The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook

Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Manuscript

By: Katelyn E. Knox, Allison Van Deventer

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Paperback | 22 January 2024 | Edition Number 1

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Writing an academic book is a daunting task. Where to start? This workbook.

So, youâve 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 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. Youâll clarify your bookâs core priorities, pinpoint your organizing principle, polish your narrative arc, evaluate your evidence, and much more. Using what this workbook calls âbook questions and chapter answers,â youâll figure out how to thread your bookâs main ideas through its chapters. Then, youâll assemble an argument, and finally, youâll draft any remaining material and revise the manuscript. And most important, by the time you complete the workbook, youâll have confidence that your book works as a bookâ"that itâs 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 projectâ"that it is structurally sound, coherent, free of the hallmarks of âdissertationese," and ready for submission to an academic publisher.

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"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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