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Turning your LAW PhD Thesis into a Book (LAW-DS-OUTDIS-24)

LAW-DS-OUTDIS-24

Description

lang="nl" xml:lang="nl">Course overview
The purpose of this elective course is to give third and fourth-year EUI Law researchers expert guidance, language advice, and a framework for proposing their dissertation project for publication with a scholarly press.
Participants will be asked to do preparatory work before each workshop and will have the opportunity to submit and receive detailed feedback on their proposal and a revised sample chapter.

Content and dates
The course delivery comprises three half-day workshops on the following:

1. (Monday 27 January, 2:00 to 5:00pm). Processes, protocols, and presses: Participants will consider how to choose the right press for their monograph project and how the process of reaching out to editors works; also, what to expect in terms of timeline and, eventually, a contract.

2. (Monday 24 February, 2:00 to 5:00pm). The genre of the Book Proposal:  We will discuss each of the standard elements of the book proposal: the outline (or rationale), the comparative (or competing) titles section, and the chapter summaries; by looking at previous, successful book proposals. Participants will analyse how writing about the book in the proposal differs from the dissertation’s self-description, and how the book’s contribution is more oriented towards the marketplace of books than a singular contribution to knowledge.

3. (Monday 24 March, 2:00 to 6:00pm). Revising a chapter: This section will copy the approach of the existing course taught on the MWP: comparing material from a recently published monograph with the corresponding chapter from the dissertation. Participants will analyse organisational and stylistic changes between the two. They will submit their own work and receive feedback.

Submissions and feedback (under development)
Participants have ideally two opportunities to receive two rounds of feedback: one for the thesis/book proposal and one the revised chapter. For each, the teachers will organise a peer feedback event (based on our established writers’ group format), and later the participants can submit their proposal and/or sample chapter for detailed feedback

The maximum number of participants for this seminar is 10 researchers.

First, Second & Third Term: registration from 26 to 30 September

 

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