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The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook: Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Manuscript (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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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.
About the Author
Katelyn Knox is an associate professor of French at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author of Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France.
Allison Van Deventer is a freelance developmental editor for academic authors in the humanities and qualitative social sciences.
Praise for The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook: Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Manuscript (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
“The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook not only succeeds but excels in guiding scholars through this process of revision. This pragmatic workbook walks an author through clear steps to identify the organizing principle of the book, write and revise the book’s central claims, and then ensure that the chapters actually function well together before the author sends the book to a press. Since scholars often only have one opportunity to convince a press to publish their book, working through this process before sending to editors is crucial—and this is an essential guide.”
— Rebecca K. Marchiel, University of Mississippi
“Based on their years of helping academics revise their dissertations into books, Knox and Van Deventer have distilled their incredible depth of knowledge into a beautifully thought-out book that takes you step by step through the process of revising your dissertation. Too many writing books give vague advice without any practical guidance. This is not that book. From advice on crafting your book’s arc and organizing principle to drafting your book questions and producing chapter answers, this book takes all the guessing out of one of the most stressful tasks academics face. This is the best book I have seen on the topic.” — Wendy Belcher, author of Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks
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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 ...
In this facilitated workshop, which features live support, accountability, and troubleshooting twice per week for 6 weeks (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2 pm Eastern / 10-11 am Pacific), we guide participants through Phase I of the Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (corresponding to Chapters 1-13). The workshop is designed for book authors who want practical steps, expert guidance, and peer ...
"The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook not only succeeds but excels in guiding scholars through this process of revision. This pragmatic workbook walks an author through clear steps to identify the organizing principle of the book, write and revise the book's central claims, and then ensure that the chapters actually function well together before the author sends the book to a press.
This workbook is designed for scholars in the humanities and qualitative social sciences who have monograph manuscripts already in progress. We wrote it with dissertation-to-book authors in mind because authors at this stage face the uniquely challenging task of rethinking a huge amount of draft material without the experience of having written a book before.
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 ...
Since 2018, she and Allison have expanded the exercises into a comprehensive curriculum and guided more than 200 academic monograph authors from a variety of humanities and social science authors through it in live and self-paced formats. The expanded curriculum is now available as The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (U Chicago Press, 2023).
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 ...
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 ...
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Since its publication in 2005, From Dissertation to Book has helped thousands of young academic authors get their books beyond the thesis committee and into the hands of interested publishers and general readers. Now revised and updated to reflect the evolution of scholarly publishing, this edition includes a new chapter arguing that the future ...
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The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook is the answer. It offers a series of manageable, concrete steps with exercises to help you clarify your book's core priorities, pinpoint your organizing principle, polish your narrative arc, evaluate your evidence, and thread your book's main ideas through its chapters.
Facilitated Dissertation-to-Book Workbook Experience. In this facilitated workshop, which meets once a week for 6 weeks, we guide participants through Phase I of the Dissertation-to-Book Workbook. The workshop is designed for book authors who want practical steps, expert guidance, and peer support as they dive into the work of drafting a book ...
Her book and workbook "The Dissertation Process: A Step by Step Mentored Guide" delves into the psychological journey that each and every Doctoral student will face. A Doctoral mentor to over 150 accomplished Ph.D.'s, Dr. Barnett clarifies the mysteries of the Doctoral journey; step- by- step.
First, review your manuscript as the book it will become by working on your book manuscript before working in it. This involves making serious decisions about content, scope, and structure. These decisions will, in turn, help you decide what to cut, what to keep, and how to frame your chapters. The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook walks you ...