remising the dissertation
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Remixing the Dissertation: 15 Strategies for Cultivating
Deep Revision While Minimizing Writer’s Block
Jason Palmeri(Miami University)
The Journey from Diss to Book
1) Treat Diss as a Commonplace Book
2) Take a year to recover
3) Develop related “side” projects
4) Revisit the Detritus of the Diss
5) Gather new data
6) Use conferences to spur revision
7) Refine your “elevator pitch”
8) Use audience as focusing force
9) Value Informal Composing
10) Radically Re-Arrange the Chapters
11) Reclaim your sense of voice
12) Scaffold your writing “assignment”
13) Kill the internet (temporarily)
14) Form a writing group
15) Write the proposal from scratch
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