Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done by Sonja K. Foss

By Sonja K. Foss

Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s advisor to a performed Dissertation is a guide that is helping scholars effectively entire their dissertations. It makes use of a metaphor of shuttle to border the dissertation strategy as a thrilling journey of twenty-nine steps that may be accomplished in lower than 9 months. Designed to be used by means of scholars in all disciplines and for either quantitative and qualitative dissertations, the ebook indicates concrete and effective procedures for finishing these elements of the dissertation the place scholars are inclined to get caught: conceptualizing an issue, constructing a pre-proposal, writing a literature evaluate, writing an offer, amassing and interpreting facts, and writing the final chapter.

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How to Publish High-Quality Research: Discovering, Building, by Jeff Joireman

By Jeff Joireman

In compelling, simple prose, the authors clarify how younger students can create top of the range examine that attains a excessive impression. They describe how you can generate powerful, unique principles, tips on how to layout experiments, and the way to arrange findings into transparent and compelling learn articles. They then learn the paintings of widely-admired students who've built leading edge review instruments and learn equipment, and researchers whose paintings has shifted paradigms, bridged disciplines, and challenged long-held assumptions. all through, the authors show an infectious enthusiasm for colleagues whose paintings has encouraged them of their personal careers.

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Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 That Sold and Why by Jeff Herman, Deborah Levine Herman

By Jeff Herman, Deborah Levine Herman

Книга Write the fitting e-book idea: 10 That bought and Why, second version Write the suitable booklet thought: 10 That offered and Why, second EditionКниги Менеджмент Автор: Jeff Herman, Deborah Levine Herman Год издания: 2001 Формат: pdf Издат.:Wiley Страниц: 208 Размер: 1,3 ISBN: 0471353124 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: zero) Оценка:Want to submit your e-book? research how—it’s more uncomplicated than you think that! Charismatic authors and literary brokers Jeff Herman and Deborah Levine Herman have effectively offered hundreds of thousands of titles and learned—through trial and error—how to jot down a perfect publication concept that publishers can’t withstand. you can now make the most of their exertions and publishing savvy. during this new version, they provide tips and recommendation that might motivate, teach, and, most significantly, provide the valuable side to get your publication released. They clarify: • how you can form your inspiration and create a identify • how one can get to understand the industry and festival • pointers on writing an efficient define, question letter, and pattern bankruptcy • The artwork and technology of fiction and nonfiction ebook proposals • How ten genuine proposals (included right here) have been effectively bought to publishers—and why "A submission from Jeff Herman regularly will get moved to the head . . . his new e-book will allow you to flow to the top."—Frederic W. Hills vp, Simon & Schuster "This booklet will take writers to the top point of thought writing and success."—Roger Cooper caliber Paperback booklet membership "If you will want your concept to ignite a hectic editor’s curiosity, learn this book."—Adrienne Hickey Senior Acquisitions Editor, AMACOM Books

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Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books by Harold D. Underdown

By Harold D. Underdown

“Honest and certain… every little thing approximately writing for kids there's to know.”
—Jane Yolen, writer

here's the excellent consultant to writing, publishing, and promoting for the ever-expanding and consistently fascinating children’s market—now in a brand new and up-to-date 3rd variation.

• comprises new chapters on self-publishing and on "how to decide on a how-to", plus revision and updates throughout
• deals sensible recommendation on getting started--and on facing out-of-print books
• Covers photograph books, bankruptcy books, nonfiction, middle-grade and younger novels, and customary codecs and genres
• unearths what occurs inside of a kid's publishing corporation, and gives information in operating with an editor
• pattern disguise and question letters, manuscript structure, word list, and suggested assets in an intensive appendix
• Plus details on brokers, contracts, copyright, advertising, and extra

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Renaissance Paratexts by Helen Smith, Louise Wilson

By Helen Smith, Louise Wilson

In his 1987 paintings Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette demonstrated actual shape as the most important to the creation of that means. right here, specialists in early smooth publication historical past, materiality, and rhetorical tradition current a sequence of compelling explorations of the structure of early smooth books. The essays problem and expand Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as either a cloth and a conceptual class. Renaissance Paratexts takes a clean examine overlooked websites, from imprints to endings, and from working titles to printers' plants. individuals' bills of the making and movement of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the textual content, and the interaction among examining and seeing. As a lot a historical past of misreading as of interpretation, the gathering presents novel views at the applied sciences of studying, and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating, and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.

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The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian by Kristine Hughes

By Kristine Hughes

Revered writer and historian Kristine Hughes illuminates each point of lifestyles, love and society that characterised this interesting period. Writers will shop hours of worthwhile learn time and accomplish old accuracy as they reference slice-of-life evidence, anecdotes, first-hand debts and timelines. 20 illustrations .

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A history of the book in American Volume 3, The industrial by Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum,

Contributors:
Susan Belasco, college of Nebraska
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University
Kenneth E. chippie, Newton middle, Massachusetts
Scott E. Casper, college of Nevada, Reno
Jeannine Marie DeLombard, college of Toronto
Ann Fabian, Rutgers University
Jeffrey D. Groves, Harvey Mudd College
Paul C. Gutjahr, Indiana University
David D. corridor, Harvard Divinity School
David M. Henkin, collage of California, Berkeley
Bruce Laurie, college of Massachusetts, Amherst
Eric Lupfer, Humanities Texas
Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers University
John Nerone, college of Illinois
Stephen W. Nissenbaum, college of Massachusetts
Lloyd Pratt, Michigan nation University
Barbara Sicherman, Trinity College
Louise Stevenson, Franklin & Marshall College
Amy M. Thomas, Montana country University
Tamara Plakins Thornton, nation collage of recent York, Buffalo
Susan S. Williams, Ohio country University
Michael Winship, collage of Texas at Austin

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