Textbook

A textbook is a published reference book that can be used in a course by a student.

• AKA: Coursebook.
• Example(s):
  • a Data Mining Textbook, such as (Han & Kamber, 2006).
  • a Statistics Textbook.
  • a Legal Casebook.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Survey Paper.
• See: Comprehensive Book, Education, Syllabus.

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References

2022

• (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/textbook Retrieved:2022-11-3.
  • A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions. Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools. Today, many textbooks are published in both print and digital formats.

2015

• (Wang et al., 2015) ⇒ Shuting Wang, Chen Liang, Zhaohui Wu, Kyle Williams, Bart Pursel, Benjamin Brautigam, Sherwyn Saul, Hannah Williams, Kyle Bowen, and C. Lee Giles. (2015). “Concept Hierarchy Extraction from Textbooks.” In: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. ISBN:978-1-4503-3307-8 doi:10.1145/2682571.2797062

2007

• (Hjørland, 2007) ⇒ Birger Hjørland. (2007). “Core Concepts in Library and Information Science (LIS)."
  • http://www.db.dk/bh/Core%20Concepts%20in%20LIS/articles%20a-z/textbook.htm
  • A textbook is a kind of document, which provides a systematic introduction to the fundamental principles or content of a subject intended for teaching a given target group.

1998

• (Brooke, 1998) ⇒ J. H. Brooke. (1998). “Textbooks and the History of Science.” In: Paradigm, No. 25. http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/faculty/westbury/paradigm/brooke.html

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