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Don't let the revision process intimidate you any longer. Discover how to successfully transform your first draft into a polished final draft readers wont be able to forget.

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All new Phd's hope that their dissertations can become books. But a dissertation is written for a committee and a book for the larger world. William Germano's From Dissertation to Book is the essential guide for academic writers who want to revise a doctoral thesis for publication. The author of Getting It Published, Germano draws upon his extensive experience in academic publishing to provide writers with a state-of-the-art view of how to turn a dissertation into a manuscript that publishers will notice.

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"The Craft of Editing" is about the craft of editing scientific writing. It is designed to help you - and all those who deal with scientific and technical writing by others in universities, government labs, businesses, or engineering firms - become more effective and more efficient at editing the proposals, theses, journal articles, and reports that cross your desk and which you must approve, grade, or review.

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To many people embarking on a career, as well as to those in the general public with a love of books and reading, publishing has a special mystique...

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"Better Writing Through Editing" teaches intermediate students how to edit their own writing for correct sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and expression.

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Conveniently organized to serve as a training tool for new or improving copy editors, this guide teaches how to best serve clients.