Binding: Paperback
Description: Writing an academic book is a daunting task. Where to start? This workbook. So you ve written a dissertation. Congratulations! But how do you turn it into a book? Even if you know what to do when revising your dissertation do you know how to do those things? This workbook by Katelyn E. Knox and Allison Van Deventer creators of the successful online Dissertation - to - Book Boot Camp offers a series of manageable concrete steps with exercises to help you revise your academic manuscript into publishable book form. The Dissertation - to - Book Workbook uses targeted exercises and prompts to take the guesswork out of writing a book. You ll clarify your book's core priorities pinpoint your organizing principle polish your narrative arc evaluate your evidence and much more. Using what this workbook calls book questions and chapter answers you ll figure out how to thread your book's main ideas through its chapters. Then you ll assemble an argument and finally you ll draft any remaining material and revise the manuscript. And most important by the time you complete the workbook you ll have confidence that your book works as a book that it's a cohesive focused manuscript that tells the story you want to tell. Indispensible to anyone with an academic manuscript in progress the prompts examples checklists and activities will give you confidence about all aspects of your project that it is structurally sound coherent free of the hallmarks of dissertationese " and ready for submission to an academic publisher.
Title: The Dissertation - To - Book Workbook Exercises For Developing And Revising Your Book Manuscript
Author(s): Van Deventer Allison
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226825816
Pages: 240 Pages, 1 Halftones, 176 Tables
Publication Date: 11/7/2023
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Category: Sociology & Anthropology