Roger E. Sanders - From Idea to Print: How to Write a Technical Book or Article and Get It Published

As a professor who teaches graduate computer science courses, I stress the importance and need for my students to continually improve their technical writing skills. Its not enough to be brilliant technically; you have to be able to share this brilliance with others, often in a written form. This book provides my students with essential ingredients to develop their technical writing skills. It will be of use to them not only during their studies but also afterward, regardless of whether they stay in academia or enter industry.

Franck van Breugel, PhD

Professor in Computer Science, Adjunct Professor in Mathematics

York University, Toronto

Theres no guaranteed recipe for getting a technical article published, but Roger has written the closest thing that Ive seen yet. If youre serious about technical writing for publication, read this book.

Cameron Crotty

Content Director

TDA Group

Roger provides clear and sound advice on the many topics surrounding getting published. It is hard not to find something valuable in every chapter!

Steffan Surdek

Co-author of A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum

I wish Roger had written this book 10 years ago. It would have made the whole process of writing my books so much faster and easier.

Dwaine Snow

Senior DB2 Technical Evangelist

IBM Corporation

I have known Roger Sanders for many years and have read many of his books. This one is certainly one of the most useful IT books I have ever read. It will be of great help to anyone who is interested in writing an IT-related book or technical article. I heartily recommend it.

Jeff Browning, OCP

EMC Corporation

Author of a forthcoming book tentatively titled Virtualizing Oracle Databases

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Roger E. Sanders is the President of Roger Sanders Enterprises, Inc. and a Senior Consultant Corporate Systems Engineer with EMC Corporation. He has been working with DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows since it was first introduced on the IBM PC (as part of OS/2 1.3 Extended Edition) and is the author of twenty-two books on relational database technology (twenty-one books are on DB2 and one book is on ODBC). For the past nine years, Roger has authored the Distributed DBA column in IBM Data Management Magazine (formerly DB2 Magazine) and, over a fourteen-year period, he has written numerous tutorials and articles for IBMs developerWorks website as well as for publications like Certification Magazine and IDUG Solutions Journal (the official magazine of the International DB2 Users Group). In 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011, Roger was recognized as an IBM Champion for his contributions to the IBM Data Management community; in 2010, he was recognized as an IBM developerWorks Contributing Author, and in 2011, he was recognized as an IBM developerWorks Professional Author for his contributions to IBMs developerWorks web site. He lives in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina (population 39,042).

From Idea to Print: How to Write a Technical Article or Book and Get It Published

By Roger E. sanders

First Edition

First PrintingOctober 2011

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