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Please see the other pages of this guide for information related to formatting dissertations, copyright, and the OhioLINK upload.
Here are some additional Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about dissertations:
Yes, the dissertation templates are available in DISS-9400 and on the OAS website under Doctoral Studies Handbook Documents. There are separate templates for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods. Please select the appropriate template for your type of dissertation and follow the template requirements for formatting your dissertation.
All completed dissertations by Franklin students are available in the OhioLINK ETD Center database. Use the link below to go straight to Franklin University's dissertations.
You can also find exemplars of outstanding dissertations by looking at the dissertations which have been awarded the Franklin University Dissertation Excellence Award:
Your dissertation will be available in the OhioLINK ETD Center, Proquest Dissertation & Theses Global, and the Doctoral Scholarship Collection in Franklin University's institutional repository, FUSE.
For Proquest, please note that it typically takes Proquest 6-8 weeks to load your dissertation into the database after it has been transferred (transfers occur on the 1st and 15th of each month), but it could take longer during busy times.
Dissertations are uploaded to FUSE at the end of the term in which they were submitted to the OhioLINK ETD Center.
Franklin University Library does not provide or recommend binding services. However, you have several options for getting a bound copy of your electronic dissertation.
Because your paper was uploaded to ProQuest, you may order bound copies from ProQuest. Another widely used online service is Thesis On Demand, which allows you to upload the PDF file of your paper, select binding options, and have the finished volume shipped to you.
Depending on your location, local copy shops or professional book binderies may also be able to work with your file.
If you want to convert your dissertation to a publishable book or article, you might want to discuss your options / next steps with your dissertation chair. The resources below also provide information on how to convert your dissertation to an article or book.
The From Dissertation to Book book linked below includes helpful checklists on page 141-142 going over what is required for a dissertation v. what is required of a book, things not to do when converting your dissertation to a book, and manuscript basics for preparing your book.
Here's some information to help you convert your dissertation to a publishable article or book:
From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition
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When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. "You know something!" I would say if it could hear me. "Now tell it to us in language we can understand!" Since its publication in 2005, From Dissertation to Book has helped thousands of young academic authors get their books beyond the thesis committee and into the hands of interested publishers and general readers. Now revised and updated to reflect the evolution of scholarly publishing, this edition includes a new chapter arguing that the future of academic writing is in the hands of young scholars who must create work that meets the broader expectations of readers rather than the narrow requirements of academic committees. At the heart of From Dissertation to Book is the idea that revising the dissertation is fundamentally a process of shifting its focus from the concerns of a narrow audience--a committee or advisors--to those of a broader scholarly audience that wants writing to be both informative and engaging. William Germano offers clear guidance on how to do this, with advice on such topics as rethinking the table of contents, taming runaway footnotes, shaping chapter length, and confronting the limitations of jargon, alongside helpful timetables for light or heavy revision. Germano draws on his years of experience in both academia and publishing to show writers how to turn a dissertation into a book that an audience will actually enjoy, whether reading on a page or a screen. Germano also acknowledges that not all dissertations can or even should become books and explores other, often overlooked, options, such as turning them into journal articles or chapters in an edited work. With clear directions, engaging examples, and an eye for the idiosyncrasies of academic writing, From Dissertation to Book reveals to recent PhDs the secrets of careful and thoughtful revision--a skill that will be truly invaluable as they add "author" to their curriculum vitae.
The Dissertation-To-Book Workbook
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Writing an academic book is a daunting task. Where to start? This workbook. So, you've written a dissertation. Congratulations! But how do you turn it into a book? Even if you know what to do when revising your dissertation, do you know how to do those things? This workbook by Katelyn E. Knox and Allison Van Deventer, creators of the successful online Dissertation-to-Book Boot Camp, offers a series of manageable, concrete steps with exercises to help you revise your academic manuscript into publishable book form. The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook uses targeted exercises and prompts to take the guesswork out of writing a book. You'll clarify your book's core priorities, pinpoint your organizing principle, polish your narrative arc, evaluate your evidence, and much more. Using what this workbook calls "book questions and chapter answers," you'll figure out how to thread your book's main ideas through its chapters. Then, you'll assemble an argument, and finally, you'll draft any remaining material and revise the manuscript. And most important, by the time you complete the workbook, you'll have confidence that your book works as a book--that it's a cohesive, focused manuscript that tells the story you want to tell. Indispensible to anyone with an academic manuscript in progress, the prompts, examples, checklists, and activities will give you confidence about all aspects of your project--that it is structurally sound, coherent, free of the hallmarks of "dissertationese," and ready for submission to an academic publisher.
If you choose to convert your dissertation to an article, you may also want to contact the journal and inform them that your article is based on a dissertation previously published online in case they use plagiarism-checking software. [Your dissertation is published online in OhioLINK's ETD Center, ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database, and the Franklin University Institutional Repository (FUSE).]
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