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How to Write a Scholarly Book: Preparing Your Manuscript for Peer Review (hard cover)

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Pages:52
ISBN:1-4955-0338-0
978-1-4955-0338-2
Price:$59.95
The goal of this book is to offer editorial suggestions that will help scholars prepare manuscripts for both peer review and publication. It proposes some issues authors should consider as they engage in the self-critical questionings that are crucial to their revising the text of their manuscripts.

Table of Contents

1. The Scholarly Reader

2. The Contribution to Scholarship

3. The Order of Presentation

4. Providing Clear Directions

5. Offering Evidence

6. Writing in Right-Sized Units

7. Formatting for Readability

8. Proofreading and Copy Editing

9. Titling and Indexing

10. The Peer Evaluation Process

11. How to Find a Publisher