From Dissertation to Book - William Germano - Google Books.
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.Germano W. From Dissertation to Book.. 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 informative and engaging.For example, Cirasella and Thistlethwaite 3 and Courtney and Kilcer 4 provide excellent discussions of issues and review recent literature, while William Germano’s classic From Dissertation to Book 5 and Beth Luey’s Revising Your Dissertation 6 offer important insight into what might be involved during the dissertation revision process.
But what makes a dissertation work as a book? In this talk William Germano addresses the skill of diagnosing your own scholarly work so that you can can recognize where dissertations end and books begin. William Germano is professor of English literature and dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences at Cooper Union. Formerly vice.Submissions Guidelines. . We recommend The Thesis and the Book: A Guide for First-Time Academic Authors, 2nd edition, edited by Eleanor Harman et al., From Dissertation to Book by William Germano, and Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors, 2nd edition, edited by Beth Luey.
This guide includes the cover letter and proposal that landed me a book contact for Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry (Stanford University Press, 2010).
