Editing Otherwise: Fresh Approaches to Stories and Settings

As a developmental editor specializing in cultural anthropology, I often work with scholars who are revising their first book from a dissertation. In my work, I often encounter the same mistakes over and over again, so I made this blog post to help writers working on their first academic book. Common dissertation-to-book problems include: Writing too defensively Buried arguments Chapters that still follow thesis structure Why a Dissertation Is Not the Same as a Book The postd