Authoring a PhD Thesis How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Dissertation by Patrick Dunleavy
a journal which publishes the same kind of material as your paper, and has a good but not necessarily a top reputation in your f ...
area, since the authors of relevant work are likely to be your referees. Get long data or methodology sections out of the main l ...
made it past the worst hurdle and not let yourself be put down by also receiving some criticisms. This kind of letter may seem t ...
and other experienced colleagues. Next make sure that you revise the paper to prevent the same criticisms recurring elsewhere. T ...
operations. Referees give their services free, solely out of a sense of professional commitment or obligation. And most editors ...
authors such permissions to reproduce their own materials without any copyright fee; for if they did not do so, their sup- ply o ...
a contract between author and publisher is still a necessary basis for publication, it is rarely necessary to spend much time wo ...
a perhaps difficult, time-consuming and demoralizing book publishing process, you need to get clear whether there is a reasonabl ...
find one or several in your field then they may offer the most attractive option open to you. These firms tend to be quicker off ...
operations, and often higher prices and shorter print runs. But they are otherwise similar operations to the bigger firms. They ...
worthwhile way. In addition once issued by such presses your thesis does not become any more accessible than sitting on the shel ...
appeal. Are there parts of the thesis which are off-putting for readers and that can be hived off to a separate journal article? ...
PhD thesis itself (or even large bits of it). Even the few publishers who still look carefully at academic monograph books may w ...
chance of achieving significant sales if you seem to know how to promote it from the outset. In your marketing bit you can assum ...
◆ Include a specimen chapter. Send your best chapter for the purposes of getting the book accepted. This may not necessarily be ...
a publisher may lead them to take a collectively unfavourable view of your work. In addition, if you send off copies of your pro ...
available in any bookshop or really noticeable in any catalogue, but remains formally ‘in print’ for ever. Be on the look-out al ...
which you can disseminate the messages from your doctoral research to a wider audience. It is the principal mechanism by which y ...
Afterword ‘I f a thing is worth doing’, said G. K. Chesterton, ‘it’s worth doing badly.’^1 His brilliant reversal of common sens ...
pages and your own doctoral work will entail a similar amount of heroic commitment on your part, a wholesale and necessary recon ...
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