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Guidelines and Template for Contributing a Chapter to HRSM

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    Thank you for your interest in adding a chapter to Humans R Social Media. Please read the guide below, and if you are still interested in contributing a chapter, contact us through our online form.

    Information and steps needed to approve a new chapter

    • Your name, affiliation, and position
    • Date of request
    • Proposed topic
    • Where you think it should go in the book
    • A sample of your work (Ideally a textbook chapter or popular press article)

    Style

    HRSM was originally written for beginning college students in the United States. The style is closer to popular journalism than to most academic journals, and personal or first-person perspective is welcome but not required. Writers should avoid long paragraphs in favor of shorter ones, and include images and/or multimedia elements to break up the text. Please peruse and consider the H5P elements available to you.

    License

    Your work in HRSM should be openly licensed with the CC BY, CC SA, or other Creative Commons license. This includes media (images, audio, etc) that is uploaded to the book or media library. Media should be described with TASL included. Embedded media do not need to be openly licensed.

    Components to include

    • The body of the chapter (preferably 2000 to 6000 words)
    • Glossary terms (at least 1 per 1,000 words in the body) integrated and also included in a Core Concepts section
    • A Core Questions section listing Glossary terms in alphabetical order

    Recommended and optional components

    Additional components that can add significant accessibility and enjoyment for student readers include a guide to chapter contents, images, content created by students, and interactive media in H5P. These are all explained further in the template.

    Timeline

    Once the agreement that you will add a chapter is completed, you will be given editing access to an upcoming version of the book. We ask that you complete the chapter within three months.

    Template

    Below is a template for contributing a chapter to this book. We suggest you read our An Invitation to Open Governance before beginning to contribute a chapter. Arranged contributors will be given edit access to a copy of this template.

    Key points

    • [Key point 2]
    • [Key point 2]
    • [Key point 3]

    In this chapter

    1. Section 1: [Title]
    2. [Optional:] Student Insights: [Title] [(author name, semester and year)]
    3. Section 2: [Title]
    4. Section 3: [Title]
    5. Section 4: [Title]
    6. [Optional – Embedded multimedia content]
    7. Core Concepts
    8. Core Questions
    9. [Optional: Openly licensed external content, (Related Content)]

    [Tip: Using Heading 1 will make a anchored heading in the chapter. To generate the list of these, create your sections with titles in Heading 1, then save the chapter and view it in the Table of Contents, and copy the list that appears. Read more about the 2-level TOC in Pressbooks’ guide on Appearance / Theme Options.]

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    Writing

    Section 1: [Title]

    Writing

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    [Optional:] Student Insights: [Title] [(author name, semester and year)]

    Image of iVoices logo; light blue circle with navy blue old-fashioned condenser microphone with a red stand and the word 'iVoices" curved on the bottom right.

    [Optional] Respond to this case study: [A question or prompt to generate student writing and reflection on the chapter content.]

    [Tip: You can do this multiple times throughout the chapter and give the series your own name, or you can use “Respond to this case study.”]

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    Writing

    Section 2: [Title]

    Writing

    Section 3: [Title]

    Writing

    Section 4: [Title]

    [Writing]

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    [Optional: Text box with an image and personal information about you, the chapter author]

    [If you like, write about yourself, in a bio or in an in-context piece in relation with the chapter.]

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    [Optional – Embedded multimedia content]

    [If you like, include multimedia content such as an embedded podcast episode.]

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    Core Concepts

    [Add one glossary term for each 1,000 words written above]

    [define glossary terms and list in alphabetical order]

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    Core Questions

    [A.] Questions for qualitative thought:

    1. [A question or prompt to generate student writing and reflection on the chapter content.]

    [Optional: B. Review: Which is the best answer?]

    [Create and insert quantitative question-based assessment.]
    [Tip: You can add H5P such as Multiple Choice questions.]

    [Optional: C. Game on!]

    [Create or insert game-based assessment activities.]
    [Tip: You can add H5P such as Multiple Choice questions.]

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    Related Content

    [Optional: Openly licensed external content, title here]

    [Tip: Find work licensed under Creative Commons in an openly licensed publication like The Conversation that included html code for reuse. Once you are creating your chapter, switch to text view&nbsp; in the Pressbooks editor, paste in the code, and Preview, then Create/Save.]

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    [Tip: Add metadata including author name (linked to your User profile) and licensing in the fields you see below when in Edit mode.]

    Media Attributions

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