Publishing from a dissertation: A book or articles?

The audiences for a book and for a dissertation are quite different and have to be considered when writing a book based on a dissertation. Many PhD students, however, look to produce research articles from their dissertation rather than a book as the first step in disseminating their research. Converting a dissertation into research articles also requires substantial reworking of dissertation material. This often involves recontextualizing, reframing, reprioritizing, trimming, condensing, and even restructuring. In order to publish a book, the first thing students need to do is write a proposal for the book. There are many factors that need to be considered when submitting a book proposal to a publisher or an article to a peer-reviewed journal. The dissertation needed considerable reworking, and each of the publications needed to be completely rewritten from their original format in the dissertation. The chapter concludes by making suggestions for beginning academic authors wanting to rework their dissertation for publication.