ABSTRACT
Many doctoral students aim to produce research articles from their dissertation as the first step in disseminating their research. Reworking a dissertation for publication, then, ‘demands careful selecting and rewriting, as well as the difficult task of figuring out the most important points in the dissertation in order of importance’. One key difference between a dissertation and a book is the audience at which they are aimed. Students' dissertation is essentially written for their examiners even though the feedback their will have been given on it will have been provided by their supervisors. Students should also develop a plan for publishing work from their thesis. In students' dissertation they may have separate chapters for their review of the literature and methodology but in a book they might combine these into a single introductory chapter and they may delete some chapters all together.
