level headers, such as chapter titles in longer works, and
often includes second-level or section titles (A-heads) within
the chapters as well, and occasionally even third-level titles
(subsections or B-heads).
INDEX
An index (plural: usually indices) is a list of words or phrases
('headings') and associated pointers ('locators') to where
useful material relating to that heading can be found in a
document.

20. Parts of the book
GLOSSARY
A glossary, also known as a vocabulary, or clavis, is an
alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge
with the definitions for those terms.
Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and
includes terms within that book that are either newly
introduced, uncommon, or specialized.
While glossaries are most commonly associated with non-
fiction books, in some cases, fiction novels may come with a
glossary for unfamiliar terms.

21. sizes of the book

22. Monograph
MONOGRAPH
The term "monographia" is derived from the Greek mono
(single) and grapho (to write), meaning "writing on a single
subject". Unlike a textbook, which surveys the state of
knowledge in a field, the main purpose of a monograph is to
present primary research and original scholarship. This
research is presented at length, distinguishing a monograph
from an article.

23. monogram
MONOGRAM
A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two
or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol.
Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an
individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols.

24. dedication
A dedication is the expression of friendly connection or to
acknowledge another person.
The dedication has its own place on the dedication page and
is part of the front matter.
In newer books, the dedication is located on a dedication
page, usually on the recto page after the main title page
inside the front matter.
It can occupy one or multiple lines depending on its
importance.

25. Recto & verso
The recto and verso are respectively the "front" and "back"
sides of a leaf of paper in a bound item such as a codex,
book, broadsheet, or pamphlet. In languages written from left
to right (such as English) the recto is the right-hand page and
the verso the left-hand page of an opening showing two pages
(excepting some first pages). These are terms of art in the
binding, printing, and publishing industries, and can be
applied more broadly to any field where physical documents
are exchanged.

26. addendum
An addendum, in general, is an addition required to be made
to a document by its author subsequent to its printing or
publication.
It comes from the Latin verbal phrase addendum est,
meaning "that which must be added".

27. bibliogaphy
Bibliography (from Greek βιβλιογραφία bibliographia, literally
"book writing"), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic
study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is
also known as bibliology.
Carter and Barker (2010) describe bibliography as a twofold
scholarly discipline—the organized listing of books
(enumerative bibliography) and the systematic description of
books as physical objects (descriptive bibliography).

28. bibliogaphy

29. bibliogaphy
Author (Surname, Initials)
Year Of Publication,
Title Of Book (Italics Or Underlined),
Edition (If Applicable),
Publisher,
Place Of Publication (Place And State, If Not A Capital City)
1. Standard writing procedures

30. references
As a student, it is important that you identify in your
assessment when you are using the words or ideas of another
author. The most accepted way of acknowledging the work of
another author is to use a referencing system. At the
Department of Lifelong Learning you are required to use the
Harvard referencing system.
For books, record:
The author’s or editor’s name (or names)
The year the book was published
The title of the book
If it is an edition other than the first
The city the book was published in
The name of the publisher

31. Footnote
Endnote

32. Vancouver
system
The Vancouver system, also
known as Vancouver reference
style or the author-number
system, is a citation style. It is
popular in the physical sciences,
and is one of two referencing
systems normally used in
medicine, the other being the
author-date, or "Harvard", system
Parenthetical referencing, also known as
Harvard referencing, is a citation style in
which partial citations—for example,
"(Smith 2010, p. 1)"—are enclosed within
parentheses and embedded in the text,
either within or after a sentence. They are
accompanied by a full, alphabetized list of
citations in an end section, usually titled
"references", "reference list", "works
cited", or "end-text citations".

33. references
For journal articles record:
The author’s name or names
The year in which the journal was published
The title of the article
The title of the journal
The page number/s of the article in the journal
As much other information as you can find about the journal, for
example the volume and issue numbers
For electronic resources record:
The date you accessed the source
The electronic address or email
The type of electronic resource (email, discussion forum, WWW
page, etc)

34. summary
Summary is a noun, and "summery" is an adjective, but they
sound alike and both describe something short. A summer feels
like a short piece of a long year, and a summary is a short
statement about a longer piece.
When a long speech or writing needs retelling in a short amount
of time, a summary sums up the meaning in much fewer words.

35. Annexure & appendix
When a document is prepared containing many points differing in content
and sequence, presenting them all, one after another will make it less
cogent and difficult to understand and retain for discussion follow up etc.
In such cases they will be presented separately at the end of the main
portion giving serial number for each individual item (mentioned, but not
detailed in the body) as appendix or annexure.
Annexure and appendix mean more or less the same.

36. mcq in a textbook
Use either the best answer or the correct answer format. Best
answer format refers to a list of options that can all be correct in
the sense that each has an advantage, but one of them is the
best.
Correct answer format refers to one and only one right answer.
Format the questions vertically, not horizontally (i.e., list the
choices vertically).

37. mcq in a textbook
Use good grammar, punctuation, and spelling consistently.
Minimize the time required to read each question.
Avoid tricky questions.
Use the active voice.
The ideal question will be answered correctly by 60-65% of the
tested population.
Have your questions peer-reviewed.
Avoid giving unintended cues – such as making the correct
answer longer in length than the distractors.

38. Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and
publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or
expressions" and the representation of them as one's own
original work.
Plagiarism is not a crime per se but in academia and industry,
it is a serious ethical offense, and cases of plagiarism can
constitute copyright infringement.
Verbatim cannot be produced
plagiarism

39. Flow charts & tables
 Book has to provide flow charts and tables wherever
necessary for easy understanding.
 Pictorial expression is also useful to explain the subject

40. Important points can be provide on the pages which draws
immediate attention in boxes.
Highlighting important points

41. Proof reading is the reading of a galley proof or an electronic
copy of a publication to detect and correct production errors
of text or art.
Proof readers are expected to be consistently accurate by
default because they occupy the last stage of typographic
production before publication.
Proof reading

42. A diacritic also diacritical mark, diacritical point, or diacritical
sign – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.
Diacritic is primarily an adjective, though sometimes used as a
noun, whereas diacritical is only ever an adjective.
Some diacritical marks, such as the acute( ´ ) and grave ( ` ), are
often called accents. Diacritical marks may appear above or
below a letter, or in some other position such as within the
letter or between two letters.
Diacritical marks

43. The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around
1440 marks the entry of the book into the industrial age.
The Western book was no longer a single object, written or
reproduced by request. The publication of a book became an
enterprise, requiring capital for its realization and a market for its
distribution. The cost of each individual book (in a large edition)
was lowered enormously, which in turn increased the distribution
of books.
The book in codex form and printed on paper, as we know it today,
dates from the 15th century. Books printed before January 1, 1501,
are called INCUNABLES.
Printing press

44. Egyptian Papyrus
Bamboo book - binding
Bhurjapatra
Tamraptra
Ancient printing material

45. GOOD MAN & GILMAN
Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics is
an American textbook of pharmacology. First published in 1941, the
book is in its twelfth edition (as of 2011), and has the reputation of
being the "bible of pharmacology". The readership of this book
include physicians of all therapeutic and surgical specialties, clinical
pharmacologists, clinical research professionals and pharmacists.
The work is named after Louis S. Goodman and Alfred Gilman of Yale
University, School of Medicine.

46. Vd.YadavajiTriakmaji Acharya
Vd.Vishwanath Dwivedi Acharya Priyavrat Sharma
Vd.Bapalal shah
Towering personalities of dravyaguna

47. A book that inspired..
Prof. C. Dwarakanath

48. LETTER OF INSPIRATION

49. CRITICISM
Criticism= 2% Moral+49% Jealosy+49% Envy.
“An unsuccessful author turns critic.”
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects”
- Will Rogers.
“Authors in general are not good listeners”- William Hazliti
“The clarity of expression, the
analytical exposition of the most
abstract theories and The humorous
anecdotes with which he regarded
his students. He was dead against a
teacher with a wryly face”.

50. Be a writer…
LearnTo Labor AndWait, SuccessWill
Not Escape, Success Cannot Escape ….