title: Textbook writing: a form of professional development.
abstract: Health educators have an ethical obligation to participate in professional development. Such professional development can take many different forms including writing textbooks. This article provides a rationale why textbook writing is professional development, why professionals might take on the task of writing a textbook, how the process evolves, and how professionals who are not quite ready to write a book can prepare to do so in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology & Health Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA. jmckenzie@bsu.edu
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: McKenzie
authors.forename: Denise M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Seabert
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hayden
authors.forename: Randall R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Cottrell
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D040441:Health Educators; D006801:Humans; D011361:Professional Competence; D013782:Textbooks as Topic; D014956:Writing