| CODE | DOC1025 | ||||||
| TITLE | Getting Published: Preparing the Book Proposal | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | D - Doctoral Workshops/Symposium | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | Not Applicable | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Doctoral School | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This workshop is intended for doctoral students who are in the final stages of their research or who may have recently submitted their thesis for examination. The workshop comprises two sessions. The first part of the first session provides an overview of current and changing trends in academic publishing in the United Kingdom, the United States, in European contexts, as well as in local ones. It moves on to consider the place of the scholarly book, or monograph, within contemporary academia. Publishers’ expectations concerning a book proposal will then be discussed and workshop participants helped to identify those aspects of their thesis that they might need to revise as they go about adapting it to a form appropriate to the academic book. Participants will be alerted to the timeline management required when preparing a book manuscript, and will be advised about the importance of fair, credible and effective pitching of their project. An important aspect of the workshop is close analysis of different book proposal forms across various academic publishers and presses, and the factors to bear in mind when filling in one of these forms. Matters of good practice and professional ethics within academic publishing will also be discussed. The second session will take place in a timely manner after the first, allowing participants to have prepared in the meantime a draft book proposal document. Feedback on the proposals submitted will be provided, with areas for improvement identified and addressed. Outcomes: By the end of this workshop, the doctoral researcher should be: - more informed about realities of academic publishing across a range of contexts, particularly relating to monographs and critical collections; - able to identify the ways in which his/her thesis will need to be adapted for consideration as a monograph, in view of the different genre expectations concerning the doctoral thesis and the academic book; - better placed to assess the appeal and viability of any book project that might emerge from his/her doctoral thesis; - better placed to assess the ways in which the project can be effectively pitched to publishers; - aware of aspects of timeline management that need to be borne in mind when drawing up a book proposal; - aware of the factors to bear in mind when filling out the different parts of an academic publisher’s book proposal form; - able to identify aspects of his/her broader research (beyond the thesis) that might need to feature in his/her book proposal to make it appealing for publishers; - able to put together a solid book proposal for a single-authored volume and for an edited collection of essays; - aware of forms of good and ethical practice in book publishing. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Registration for this workshop is only open to candidates who are in their final year of studies. Applicants are kindly requested to submit to the tutor an abstract/summary of their thesis by Friday 1 March 2019 through the following e-mail address: doctoralschool@um.edu.mt Timetable Details Semester 2 Occ A - Part 1 - Date: 28 Mar 2019; Time: 9:00 - 12:00; Duration: 3 hours Occ A - Part 2 - Date: 2 May 2019; Time: 9:00 - 12:00; Duration: 3 hours Occ AE - Part 1 - Date: 22 Mar 2019; Time: 17:00 - 20:00; Duration: 3 hours Occ AE - Part 2 - Date: 3 May 2019; Time: 17:00 - 20:00; Duration: 3 hours |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Workshop | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Ivan Callus |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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