The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook: Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Manuscript (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

Writing an academic book is a daunting task. Where to start? This workbook. So, youve 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. Youll clarify your books 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, youll figure out how to thread your books main ideas through its chapters. Then, youll assemble an argument, and finally, youll draft any remaining material and revise the manuscript. And most important, by the time you complete the workbook, youll have confidence that your book works as a bookthat its 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 projectthat it is structurally sound, coherent, free of the hallmarks of dissertationese," and ready for submission to an academic publisher.