Resource: Creating Content

Creating content requires subject-matter expertise, group collaboration, reader insights, and assuring accessibility.

At this stage, authors and editors often work closely together, shaping the structure and flow of the book while producing the texts, images, data, and other material that fills it out. The content creation process is collaborative; a give and take between abstract thinking and ground-level writing. Later on, the refinements of copyediting and proofreading give the textbook clarity and polish.

To make this stage as productive and harmonious as possible, read through the creating content overview.

s well as the section that covers the different kinds of editing that generally take place.