The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook: Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Manuscript

The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook provides a series of manageable, concrete steps with exercises to help revise an academic manuscript into publishable book form. It guides users through clarifying their book's core priorities, pinpointing their organizing principle, polishing their narrative arc, evaluating their evidence, and assembling an argument. It also offers confidence that the book works as a cohesive, focused manuscript.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2023
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Writing an academic book is a daunting task, but 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 workbook uses targeted exercises and prompts to take the guesswork out of writing a book, such as clarifying your book's core priorities, pinpointing your organizing principle, polishing your narrative arc, evaluating your evidence, and much more. It also uses "book questions and chapter answers" to help you thread your book's main ideas through its chapters and assemble an argument. By the time you complete the workbook, you will have confidence that your book works as a book, that it is cohesive, focused, free of "dissertationese," and ready for submission to an academic publisher.

The prompts, examples, checklists, and activities will give you confidence about all aspects of your project, such as its structural soundness, coherence, and freedom from "dissertationese." The workbook is indispensable to anyone with an academic manuscript in progress, as it will help you revise your manuscript and prepare it for submission to an academic publisher.

Dimension: 279 x 216 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780226825816