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I'd be interested to know the proportion of professors that write textbooks used in their own courses. I expect it's quite small. Certainly more common in human

• bsilvereagle 13y ago
  Well, I go to a large state school, but this semester all five of my engineering courses use books written by faculty or by the professor.
• singold 13y ago
  I had a statistics professor that used a book written by himself in a statistics 101 class. Also, as a pleasant surprise, the slides he used in class (and where available for students to download) were almost exactly the same content of the book.
• bradyd 13y ago
  During my freshman year at Georgia Tech I had two classes with text books written by the instructor. My chemistry teacher was one of the authors of textbook we used. The other was my CS1311 class, but instead of a traditional textbook it had a plastic comb binding and was really inexpensive compared to my other books (I actually still have it sitting on my shelf - $17.50). Edit: Now that I look more closely at it that CS book was just a supplement to the actual textbook, which was written by the instructor.
• glesica 13y ago
  I had a professor who assigned his own book when I was an undergrad, but he specifically didn't get royalties on those copies of the book (they were sold to school, we had a textbook rental system), and he explained this fact on the syllabus. I thought that was a pretty big thing of him to do, but he was a great guy, so no surprises maybe.