![]() ![]() Cut the number of quotations, especially long ones.Cut the review of literature or, if you feel you must keep some of it, work parts of it into the text at relevant points.You can still acknowledge them, but as individual scholars rather than as part of your committee. Cut the part where you thank your dissertation committee. ![]() Is it interesting to more than just a handful of scholars? Is it unique? Is it timely, but not faddish? Where does it fit with other books published lately in your discipline? Chances are you'll have to broaden it, or narrow it, or take a different angle on it than you did in the dissertation. The first step for you is to take a look at your topic. The press's acquisitions editor, the expert readers to whom the press sends the manuscript for evaluation, and the editorial board will all be evaluating not only the validity of your argument and the depth of your research, but also the book's potential appeal to a substantial number of educated lay readers outside a narrow field of interest. To guard against an immediate rejection, you'll need to spend a lot of time rethinking and reworking your manuscript. Because they receive so many unrevised dissertations a year, most editors can spot one soon after opening the package. In reality, even the best dissertations must be revised before being accepted for publication. Now you can just box it up, send it to a publisher, and receive a book contract, right? ![]()
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