{"product_id":"the-dissertationtobook-workbook-9780226825816","title":"The DissertationtoBook Workbook","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Dissertation-to-Book Workbook \u003c\/i\u003enot 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 \u003ci\u003ebefore \u003c\/i\u003ethe 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Rebecca K. Marchiel, University of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The What, Why, and How of This Workbook\u003cbr\u003e This Workbook’s Origins\u003cbr\u003e An Overview of the Work You’ll Do\u003cbr\u003e How This Workbook Invites You to Work\u003cbr\u003e Practice 1: Prioritize Action\u003cbr\u003e Practice 2: Aim for Progress, Not Perfection\u003cbr\u003e Practice 3: Reflect Intentionally and Capture Doubts\u003cbr\u003e Practice 4: Build Confidence by Asking Challenging Questions\u003cbr\u003e What You Won’t Do in This Workbook\u003cbr\u003e Decide Whether to Publish a Book or Articles\u003cbr\u003e Answer Questions about Your Book’s Publishability or Your Argument’s Significance\u003cbr\u003e Complete Your Book Manuscript\u003cbr\u003e Copyedit Your Book’s Prose\u003cbr\u003e Identify Your Book’s Target Audience and Possible Publishers\u003cbr\u003e Draft Your Book Proposal\u003cbr\u003e Gain Procedural Information on Publication\u003cbr\u003e How to Use This Workbook\u003cbr\u003e Completing the Workbook Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Recommended Pacing\u003cbr\u003e A Final Note: You Aren’t Alone!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Considering Your Book on Its Own Terms\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Describing Your Book on Its Own Terms\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Understanding the Alignment Between Scope, Claims, and Evidence\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Troubleshooting Misaligned Claims, Scope, and Evidence\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Freewriting to Assess Your Book as a Book\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Reviewing Your Book’s Organizing Principle\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 2\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Recognizing Organizing Principles\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Identifying Your Book’s Current Primary Organizing Principle\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Imagining All of Your Book’s Potential Organizing Principles\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Stating the Implied Questions\u003cbr\u003e Step 5: Choosing Your Organizing Principle\u003cbr\u003e Step 6: Reflecting on Your Organizing Principle\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Drafting Your First Book Question\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 3\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Understanding Book Questions\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Stress-Testing the Actors and Actions of Your Book Question\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Revising Your Question Word\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Checking Your Book Question Candidates Against Your Chapters\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Drafting Your Remaining Book Questions\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 4\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Selecting Other Book Questions\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Brainstorming Questions Related to Book Question 1\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Stress-Testing and Answering Your Book Questions\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Revising Your Book Questions\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 5\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Checking Actors and Actions\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Stress-Testing Your Terminology\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Assessing Conceptual Relationships\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Projecting Your Chapter Answers\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Assessing Your Chapters on Their Own Terms\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 6\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Producing Chapter Snapshots\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Surveying Your Chapters Within Your Book\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Assessing the Alignment Between Your Chapters’ Evidence, Scope, and Claims\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Evaluating Your Chapters’ Corpus\u003cbr\u003e Step 5: Adding Metacommentary\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Checking Your Chapters for Parallelism\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 7\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Identifying Constants and Variables\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Evaluating Your Book’s Variables\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Handling Outlier Chapters\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Crafting Your Book’s Narrative Arc\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 8\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Describing Your Chapter Order\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Playing with Chapter Order\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Settling on a Final Chapter Order\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Identifying Narrative Interest\u003cbr\u003e Step 5: Laying Out Connections and Shifts Between Consecutive Chapters\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Producing Your Chapter Answers\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 9\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Transforming Your Templates into Chapter Answers\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Collecting Your Key Terms\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Scrutinizing Your Terms\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Noticing and Revising\u003cbr\u003e Optional Step 5: Expanding and Condensing Your Chapter Answers\u003cbr\u003e Step 6: Producing the Rest of Your Chapter Answers\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Revising Your Chapter Answers as a Group and Refining Your Book Questions\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 10\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Reassessing Your Terminology\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Checking for Parallelism in Actors (and Actions)\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Noticing and Revising for Directionality\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Reviewing Your Final Book Questions and Chapter Answers\u003cbr\u003e Step 5: Reading Aloud\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Reviewing Your Book’s Changes and Tying Up Loose Ends\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 11\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Reviewing and Reflecting on Decisions Made Along the Way\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Revisiting, Revising, and Extending Your Chapter 1 Work\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Reviewing Your Book’s Structure and Arc\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Reflecting on Your Chapters and Their Contributions\u003cbr\u003e Step 5: Capturing Threads\u003cbr\u003e Step 6: Dealing with Background Information\u003cbr\u003e Optional Step 7: Synthesizing Dissertation and Book Differences\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Assembling Your Book Argument\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 12\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Writing Your Implicit Lesson(s)\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Turning Your Book Questions into Statements\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Pulling It All Together\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: Assembling Your Two-Page Book Narrative\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 13\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: Transitioning from “Working \u003ci\u003eon\u003c\/i\u003e” Your Book to “Working \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e” Your Book\u003cbr\u003e Work You’ve Done; What Lies Ahead\u003cbr\u003e FAQ as You Reach This Transition Point\u003cbr\u003e Am I ready to draft proposals now?\u003cbr\u003e Am I ready to talk to editors now?\u003cbr\u003e Which chapter(s) should I start with in Chapter 14?\u003cbr\u003e What about chapters I still need to draft?\u003cbr\u003e When should I plan to draft my book introduction?\u003cbr\u003e How long will revisions take?\u003cbr\u003e When should I plan to submit proposals?\u003cbr\u003e What if I want to change my plan?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: Assembling a Chapter Collage\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Time Investment\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 14\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Gathering Your Materials\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Using Your Chapter Answers to Produce a Chapter Structure and Roadmap\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Assembling One Section by Mining Your Source Material\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Making Notes and Filling Gaps\u003cbr\u003e Step 5: Repeating Steps 3–4 for Each Section\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: Reverse Outlining Your Chapter Collage\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 15\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Assembling Your Materials and Preparing the Section\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Claim Tagging (Reverse Outlining) Your Paragraphs\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Function Tagging Your Paragraphs\u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Generating Your “Honest Outline” of the Section\u003cbr\u003e Step 5: Analyzing Your “Honest Outline” and Jotting Notes\u003cbr\u003e Step 6: Creating an Aspirational Outline\u003cbr\u003e Step 7: Assessing Your Aspirational Outline\u003cbr\u003e Step 8: Drafting Topic Sentences to Match Your Aspirational Outline\u003cbr\u003e Step 9: Fleshing Out Paragraphs by Drafting or Assembling\u003cbr\u003e Step 10: Revising Your Transitions\u003cbr\u003e Step 11: Repeating Steps 1–10 for the Other Body Sections\u003cbr\u003e Optional Step 12: Macro Revising, Using Targeted Questions\u003cbr\u003e Step 13: Adjusting Your Book Questions and Chapter Answers\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: Citing with Confidence\u003cbr\u003e What to Expect\u003cbr\u003e Common Discoveries in Chapter 16\u003cbr\u003e Common Stumbling Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Deciding Whether and Where to Cite\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Deciding How Much to Cite\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Deciding How to Cite\u003cbr\u003e Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Final Words\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Appendixes\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: If Your Book Isn’t Based on a Dissertation\u003cbr\u003e Readiness Checklist\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: If Your Scope Needs a Closer Look\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: If You’re Unsure about Your Organizing Principle Question\u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Reprising Your Topic Statement\u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Review—Who’s Doing What to Whom?\u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Checking Against the Question Implied by the Organizing Principle\u003cbr\u003e Appendix D: If Your Book Question and Chapter Answer Terms Need a Closer Look\u003cbr\u003e Appendix E: If You Want Strategies for Drafting New Work\u003cbr\u003e Strategy 1: Close Reading\u003cbr\u003e Strategy 2: Asking and Answering Questions\u003cbr\u003e Strategy 3: Distilling Your Evidence Base\u003cbr\u003e Strategy 4: Dumping Everything You Know\u003cbr\u003e Strategy 5: Explaining to Yourself What You See\u003cbr\u003e Strategy 6: Talking as Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Strategy 7: Using a Topical Outline\u003cbr\u003e Appendix F: If You Want Some Tools for Micro Revising\u003cbr\u003e Considering the Topic Sentence\u003cbr\u003e Considering the Paragraph, Globally\u003cbr\u003e Considering Each Sentence\u003cbr\u003e Additional Resources for Micro Revising\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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