Showing posts with label Islamic banking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islamic banking. Show all posts

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Publish or perish!

I'm now in the final process of writing a simple book on Islamic banking. The book's title is ISLAMIC BANKING SYSTEM FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. A title given by Prof Madya Siti Akmar, a language coordinator at UPENA, UiTM.

The IBS FAQ book contains some brief notes on Islamic banking concepts, applications and development; and some FAQs on the topic plus anwers. All the answers are written in essay format with diagrams and tables. Basic references are provided at the back of the book.

A book must contains a minimum of 49 pages (UPENA) and comprises of :
  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgment
  3. Chapters (1,2,3..)-minimum 5 chapters
  4. References Or Bibliographies
  5. Appendixes (if available)
  6. Index

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Writing & publish


We are not trained to be a writer. As a child, we learned and practiced writing only for school exercises. The same experience continued at the university level i.e. writing only for academic purpose. Writing a diary or making notes is not common in our daily live. We are actually 'don't like to write' and 'don't know what & how to write'.
My experience of writing a book is very challenging. I found it is very difficult at organizing facts and elaborating them. Feeling fear of giving wrong points is there, almost all the time. I failed to give some 'life' to the book. In other words, the book is of 'no life' i.e. 'too dry'. But it serves the academic purpose well.
Next move is to start writing articles for conferences & journals. If compared to books, writing articles is short but must be very specific, very current, follow certain standard of refernce, preferred empirical & fully analyzed. So, lets start writing...we can start by writing blog!. Enjoy writing. Lets writing enlighten and broaden our live!