From Dissertation To Book, Second Edition Av William Germano

When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. 'You know something!' I would say if it could hear me. 'Now tell it to us in language we can understand!' Since its publication in 2005, From Dissertation to Book has helped thousands of young academic authors get their books beyond the thesis committee and into the hands of interested publishers and general readers. Now revised and updated to reflect the evolution of scholarly publishing, this edition includes a new chapter arguing that the future of academic writing is in the hands of young scholars who meet the broader expectations of readers rather than the narrow requirements of academic committees. At the heart of From Dissertation to Book is the idea that revising the dissertation is fundamentally a process of shifting its focus from the concerns of a narrow audience - a committee or advisors - to those of a broader scholarly audience that wants writing to be both