Envisioning Your Dissertation as Something Else EntirelyEnvisioning Your Dissertation as Something Else Entirely is the second installment in TWEED’s Dissertation-to-Book series of guides. Here, TWEED outlines several options for the dissertation awaiting revision:

  • Craft a scholarly monograph
  • Contribute to an edited dissertation series
  • Parcel the research out into one journal article or several
  • Publish electronically
  • Blaze your own trail entirely

As you weigh the possibilities, consider your own unique situation. Do you have time restraints? Is your next project urgently awaiting your attention? What publication venues are most esteemed in your field? Does your dissertation topic need more space, or would it be best complemented by some additional research? Envisioning Your Dissertation as Something Else Entirely gives you plenty to think about as you and your dissertation move on to bigger and better vistas.

Stay tuned for TWEED Dissertation-to-Book Guide No. 3— Again, for the First Time: Revising Your Manuscript. Walk through the process of re-envisioning, reshaping, and polishing your project.

Guide No. 1, A Dissertation is an Auspicious Beginning, is available here.

Here’s Guide No. 3: Again, for the First Time: Revising Your Dissertation.

And have a look at TWEED’s complete library of resources.