Why this book -- Getting started, again -- Nagging doubts -- The basic options -- Reading with an editor's eyes -- Planning and doing -- Getting into shape -- Making prose speak -- What happens next
Summary
All new Phd's hope that their dissertations can become books. But a dissertation is written for a committee and a book for the larger world. William Germano's From Dissertation to Book is the essential guide for academic writers who want to revise a doctoral thesis for publication. The author of Getting It Published, Germano draws upon his extensive experience in academic publishing to provide writers with a state-of-the-art view of how to turn a dissertation into a manuscript that publishers will notice. Acknowledging first that not all theses can become books, Germano shows how some disserta
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-137) and index
