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Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors

The aftermath of graduate school can be particularly trying for those under pressure to publish their dissertations. Written with good cheer and jammed with information, this lively guide offers hard-to-find practical advice on successfully turning a dissertation into a book or journal articles that will appeal to publishers and readers. It will help prospective authors master writing and revision skills, better understand the publishing process, and increase their chances of getting their work into print. In this guide experienced editors of scholarly books tackle such subjects as addressing a target audience, broadening a topic, reorganizing, developing a voice, and finding the best documentation system. Specific chapters address authors in different academic fields: the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and arts. The guide also gives advice to authors of books on topics of regional interest and of books written for practicing professionals. Revising Your Dissertation will be useful for students who are developing a dissertation topic or are in the process of writing a dissertation, as well as those who have completed a dissertation they wish to bring to a wider audience.

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Title of ebook: Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors
ISBN: 9780520901834
parent-ISBN: 9780520242555
Publisher: University of California Press
Internet download file size: 632 kb
Published: 08-2004
Released online for download: 08-06-2004
Editor: Luey, Beth

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Chapter One

YOU'RE THE AUTHOR NOW

William P. Sisler

OK, so you've passed your orals, defended your thesis successfully, gotten your union card. So far, so good. But the pressure is intense and immediate. To get ahead, to stay ahead, you need to get that book out. You have the raw material, but it's not a book; it's a dissertation, and that won't do. Why? Because when you wrote your thesis, you were an acolyte not yet empowered to speak with authority and gravitas. Now, as you begin to think about moving that dissertation into book mode, you'll need to make a gestalt shift, in which you stop seeing yourself as a supplicant seeking to convince the chosen few (your dissertation committee) and start seeing yourself as a creator, an expert, an authority-an author.

As an author-as the author-you've taken charge of your work; you have a right to speak and be heard. Your readers will pick up your book not to judge your mastery of the facts or your facility with the literature in your field but to learn something new. Unlike your dissertation committee, they will assume you know what you're talking about. Still, your readers don't want ... read full excerpt from Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors ebook

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